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Summary: Pathetic Allegory or Mediocre Satire?
Review: Here is a review that lends credence to viewer/reader theory. The first time I saw Edward Scissorhands, I saw it as an allegory. Viewed within this framework, it is a film with nothing but the clichés of the Hollywood far-left worldview: the misunderstood, outcast artist unable to communicate to the world except through his art; the ultra-Brady Bunch peasantry to whom the artist tries to communicate; the nearly insane religious element. As an allegory, it was really pathetic stuff: one star. The second time I watched it, years later, I saw it as satire. Could Burton be witty enough to parody the Hollywood elite this way? Does he recognize and lampoon the anti-religious bigotry so prevalent among his colleagues? Are those who don't see it really the numb-brains who live in the pastel-colored rubber-stamp suburb? Viewing Burton's creation from this framework significantly improved the picture - three stars. I give the film the mean of the two scores.
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Summary: Even after more than a decade, this movie is purely magical!
Review: From the first time I saw the preview in the theatre, I sensed this movie would be something special. Each subsequent time I watch it, those feelings are revisited. Having read that Tom Cruise was first contacted to play the part of Edward, I cannot imagine anyone but Mr. Depp having brought such understated emotion to such a unique role. This movie is Tim Burton at his absolute best. The supporting cast is superb. The sets and scenery are timeless. This is a movie that runs the entire viewing spectrum and will be at the top of the list of my all-time favorites.
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Summary: Simply The Most Beautiful of all Tim Burton Movies
Review: When I first saw Edward Scissorhands back around 1991, I thought it was going to be so dull, and so stupid. But from then on till now, I hold respect up to one of the most dramatic and beautiful movies of all time. Combining the perfect talents of Johnny Depp and Wynona Ryder along with a fantastic music score by Danny Elfman, Edward Scissorhands is sure to bring laughs, cries, and above all, the most rewarding time watching a film, then you ever had before! BUY THIS FILM!
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Summary: A wonderful story
Review: This movie is really very sweet and funny. Most people I know have this feeling that it's going to be about some serial killer or it's just "too weird", but the a big point of the movie is not to judge people by what they look like. Edward is also a very kind person and is NOT a serial killer. It really is a great film.
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Summary: An Edward Scissorhands Review
Review: Edward Scissorhands is the archetypical tale of transformation, and of the transforming power of love. A "mechanized" young man has scissors for hands because his inventor (played by the late Vincent Price) dies before he is able to complete his work. Subsequently he lives over an extended period of time in the darkness and isolation of the castle in which he was created, until one day a kind woman from the suburban community below visits in the hope of finding new clients for her Avon business. Struck by his isolation and unkempt appearance, she takes him home to her family in an effort to care for him. The adventure begins. The young man discovers he has the capacity for love as well as the hate love can generate. His love for the woman's beautiful teen daughter, Kim, flowers. As their love painfully progresses, they mature, she from a somewhat self-centered girl into a caring young adult, and he from an underdeveloped inexperienced humanoid into a more mature, caring creature. The viewers discover that his incompleteness resides not in his hands but in his heart. This, however, is remedied through Kim. The transforming power of the love he has for Kim manifests itself in his art, in the explosive beauty of his ice sculptures, and the attending snow flakes he produces as he carves the forms he cares for. Kim, for her part, is transformed into an elegant ballerina as she dances thru the falling snow. In the end, the suburban community rejects his presence, primarily because he cannot be formed into its image. He flees back to the castle where he is destined to remain from then on. His return to the castle can be seen as less of a retreat than as an acceptance of his place in the scheme of things, evidence of his transformation. The castle then becomes a place not of isolation, but a place where his physical limitations are transformed into gifts, where he continues generating his sculptures while showering the community below with snow. The love between Kim and him is sustained in a timeless manner as is revealed at the beginning and end of the tale. In the final analysis, Edward becomes more human than many of his human counterparts in the community . If anything is incomplete, it is this: this wonderful tale demands a sequel where Kim's granddaughter, introduced at the beginning of the film, matures into her 30s and becomes a New York CEO. Her rising career is suddenly interrupted one day after glimpsing a small newspaper clip on the back page of the local paper reporting that snows have stopped falling in her hometown. In defiance of her scepticism and disillusionment over her hometown's narrowmindedness and gossipy proclivities, one of the reasons for her departure to New York, she returns to seek Edward in the castle, seeking the truth of his existence and should he exist, to help him if she can. She fears that if he does exist, he might be breaking down. She wishes to confirm to him her deceased grandmother's love for him, as revealed in a secret diary. She finds him somewhat rusted and immobile, in a dark corner. They become friends. He questions her about death, and whether or not he has a soul. She replies that she doesn't know, but that if he does, she is sure he will see Kim again. The granddaughter attempts to save him from breakdown by secretly calling in a robotics expert. Unfortunately, he cannot help because Edward's inventor left incomplete records of his work. In the end, Edward asks for one thing, to be given hands. The expert in an attempt to be of some help succeeds in this endeavor. Edward soon thereafter stops functioning. They place him in a box which they bury in the garden grounds. Some days later, on Christmas day, the granddaughter decides to return to her busy corporate life in New York, but as she departs her parent's home to catch the taxi for the evening flight , it begins to snow. Moved to tears, she begins to dance as her grandmother once did. She immediately decides to quite her job, to remain and convert the castle overlooking the community into an art museum in memory of her Grandmother and Edward. Story ends. P.S. Johnny Depp must return to play this last role.
