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Strange, Creepy, Wonderful, and Heart-wrenching, All At Once
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.

Who Ever THought of This Film was an Insane Genius
Whomever came up with the concept for this film needs very serious mental evaluation; A love story about a guy with scissors for hands? But perhaps we will put that aside for now becasue the movie is simply stupendous. Edward ScissorHands is one of my all time favorite movies, I assume this goes for many others as well, becasue i have never found someone who didnt like this movie. It appeals to the strange geek inside us all who just wants to be accepted for what he is. For an overview of the movie read the summary amazon has provided, i will talk only about the dvd. THe extras are quite neat with commentary tracks, production art, and best of all some old Burton shorts. Vincent is a great clayamtion thing about a kid trying to be vincent price, it reminded me of beetlejuice, visually. Frankenweenie is kinda dumb and boring, but its about a kid who brings his dog back to life. THe image clarity is fantastic, as is the sound on this disc. It has some really cool animated menus too. So go buy it. You might wanna see it first though becasue it is pretty strange. Bottom line is if you like Burton films, you will love this one. (I still have a little trouble seeing that kid from the breakfast club as a bad guy, but whatta gonna do?)

Tim Burton's Best
Edward Scissorhands is Tim Burton's classic modern fairy tale that features not only some of the director's best work, but a great cast (including Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Diane Weist, and Vincent Price), and a fantastic score by Danny Elfman.

The story revolves around the misadventures of Edward, a strange and lonely young man, created by an eccentric old inventor who lived in a dark mansion, high on a hill overlooking a twisted suburban "Everytown, USA". We learn that Edward was left unfinished, having only scissors for hands, after the inventor dies unexpectedly, and leaving his creation to live a quiet and isloated life, far from the town below. In a quirk of fate, he is eventually discovered by an over-zealous Avon Lady from town when she comes calling at the lonely mansion and decides to befriend Edward and take him back to live with her family.

Edward Scissorhands is a classic tale of fantasy and love, hope and sorrow. Tim Burton gives us a truly caring and sympathetic character in Edward. He is a kind, yet naive innocent who wants to help people and is often taken advantage of by the locals of the town, as well as duped and assaulted by the macho bully boyfriend of the girl he falls in love with. In the end, Edward finds that he simply doesn't belong in the harsh reality of the real world and escapes back to the sanctuary of his mountain hideaway. Burton also gives us a scathing and harshly warped view of suburban life, showcasing the shallow superficiality of 'The Burbs' with it's tacky identical cars, neon-colored houses, overdone lawns, bored businessmen and gaudy floral-print clad housewives.

Edward Scissorhands is a fun and entertaining film that I highly recommend.

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