Personally I see nothing wrong with a person not wanting to compromise thier creative vision too much. Buffy (both movie and t.v. show) are meant to be something akin to a dark comedy, but the movie lost the dark edge it was intended to have.
Incidently he also wrote the movie.
Sorry, I appreciate your interest in the series, but I was unfortunate enough to see a couple of the final episodes of this series recently in syndication and they weren't 'dark comedy', they were just poorly scripted and painfully stupid.
Like I said, they took the TV series too seriously.
