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Rewriting history
Don't get me wrong. Usually I give 5 stars to this wonderful film. A Burton masterpiece enhanced by Depp's incredible mime show and Winona Ryder's grace. What I find appalling is that the powers-that-be from Fox erased her name from the cover !!! I thought that kind of methods pertained to a terrible past when people like Stalin erased former leaders from the official photographs. Ironically the Berlin Wall collapsed when both Depp and Ryder got top-billing and entered our collective memory with that movie and now, some genius wants to rewrite that history. Pffff

Cute BUT A LITTLE SCARY!
this is a great movie...any movie with Johnny Depp is great so take the time to check it out...by the end of the movie you will really feel for edward and wish him the best. GOOD MOVIE!!

One of the Classic American Films, Ever...
The amazing thing to me is how long I procrastinated before buying Edward Scissorhands. I had always believed that it was another poor horror film, considering it is still an infant effort from the master of film, Tim Burton. However, I saw it on FX, and I was blown away. This is American film at its finest. The story is so well-crafted, yet so juvenile that it seems like a 6-year-old could have devised it. But considering that this is Tim Burton at his finest, it is so much more than that. You begin to feel the angst that Edward feels. This brings me to the acting, which is DEFINITELY Johnny Depp's best collaboration with Tim Burton, possibly his best film ever. Depp conveys so many emotions with so little words that he speaks about as much as Woody Allen at a 50 Cent party, yet gets as many points across as Star Jones on cocaine. It really is a truly amazing performance. Tom Hanks owes his performance in The Terminal to Depp's here bigtime.
Tim Burton's style is what drives the film. Edward is a black-and-white freak in a pastel world. His amazing level of not belonging is almost endearing, and surely this movie will bring tears to the eyes of even the most adament of tough guys. Winona Ryder and Michael Anthony Hall are the supporting cast. Ryder is somewhat fake in her somewhat fake role, but succeeds partially nonetheless, and Hall is Jim, her boyfriend and a bully of Edward. He is completely believable, and you will have no problem hating him early in the film.
Edward Scissorhands also carries an incredible moral, and thatr is that when you are a novelty as he is in this world, your "friends" are prone to turn on you any time, just as they do on Edward. By the way, his friends are desperate, lonely housewives from the neighborhood. They use him to trim hedges and cut hair, two of his amazing abilities. But when he is accused of criminal activity, they're quick to dump him.
Overall, Edward Scissorhands is one of the best films I have ever seen. It is the best Johnny Depp movie and one of the best, if not the best Tim Burton film. An incredible achievement.

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