Ed Wood is a great movie, it tells the story of a morally and culturally broke yet enthusiastic filmmaker in 1950's Hollywood. He has a collection of friends who each have their own stories and go on their own journeys. Burton excels at telling these side stories and giving them depth, humanity and comedy through different means.
I love all the subtextual things the feeling that if you follow each sub character you would have an entire other film and that this movie just captures this fragmented portion of the characters lives. You get all of these little glimpses of their other lives, one of the things I loved was how the first wife covered all of his idealism and they had that co-dependent relationship but when it failed he moved on to a different woman who demonstrated a different side of co-dependence. While we never find out what was wrong with her father we the audience can just use our imaginations as to what hell her life was before Ed and how Ed improved on it.
Visually I love the look and feel of the film, you have this great home made cheap quality of the film making on this backdrop of luscious period piece Los Angeles. Burton always gives you something cool to look at while he subtly breaks your heart with how these people gleefully use each other.
My only real quibble with the film is that for half of the movie it feels like it's a buddy picture with Bela Lugosi and then he passes away and we just move onto the final picture. The film has three endings and I felt like they picked the wrong one(I would have gone with Well's in the bar, but ah well)