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A modern day Gothic fairy tale.
I love this movie, it is one of my favorite movies of all time. This film takes a Hunchback of Notre Dame approach with a Tim Burton twist. The acting, the scenery, the script, everything was good in this film. The love between Winonna Ryder, and Johnny Depp (who gave wonderfull performances) was sweet and heartfelt. This film is really hard to review because it is so good. Tim Burton's best movie in my opinion, this film is certainly a 90s classic. I highly reccomend this movie for ANYONE, especially teenagers and Tim Burton fans.

Movie still is great, but DVD extras don't deliver!
Every director probably has one movie that he pours part of himself into. For Spielberg, it was ET, Lucas had American Graffiti. Here, Tim Burton poured into the soul of Edward Scissorhands the world of an outsider, a creation of an old inventor (wonderfully played by Vincent Price) who passes on before he can finish Edward(wonderfully played by Johnny Depp). Edward is one day discovered by Peg Boggs, a curious Avon lady, who takes Edward home to suburbia, a community of multi-colored houses that could only come from the mind of Burton and production designer Bo Welch. Danny Elfman delivers probably his most moving score in this picture. The DVD looked like it would be incredile with what was announced, but it would have to lose starts for what I thought: 1)Audio commentary by Burton and Elfman: Both of these guys do not talk all the way through the film, (though it does sound a little better than Devlin and Emmerich on ID4's DVD & Barry Levinson and Tommy LEe Jones on Men In Black, who chatter on like inane movie theater patrons). But most of the time I found myself wondering when they would speak again. Burton probably speaks 12-15 times through most of the movie, but it sounds more like he's having little afterthoughts. Elfman's audio plays after certain music segments are done (his background music plays over the dialogue so we hear outright how it sounds). 2)Tim Burton concept art: after seeing The Tarzan Collector's Edition, this was a letdown, with only about 7 pieces of art (5 concepts of Edward, 1 of the Inventor, and 1 of Edward's place in the mansion's attic). 3)The featurette talking about the film is also a letdown, as there is nothing that was reall notable (I was really looking forward to hearing how Stan Winston Studios made the Scissorhands props). The only cool notable is the interactive menu, made like a pop-up book of the mansion Edward is found in. If you are looking to find a great movie, get this DVD. If you are into those that promise incredible extra features, pass this one up.

Amazing!
From the first time I saw this movie I was enthralled by it. Tim Burton has out done himself, and Danny Elfman's music is enchanting. This is a must see for all ages and will forever be deamed, in my eyes, as a classic.

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