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Summary: I'm in awe! A very touching movie!
Review: I've known about "Edward Scissorhands" for as long as I can remember (I was an infant when it came out) but I never had any interest in seeing it. Then last week, I was watching the FOX special, "Greatest Christmas moments of all time" and they included some parts from this film. I realized that I really HAD to see it! The only knowledge I had of it was my mom telling me that when my older brother saw it in the theatres, he came out very quiet. When she asked him how it was, he just said, "It was sad". As soon as the movie started, I was a little hesitant. There showed an old woman tucking her granddaughter into bed. The granddaughter points out that it's snowing outside, and asks why. I believe they live in California. The old woman replies it's because of a man named Edward. Somehow I could already tell it would be very sad. She continues, saying that long ago there was a scientist who tried to create a person. Very much like Frankenstein, I guess. The person he named Edward and he had sharp shears for temporary hands. But when the scientist dies suddenly, Edward is left alone, still having the strange scissorhands. Thus continues the story. It cuts to an Avon saleswoman walking up to a pastel house to try to sell make-up. After having no luck, she decides to try and make a sale at the big gloomy mansion at the top of a mountain, where Edward lives of course. Though she is frightened by Edward at first, she soon realizes that he is very innocent and shy. And she takes him home with her. The rest of the movie is what happens when Edward meets Suburbia in the early 60's. This includes waterbeds, dogs, nosy neighbors, jealous boys, and the teenage daughter (Winona Ryder) of the woman that took him in. Edward himself is a very sweet character. He's just so innocent, but he's not by any means stupid. He can talk, though he hardly ever chooses to. Johnny Depp does a wonderful job as playing him. In one part of the movie, Winona's character whispers to Edward whom she loves, "Hold me". He trys to wrap the scissors around her without harming her, but answers very quietly and simply, "I can't". Just looking at the cover of "Edward Scissorhands" with that depressed look on his face makes me want to cry. The night after I first watched it (just last month), I sat up in my room thinking, "Why couldn't they just give him hands?" and then after thinking over some scenes in the movie, I thought just for a split second, "Wait, maybe I could go to that town. Edward would still be in his castle!" and then remembered it was just a movie. There ISN'T an Edward. Edward is Johnny Depp in a wig and make-up. That castle isn't real either. But yet, I felt all of the character's emmotions so strongly! Especially Johnny Depp's with his awkward movements and odd appearance. This movie made me a big fan of his. Depp sheads all of his "normalness" and BECOMES Edward. He "becomes" all his roles, and I shudder to think what this movie would have become if Tom Cruise played Edward instead. They were actually considering him! This is film is a rare wonder. It has a few jokes, but it's mostly a drama. The acting is wonderful by everyone, especially Depp (as I said before) and Ryder. It's very sweet and touching. Tim Burton, like always, brings great directing and visual scenery to the movie. I was pleasantly surprised by this film. I reccomend it to people over 12 though, because it does have a dark mood to it. It's just astonishing and beautiful.
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Summary: Intresting But Too Strange
Review: This is a intresting movie. Johnny Depp, is one of the only reasons why I rate this movie a three. His role playing Edward is very powerful like all his other roles, but the movie is just a bit too odd for me. The movie is very dark, and gloomy, and very strange.
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Summary: My favorite Movie of all time
Review: This is the best movie ever! Johnny Depp plays Edward. He is great in that role.Its my favorite movie ever. At first when i heard of it, i thought it would be kind of dumb. But then after a wile, after i watched it a couple of times i became upsested with it. Its really funny too!. If you dont want to buy it you should atleast rent it. Anyone whos anyone should watch this film. It is great.
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Summary: Snip...snip.
Review: Ah...it was okay. A little heavy handed to say the least. The dark and gloomy meets the Brady Bunch. I don't know...it was okay.
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Summary: Very cute
Review: Touching, cute, adorable, hilarious are just some terms that can be used to describe this wonderful film. A true fantasy -- it has a little lost romance added into the mixture. I just love Johnny Depp -- he's able to completely immerse into whatever whacky charater he plays to perfection. This film is great fun for the entire family, and if you want to just relax and kick back, and suspend reality, this is the movie for you.
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