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Summary: The Legend of the Snow Prince
Review: This is the movie that made me a Timmy. Tim Burton's vision of a modern day fairy tale succeeds in capturing the essence and heart of the dream-like world we visited every night before bedtime when we were still kids. Johnny Depp, one of Hollywood's most underrated actors, delivers an outstanding performance as the lonely hero. The DVD's features fail in comparison to the bonus materials you might get from other DVDs, but the exquisite animated 3D Menu and the film itself should be enough reason to add this gem to your collection.
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Summary: The "Dream Team" at its best
Review: Edward Scissorhands is an excellent piece of work. The story is an enchanting fairytale, pieced together by what I like to call the dream team. This is Tim Burton and Danny Elfman, and Johnny Depp to boot, all at their best. The music, haunting and also seductive, spins a dreamlike background that adds to the story. The direction is so well-planned, the story written so well, and all the parts played with unbelievable skill. From the very beginning of the film, it draws you into a dream, and leaves you there even after the last credits have rolled. This is everything a good movie should be.
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Summary: One of my Favorite Directors -- and favorite movies!
Review: Tim Burton is one of my favorite directors. He did the impossible -- made me like a Batman movie! But, I think Edward Scissorhands (along with the Nightmare Before Christmas) is one of his best works. The visuals are stunning, the story grabs your attention and won't let go, and each role is perfectly cast. This is the sort of movie that defines age or region or gender. I haven't met a person yet who didn't *love* it, from foreign visitors, to my young son, to my grandparents. Jennifer
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Summary: A Misunderstood Hero
Review: This is a great story of a brave kid who wants to be normal, but keeps being misunderstood. It's full of symbolism and funny, off-beat comentary on modern, suburban life.
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Summary: Wonderful.
Review: This is a wonderful film. I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember I liked it except that it was very dark. But thats what makes this movie so special. It has darkness and lightness all melded into one.
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Summary: My favorite movie
Review: Not just my favorite genre film, my favorite film period. Nothing can explain the emotional attachment one will have to this film after a few viewings. It may not hit you the first time, but trust me this film is worth the time you put into it. If you have an emotional bone in your body then buy this film. Plus, it is directed by Tim Burton...'nuff said.
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Summary: Strange, Creepy, Wonderful, and Heart-wrenching, All At Once
Review: This Tim Burton film is very strange and is a weird but tender-hearted, albeit twisted fairy tale combined with a horror movie. Johnny Depp plays a young man created, a la Frankenstein, by Vincent Price's quintessential mad-scientist. Before Price (in one of his last roles, which is an homage to his career) can finish him, he dies, leaving Edward with no last name and with makeshift hands composed of the only things available - scissors, razors, shears, and other sharp instruments. Having lived a completely isolated life in a decrepit Gothic castle atop a hill, Depp goes on living his sad, lonely, empty life -- until the Avon lady shows up. The Avon Lady, oblivious to Edward's strangeness and feeling pity for him, brings him home to meet the family and the neighbors. Everyone in the neighborhood adjacent to Edward's ancient Gothic castle lives in a fifties-style homes, dress in fifities-style clothes, and maintain fifties-style families (Dad works, Mom keeps house, kids get into mild mischief and then clean their rooms). The entire neighborhood adopts Edward, for a while, as if he were an exotic and cuddly (except for his hands) pet. This becomes especially easy when they find out that Edward can use his scissorhands to do incredibly good and incredibly fast topiary (shrub-sculpturing). The honeymoon lasts until they realize that Edward isn't their passive, docile pet, but is actually a person. The clue is when they notice that Edward has noticed the Avon Lady's daughter (politely, awkwardly, in a totally G-rated way). The story reverts back to Frankensteinism, and Edward gets driven back to the castle. I'll leave the rest of the ending for you. Johnny Depp is superb in creating the freaky, gentle, naive, and caring Edward, who looks perpetually lost. The setting is perfect. The result is perfectly weird - and weirdly perfect.
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Summary: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.
Review: OK: How many people saw this film when they found out a very young Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys made a small appearance in the beginning of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS? Well, I did. And I'll be the first to admit it. So I ended up borrowing this at the library. But it turned out I enjoyed EWARD SCISSORHANDS a lot. Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder are excellent, not to mention the rest of the cast. And Tim Burton is a fantastic director. It was kind of strange, though...the typical Johnny Depp film. But I still thought it was really good. It may not have been the best film ever made, but it was definitely entertaining. If you haven't seen this film then I definitely recommend it.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I thought this movie was awesome! i've seen it a lot and never got to see it all, but I finally did.Johnny Depp was perfect for this movie, and you have to feel bad for Edward Scissorhands. I think he did a better job in this movie than A Nightmare on Elm Street. This movie is about an inventor who created Edward but gave him scissors instead of hands(beat that, Freddy Krueger!) and then the inventor died. A lady finds him up in the castle and lets him stay in her daughter's bedroom. The family treats him nice, but Kim is scared of him. Then she realizes he is not so bad and falls in love with him.The neighbors don't really like him, and poor Edward is all alone until they see what he can do! the ending makes me very sad because he's still up there in his castle. Maybe they should make Edward Scissorhands 2? I recommend this movie to everyone
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Summary: Hauntingly Beautiful
Review: I love this film for its artistic and humorous look at the late sixties early seventies. I well filmed movie with greeat contrasts of color and lack and whites. Enough of the artsy fartsy stuff. This is a great movie (probably Johnny Depps Best). I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a splash of mysticism and romance in their viewing habits.
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