If you haven't seen it, you ought to see Big Fish. It's very visually trippy, but in a different way from Burton's usual, and it's mostly character-driven. Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney are both amazing in it. I found it much more emotionally engaging than Burton's usual. Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands, despite their weird trappings, are also very human stories (and, yes, the real Ed Wood was about that weird).
Ed Wood was much stranger. He also ended his life in porn and penury. The film was pretty santized.