Pushing Daises is the over the top story of the Pie Maker and his bizarre gift to reanimate the dead. This Tim Burtonesque show is filled with odd characters and bold colors that are very reminiscence of the great French film Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. There are a lot of reds and greens in Pushing Daisies-and there is a brilliant voice over filling in the many gaps in the story. The basic plotline of Pushing Daises is that The Pie Maker has teamed up with Emerson Cod, P.I. and together they solve crimes. This is made somewhere easier by…
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Pushing Daisies-Looks Like Tim Burton
Pushing Daisies is so Tim Burton-esque that I looked for his name in the credits. It has all of his signature elements, bright colors, quirky special effects, slightly odd looking characters, little gimmicks, and witty bits of business about bringing the dead back to life. There is also a very Willy Wonka like voice over, but then, it is a lot like the voice over in Babe as well. Like the Three Rules of Gremlins, there are Three Rules of Bringing the Dead Back to Life-One touch brings them back to life, another touch kills them again, don’t touch them…