If it's a Tim Burton film then there will likely be a kind parent, a flashback scene, a young outcast, dead dogs, swirls in patterns, an unusual love story and also the same actors you have seen many times before as Tim Burton is also known to re-cast his favourites with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter appearing in the most (8 and 7 respectively), shortly followed by Christopher Lee (6), Michael Gough (5) and Winona Ryder (3). But since when is familiarity a bad thing? It might supposedly breed contempt, but it also breeds comfort: you wouldn't criticise Van Gogh for painting sunflowers again...
