Running Time: 104 min.
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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Depressing Crapfest.......2007-08-27
I know this movie is regarded as a great movie by the legions of sheep that blindly worship whatever Hollywood churns out. But to me, it's boring, depressing, and pointless. I've tried to watch it three times and have never been able to get through it without changing the channel or turning off the TV altogether.
The plot is a disaster. It reminds me of the kind of plot that junior high kids come up with in creative writing class; no climax and no idea how they are going to end the story.
The movie revolves around a cheap Pinocchio-like cliche. You've got a miserable outcast-robot with scissors instead of hands. The only redeeming thing that he can do is cut bushes into insteresting shapes and carve ice-statues. Edward Scissorhands turns even more tragic when he falls in love with some girl. He's got a big heart but every attempt at affection turns into disaster because of his scissor like hands. As a viewer with a heart, you can't help but feel sorry for him, so the movie turns out to be a two hour long Pityfest.
He accidently cuts people, he's insulted and rejected by everyone, and leads a depressing existence. He is so misunderstood that the police even go after him after he accidently cuts people with his razor sharp appendages.
I think the highlight of this terrible excuse for a movie is when he prunes trees. That should tell you how pathetic it is. There's no happy ending. Every minute of the movie is sad and disastrous.
interesting.......2007-08-23
Johnny is such an awesome actor. The director is really cool. His style is different and simplistic and interesting. The soundtrack fits perfectly. If you like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice you'll probably like this movie.
Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece.......2007-08-23
At the risk of violating Amazon.com's rules, I've copied the text of a 7-year old review that I believe perfectly captures the strong flow of emotions that one can be left with after viewing this remarkable movie. IMHO, this review is just too good to languish so far back in the mix --
(5 stars) I Will Never Forget This Movie, June 3, 2000
Reviewer: Kitten With a Whip "kittenwithawhip"
I am a huge Tim Burton fan, and love all of his movies and own them, have watched them at least 10 times each, and each one is really special to me (I know how dorky that sounds) but this is the one I am the most emotional about. I can't think of any other movie that has made me cry as often during the course of the movie, or as hard. When I saw it in the theater, I wasn't just tearing up, I was sobbing by the end. During the scene where Vincent Price (God I miss him) perfectly cast as "The Inventor" tells Edward he has a special present for him and hold up a pair of perfect hands, only to slip away at the last moment, I looked around the 3rd time I saw in the theater, and literally everyone in the theater was choked up if not outright crying, including grown men. If I ever want to cry on demand, all I have to do is simply *remember* the last scene of the movie, and the last few lines uttered by the storyteller, and I tear up. Just pulling up the image of Ryder, spinning around in the 'snow' dreamily, can still bring tears to my eyes 9 years later. I think this is the only movie I've seen where I actually had to sit there all through the credits trying to pull it together because I couldn't stop crying. My friend and I were still sniffling walking out of the theater. Other women out there: this is not a movie to watch when you have PMS, not unless you want to totally break down in a sobbing, emotional heap.
There's so many great things about this movie-- Tim Burton is a genius, plain and simple, and the art direction is brilliant. His vision of suburbia is great, with rows and rows of identical, colorful 50's style tract houses and flawless green lawns. The imagery will stick with you long after the movie is over; for instance, the shot of the little girl, getting told a bedtime story (the film's framing device) in a huge, oversized bed, almost buried in all the quilts and pillows, or the inventor's workshop, with an assembly line pumping out gingerbread men. Elfman does do his best work (other than Beetlejuice). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp were a couple at the time the movie was made, deeply in love, and it shows. It actually hurts to look at them, and Ryder, even with a horrible blonde wig, is stunningly beautiful and radiant. Just the way they look at each other, the longing in both their eyes, the tenderness when she says, "Hold me" and Edward replies sadly, "I can't", so Kim (Ryder) lovingly wraps her arms around him instead-- it gets me every time. All the casting is great (Vincent Price, especially -- obviously, Tim Burton got his dream cast for this one). Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or lonely, or longed for someone they know they will probably never end up with, will be touched deeply. (Starcrossed lovers always get to me). Yeah, I know. This all sounds very corny, but this movie is really in a class by itself. Period.
Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!.......2007-08-11
Anything with Johnny Depp in it is glorious, of course, but add Tim Burton and you always have the ultimate great movie. Loved this film with all of its uniquness, beauty and charm.
Depp is cut out for this role.......2007-07-21
Only Johnny could pull off this role. His eyes and facial expressions do wonders for this film. The casting is excellent and all actors and actresses shine. A great film for all ages. Great story line.
