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Summary: A modern fairytail done perfectly
Review: Edward Scissorhands is with out a doubt a modern classic. A dark yet comical love story. This movie is not to be missed.
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Summary: A Nonconfromist Living in a Conformist Society
Review: Tim Burton has done a great job in making a movie. The movie Edward Scissorhands has great plot movement as well as a good sense of anger, sadness, and lost love. When Edward moves in, he is simply trying to fit in with the rest of society. This relates to the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It talks about a nonconformist trying to fit in with a conformist society, as well as lost love and anger. The main problem with the movie was how the ending went. It lacks a general idea why Edward is like what he is today as well as a good explanation why Edward doesn't come back to the town anymore. Other than that, this is a really good family movie.
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Summary: The Number One best movie I have ever seen!
Review: Don't be turned off by the fantasy-like look of this amazing film. This has recently become my number one all time favorite movie. This movie captures the essence of innocence and cruelty. Although the main character in this movie (Edward Scissorhands) is a fantasy and people may get the impression of a character unable to relate this, it is not so. In fact, I have never cried harder during a movie.
Tim Burton, the best director ever, (look for his other films) creates the perfect cast, setting, and plot in this movie. The soundtrack by Danny Elfman,( look for the soundtrack) creates the most beautiful music ever in a movie. You can hear the drama and comedy flowing through the music. This is the most touching, sweetest, and the most beautiful fairy tale ever. This is a captivating tale of romance, comedy, and drama. Just think, a story of someone who loves and is so gentle on the inside, but has sharp knives on the outside. Of all the movies I have ever seen, I recommend this the most.
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Summary: It's great!!
Review: I wanted to see this movie because of the music. I bought the soundtrack and just absolutely LOVED the music! So I thought I should at least rent the film, and now I LOVE the movie too! I really had no clue what this movie was going to be about, except that this guy would have scissors for hands. But then as I sat there on my bean bag chair and watched it I just fell in love with the movie! Johnny Depp does a BRILLIANT job playing Edward! He should have won an Academy Award. If you haven't seen this movie, you must! Bring a tissue box with you though, it is a bit of a tear-jerker. I never get sick of this movie, I've watched it about five times in the last three days. It's come to be one of my favorites!
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Summary: One of my Favorite Movies.
Review: The performances of Depp and Ryder {Ryder is always special} are top. The others are also fine.
The soundtrack accompanies the feature well.
Very weird and beautiful. The word 'haunting' comes to mind.
Incredibly sorrowfull. Maybe I'm just too sensitive.
Just the right touch of humor.
Social commentary?
Grounded in realism but still fantastic.
Never sentimental.
Very visual imagery.
I despise giving away any plots; you just have to watch...
Hope to have convinced you to do so.
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Summary: A magical movie from Tim Burton.
Review: Tim Burton's fantasy drama is about a Avon selling lady that stumbles into an abandoned mansion that is occupied by a lonely robotic man with Scissors for hands called "Edward" ( Johnny Depp), she takes him home and keeps him as he has many adventures in the suburbs including falling in love with the lady's daughter ( Wynona Ryder). The cast is perfect including Alan Arkin and Anthony Michael Hall, the acting is terrific and so is the script. This is truly one of Tim's finest movies.
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Summary: 100% PURE Entertainment!
Review: This has to be ONE of the best movies ever made! Tim Burton has SUCH an imagination, and this film prooves it! It has something for the whole family! It is a fantasy movie, and a twisted fairy tale, or perhaps a comedy, maybe even a romance, but no matter WHAT you wanna call it, it is still one of the biggest tear jerkers that i have ever seen! It is such a sad movie that touches the heart AND the soul! It is definetly a MUST SEE!
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Summary: Shout-out for Caroline
Review: 175 reviews and only ONE mentions Caroline Thompson? Blasphemy! People, Tim may have come up with a two-line story ("There's this boy, he has scissors for hands...") but somebody had to WRITE those one hundred and twenty-odd pages, grow that logline into a shootable script full of nuance and magic and symbol, and that somebody is Caroline Thompson. (She also wrote the script for "Nightmare Before Christmas" and is, I'm convinced, responsible for the better jokes in "Addams Family I") So many reviews here mention "the story"...without a script there would have been no story to film. So make that Burton-Elfman-Depp-THOMPSON, if you don't mind. So props to you, Caroline (and you, too, Denise Di Novi!), dark national treasures that you are. Looking forward to many more.
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Summary: My Impreesion of Burton's Edward Scissorhands
Review: I saw Edward Scissorhands when I was twelve years old,and fell in love with the originality, beauty,and artistry of the story.Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson did a great job with this movie,and the acting(mainly Depp and Ryder) was superb.
Although parts of the movie tend to go unexplained(in the Ice Dance scene,where did Edward get the big block of ice??), the pure creativity makes up for them ten times over.
Symbolism reigns.Watch for hearts and cookies;they play a huge role in the story and pop up again and again. Also, the contrasts between what is arguably the world's most perfect neighborhood and the castle and Edward are dramatic, and highlight the character's desire(and failure) to belong in a colorful world of happiness and heartache.
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Summary: "Edward Scissorhands" is a Masterpiece
Review: "Edward Scissorhands" was the Inventor's (Vincent Price) last experiment he didn't get to finish. As an outcast living in a gigantic castle above a 1950's suburb, Edward met a woman named Peg (Dianne Wiest). This overly kind Avon lady brought him down to her home to enrich his complexion and get rid of his ghastly scars that covered his pale face. He had scissors as hands and that brought plenty of attention from the local housewives. A religious woman thought that the devil had summoned a demon to walk among them (poor Edward). But the others discovered a raw talent in him after he had cut some shrubbery in Peg's backyard. His artistic flair sprouted as he cut women's hair, dog hair and constructed ice sculptures. Fame called his name as he appeared on a television show and a barbershop would open just for him. Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder) had fallen in love with the isolated "man," but they could never be together for society had turned against him. He had been framed for breaking and entering into Kim's sadistic boyfriend's house. Years had passed after the psycho boyfriend was murdered and Edward was in seclusion once again, but still sculpting Kim's angelic features with his hands. This is a magical fairy tale movie that will leave anyone crying for weeks. Kleenex boxes never ran out so fast. It'll feel like a flash flood had run amok in your house. "Edward Scissorhands" is one of my favorite movies and it's one of Tim Burton's best.
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