I haven't read the book, and I haven't seen the older version, so my expectations on these parts are pretty low.
Apart from having missed out on some american pop-culture, I have seen almost all of Tim Burton's films. 
As he's one of my favorite directors, and Johnny Depp is one of a handful of actors I would see almost any movie in which he's in, I'm anticipating this. But as I'm on vacation I probably won't have any opportunity to see it before October, when I can only hope, it will still be playing in german theaters.
But lucky me, another Burton film is coming up this year, and as I think Nightmare before Christmas is "his" best film (I know he hasn't directed it), the stop-motion "Corpse Bride" hopefully is as good.
Tim, keep 'em coming.