Sorry, Despite What You've Heard...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is actually a comedy. It was written as a satire. I can't tell you how sick I am of new incarnations of the story being told as if it were a horror story. It's not. "Sleepy Hollow," while by no means a bad movie, wasn't true to Irving's original intent at all. Nor was the Disney cartoon, or the inumerable stage performances of it I've seen. They're all horror stories. Washington Irving intended the story as satire, but the commentary has been lost in translation more times than Britney Spears has "lost" her virginity (I mean, come on, Britney; how dumb do you think we are?) Making a scary movie based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the artistic equivalent of making Monty Python's "Dead Parrot sketch" into a dramatic, hard-hitting, gritty, human interest art film. Just let it be, man. You don't have to update everything. You know, some stuff was actually good enough the first time around. I don't hear too many people saying Beethoven's Fifth was "alright for how old it is."