Burton’s narration is a thing of beauty in that film. Oh, if he had only sustained his greatness and not gone for the dirty lucre!
Whoa, what ever could have happened to the last part of your sentence? ;P :D
He gets me every time. I would like to think it's due to his acting, but Burton had something else, some intangible something. Maybe it's as simple as his being Welsh. From earliest childhood I heard all about my Welsh roots, about where "we" were from, so it's entirely possible. Yet who can resist his delivery, his on-screen intensity.
The critique given an artist as being so good that people would pay to hear them recite the telephone directory sometimes isn't just a catchphrase.