Best movie of this year hands down!

Truly Dreadful Film

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I give it 4 stars for a few nice photo stills, haircuts, trimmed dogs and shrubs. Don't look for character development or an interesting plot because there's none of both.

It's tough now, to look back and imagine a time when Tim Burton was a gothic indie darling and Johnny Depp an enigmatic underexposed young actor, but indeed once they were - and Edward Scissorhands is probably the apex of that time in both their careers. Having not seen it for quite a while, a recent one night cinema showing gave me the opportunity to reappraise it as the jaded adult that I am now. Peggy Boggs (Dianne Wiest) decides to visit the grim dilapidated mansion that towers over the American suburban estate where she resides, as part of her Avon cosmetics round. There she discovers Edward (Depp), a creation of the inventor who previously owned the mansion, who passed away before he could provide Edward with the human hands to replace the scissors that make up his current appendages. Though Edward is initially popular in the suburbs, misunderstanding and prejudice soon start to raise their heads, particularly around Peggy's teenage daughter (Winona Ryder). The film really in unmistakably Tim Burton. The decision to use practical sets and models rather than CGI was a good choice, as the film still looks great. Maybe the aging prosthetics on Ryder in the opening and closing wrap around scenes doesn't look that impressive, given what CG can do there - but that's the exception rather than the rule. There's an unreal fantasy aspect to the town and its looming impossibly stylised mountain range that is beautiful and memorable. The costume and hair design is brilliant too. Danny Elfman's score too is another iconic collaboration with Burton, though he chooses a more orchestral and sweeping pieces here, over the "Plinky Plonky" themes he was often providing at the time. The story is a little undercooked, a variation on both "Frankenstein" and "Beauty and the Beast" it could have done with another couple of moments to heighten the believability of the love story, and the way that the town turns on Edward, once he rejects the advances of Kathy Baker's bored housewife. The script though is good and often laugh out loud funny. Alan Arkin steals a lot of the film as Peg's husband, entirely nonplussed about the events going on around him. Vincent Price too, with his glorious cadence is great in his scenes. Sad both in terms of the actual plot and when viewed against the triumvirate of misfires Burton would direct, the lost years of Winona Ryder's career and the eventual overexposure of Depp; "Edward Scissorhands" is imperfect but beautiful. Timeless but evocative of that period in Burton's career. Artificial yet genuine and you should definitely see it.

Honestly, I've watched many many movies by far in life, and I can say that I've never seen anything even similar to this. It reminded me of the fact that movies are a type of art, too, which isn't really represented by the newest ones. This film reminded me of old Disney style so much, it's a real fairytale, completely fantastic. I would say it's unrealistically realistic. When you watch it, you'll understand what I mean. Somehow it mixes unreal motives, events, places in the modern day stage. No matter how much fantasy is there, the message is human and it refers to problems many people who aren't mystical creatures face with today. Fitting in is all that it's about. And it's all so beautifully blended in. The cast is iconic, bringing the story to life. What especially amazed me is the music. I can only say that it's the best movie soundtrack ever made, a living fairytale. The screenplay and effects are undeniably amazing, they made me feel the whole story. The movie definitely made me cry in the end, but I feel like the tears were so unpurposely taken out of me, unlike those movies where you actually see that they are made for people to cry. All in all I believe this movie is a real classic for all generations, all times. It is pure art at its finest. A film to remeber - a mustwatch!

What's did a DVD in ours lives,l had watched a little portion of this movie in the past on TV and didn't able to give my vote,so yesterday l watched it in plenty way and found it wonderful,the genius of Tim Burton is really endless,he created a modern fairy tale to all ages,touching using a boy without malice,indeed a pure heart,when he meets a people he wants make part of a mankind,but the time will prove who really are this normal people....Burton reachs the target in this fabulous that seems the Beauty and the Beast........great in a dark atmosphere!!Resume:First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5