Average customer rating:
- Depressing Crapfest
- interesting
- Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece
- Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!
- Depp is cut out for this role
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Edward Scissorhands (Full Screen Anniversary Edition)
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Release Date: 2002-05-21 |
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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
Customer Reviews:
Depressing Crapfest.......2007-08-27
I know this movie is regarded as a great movie by the legions of sheep that blindly worship whatever Hollywood churns out. But to me, it's boring, depressing, and pointless. I've tried to watch it three times and have never been able to get through it without changing the channel or turning off the TV altogether.
The plot is a disaster. It reminds me of the kind of plot that junior high kids come up with in creative writing class; no climax and no idea how they are going to end the story.
The movie revolves around a cheap Pinocchio-like cliche. You've got a miserable outcast-robot with scissors instead of hands. The only redeeming thing that he can do is cut bushes into insteresting shapes and carve ice-statues. Edward Scissorhands turns even more tragic when he falls in love with some girl. He's got a big heart but every attempt at affection turns into disaster because of his scissor like hands. As a viewer with a heart, you can't help but feel sorry for him, so the movie turns out to be a two hour long Pityfest.
He accidently cuts people, he's insulted and rejected by everyone, and leads a depressing existence. He is so misunderstood that the police even go after him after he accidently cuts people with his razor sharp appendages.
I think the highlight of this terrible excuse for a movie is when he prunes trees. That should tell you how pathetic it is. There's no happy ending. Every minute of the movie is sad and disastrous.
interesting.......2007-08-23
Johnny is such an awesome actor. The director is really cool. His style is different and simplistic and interesting. The soundtrack fits perfectly. If you like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice you'll probably like this movie.
Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece.......2007-08-23
At the risk of violating Amazon.com's rules, I've copied the text of a 7-year old review that I believe perfectly captures the strong flow of emotions that one can be left with after viewing this remarkable movie. IMHO, this review is just too good to languish so far back in the mix --
(5 stars) I Will Never Forget This Movie, June 3, 2000
Reviewer: Kitten With a Whip "kittenwithawhip"
I am a huge Tim Burton fan, and love all of his movies and own them, have watched them at least 10 times each, and each one is really special to me (I know how dorky that sounds) but this is the one I am the most emotional about. I can't think of any other movie that has made me cry as often during the course of the movie, or as hard. When I saw it in the theater, I wasn't just tearing up, I was sobbing by the end. During the scene where Vincent Price (God I miss him) perfectly cast as "The Inventor" tells Edward he has a special present for him and hold up a pair of perfect hands, only to slip away at the last moment, I looked around the 3rd time I saw in the theater, and literally everyone in the theater was choked up if not outright crying, including grown men. If I ever want to cry on demand, all I have to do is simply *remember* the last scene of the movie, and the last few lines uttered by the storyteller, and I tear up. Just pulling up the image of Ryder, spinning around in the 'snow' dreamily, can still bring tears to my eyes 9 years later. I think this is the only movie I've seen where I actually had to sit there all through the credits trying to pull it together because I couldn't stop crying. My friend and I were still sniffling walking out of the theater. Other women out there: this is not a movie to watch when you have PMS, not unless you want to totally break down in a sobbing, emotional heap.
There's so many great things about this movie-- Tim Burton is a genius, plain and simple, and the art direction is brilliant. His vision of suburbia is great, with rows and rows of identical, colorful 50's style tract houses and flawless green lawns. The imagery will stick with you long after the movie is over; for instance, the shot of the little girl, getting told a bedtime story (the film's framing device) in a huge, oversized bed, almost buried in all the quilts and pillows, or the inventor's workshop, with an assembly line pumping out gingerbread men. Elfman does do his best work (other than Beetlejuice). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp were a couple at the time the movie was made, deeply in love, and it shows. It actually hurts to look at them, and Ryder, even with a horrible blonde wig, is stunningly beautiful and radiant. Just the way they look at each other, the longing in both their eyes, the tenderness when she says, "Hold me" and Edward replies sadly, "I can't", so Kim (Ryder) lovingly wraps her arms around him instead-- it gets me every time. All the casting is great (Vincent Price, especially -- obviously, Tim Burton got his dream cast for this one). Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or lonely, or longed for someone they know they will probably never end up with, will be touched deeply. (Starcrossed lovers always get to me). Yeah, I know. This all sounds very corny, but this movie is really in a class by itself. Period.
Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!.......2007-08-11
Anything with Johnny Depp in it is glorious, of course, but add Tim Burton and you always have the ultimate great movie. Loved this film with all of its uniquness, beauty and charm.
Depp is cut out for this role.......2007-07-21
Only Johnny could pull off this role. His eyes and facial expressions do wonders for this film. The casting is excellent and all actors and actresses shine. A great film for all ages. Great story line.
Average customer rating:
- Depressing Crapfest
- interesting
- Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece
- Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!
- Depp is cut out for this role
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Edward Scissorhands
Starring:
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Tim Burton
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Release Date: 2002-05-21 |
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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
Customer Reviews:
Depressing Crapfest.......2007-08-27
I know this movie is regarded as a great movie by the legions of sheep that blindly worship whatever Hollywood churns out. But to me, it's boring, depressing, and pointless. I've tried to watch it three times and have never been able to get through it without changing the channel or turning off the TV altogether.
The plot is a disaster. It reminds me of the kind of plot that junior high kids come up with in creative writing class; no climax and no idea how they are going to end the story.
The movie revolves around a cheap Pinocchio-like cliche. You've got a miserable outcast-robot with scissors instead of hands. The only redeeming thing that he can do is cut bushes into insteresting shapes and carve ice-statues. Edward Scissorhands turns even more tragic when he falls in love with some girl. He's got a big heart but every attempt at affection turns into disaster because of his scissor like hands. As a viewer with a heart, you can't help but feel sorry for him, so the movie turns out to be a two hour long Pityfest.
He accidently cuts people, he's insulted and rejected by everyone, and leads a depressing existence. He is so misunderstood that the police even go after him after he accidently cuts people with his razor sharp appendages.
I think the highlight of this terrible excuse for a movie is when he prunes trees. That should tell you how pathetic it is. There's no happy ending. Every minute of the movie is sad and disastrous.
interesting.......2007-08-23
Johnny is such an awesome actor. The director is really cool. His style is different and simplistic and interesting. The soundtrack fits perfectly. If you like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice you'll probably like this movie.
Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece.......2007-08-23
At the risk of violating Amazon.com's rules, I've copied the text of a 7-year old review that I believe perfectly captures the strong flow of emotions that one can be left with after viewing this remarkable movie. IMHO, this review is just too good to languish so far back in the mix --
(5 stars) I Will Never Forget This Movie, June 3, 2000
Reviewer: Kitten With a Whip "kittenwithawhip"
I am a huge Tim Burton fan, and love all of his movies and own them, have watched them at least 10 times each, and each one is really special to me (I know how dorky that sounds) but this is the one I am the most emotional about. I can't think of any other movie that has made me cry as often during the course of the movie, or as hard. When I saw it in the theater, I wasn't just tearing up, I was sobbing by the end. During the scene where Vincent Price (God I miss him) perfectly cast as "The Inventor" tells Edward he has a special present for him and hold up a pair of perfect hands, only to slip away at the last moment, I looked around the 3rd time I saw in the theater, and literally everyone in the theater was choked up if not outright crying, including grown men. If I ever want to cry on demand, all I have to do is simply *remember* the last scene of the movie, and the last few lines uttered by the storyteller, and I tear up. Just pulling up the image of Ryder, spinning around in the 'snow' dreamily, can still bring tears to my eyes 9 years later. I think this is the only movie I've seen where I actually had to sit there all through the credits trying to pull it together because I couldn't stop crying. My friend and I were still sniffling walking out of the theater. Other women out there: this is not a movie to watch when you have PMS, not unless you want to totally break down in a sobbing, emotional heap.
There's so many great things about this movie-- Tim Burton is a genius, plain and simple, and the art direction is brilliant. His vision of suburbia is great, with rows and rows of identical, colorful 50's style tract houses and flawless green lawns. The imagery will stick with you long after the movie is over; for instance, the shot of the little girl, getting told a bedtime story (the film's framing device) in a huge, oversized bed, almost buried in all the quilts and pillows, or the inventor's workshop, with an assembly line pumping out gingerbread men. Elfman does do his best work (other than Beetlejuice). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp were a couple at the time the movie was made, deeply in love, and it shows. It actually hurts to look at them, and Ryder, even with a horrible blonde wig, is stunningly beautiful and radiant. Just the way they look at each other, the longing in both their eyes, the tenderness when she says, "Hold me" and Edward replies sadly, "I can't", so Kim (Ryder) lovingly wraps her arms around him instead-- it gets me every time. All the casting is great (Vincent Price, especially -- obviously, Tim Burton got his dream cast for this one). Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or lonely, or longed for someone they know they will probably never end up with, will be touched deeply. (Starcrossed lovers always get to me). Yeah, I know. This all sounds very corny, but this movie is really in a class by itself. Period.
Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!.......2007-08-11
Anything with Johnny Depp in it is glorious, of course, but add Tim Burton and you always have the ultimate great movie. Loved this film with all of its uniquness, beauty and charm.
Depp is cut out for this role.......2007-07-21
Only Johnny could pull off this role. His eyes and facial expressions do wonders for this film. The casting is excellent and all actors and actresses shine. A great film for all ages. Great story line.
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Lenticular Cover + Illustrated Storybook)
Starring:
Emily Watson , and
Helena Bonham Carter
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Limited Edition Packaging features a Lenticular Slipsleeve Cover and an Exclusive Collector's Book.
Description
An interview with the director of the film Sleepy Hollow, Tim Burton. Burton speaks about the inspiration for the film, the classic Washington Irving story on which it is based, and his chemistry with the actor Johnny Depp. Then, Depp, the leading actor in Sleepy Hollow, talks about his performance and shares his reasons for choosing unconventional roles.
Customer Reviews:
I LOVED IT .......2007-05-09
IT WAS LIKE JOHNNY WAS IN THE ROOM .
I SEEN IT 6 TIMES ALREADY IT IS HOT.
Nice interview.......2007-01-11
If you are a really Johnny Depp Fan you should have this
interview (or Tim Burton Fan or both)
The interview is about Sleepy Hollow.
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Average customer rating:
- Depressing Crapfest
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- Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!
- Depp is cut out for this role
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Edward Scissorhands [Region 2]
Starring:
Johnny Depp ,
Winona Ryder ,
Dianne Wiest ,
Anthony Michael Hall , and
Kathy Baker
Director:
Tim Burton
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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Depressing Crapfest.......2007-08-27
I know this movie is regarded as a great movie by the legions of sheep that blindly worship whatever Hollywood churns out. But to me, it's boring, depressing, and pointless. I've tried to watch it three times and have never been able to get through it without changing the channel or turning off the TV altogether.
The plot is a disaster. It reminds me of the kind of plot that junior high kids come up with in creative writing class; no climax and no idea how they are going to end the story.
The movie revolves around a cheap Pinocchio-like cliche. You've got a miserable outcast-robot with scissors instead of hands. The only redeeming thing that he can do is cut bushes into insteresting shapes and carve ice-statues. Edward Scissorhands turns even more tragic when he falls in love with some girl. He's got a big heart but every attempt at affection turns into disaster because of his scissor like hands. As a viewer with a heart, you can't help but feel sorry for him, so the movie turns out to be a two hour long Pityfest.
He accidently cuts people, he's insulted and rejected by everyone, and leads a depressing existence. He is so misunderstood that the police even go after him after he accidently cuts people with his razor sharp appendages.
I think the highlight of this terrible excuse for a movie is when he prunes trees. That should tell you how pathetic it is. There's no happy ending. Every minute of the movie is sad and disastrous.
interesting.......2007-08-23
Johnny is such an awesome actor. The director is really cool. His style is different and simplistic and interesting. The soundtrack fits perfectly. If you like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice you'll probably like this movie.
Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece.......2007-08-23
At the risk of violating Amazon.com's rules, I've copied the text of a 7-year old review that I believe perfectly captures the strong flow of emotions that one can be left with after viewing this remarkable movie. IMHO, this review is just too good to languish so far back in the mix --
(5 stars) I Will Never Forget This Movie, June 3, 2000
Reviewer: Kitten With a Whip "kittenwithawhip"
I am a huge Tim Burton fan, and love all of his movies and own them, have watched them at least 10 times each, and each one is really special to me (I know how dorky that sounds) but this is the one I am the most emotional about. I can't think of any other movie that has made me cry as often during the course of the movie, or as hard. When I saw it in the theater, I wasn't just tearing up, I was sobbing by the end. During the scene where Vincent Price (God I miss him) perfectly cast as "The Inventor" tells Edward he has a special present for him and hold up a pair of perfect hands, only to slip away at the last moment, I looked around the 3rd time I saw in the theater, and literally everyone in the theater was choked up if not outright crying, including grown men. If I ever want to cry on demand, all I have to do is simply *remember* the last scene of the movie, and the last few lines uttered by the storyteller, and I tear up. Just pulling up the image of Ryder, spinning around in the 'snow' dreamily, can still bring tears to my eyes 9 years later. I think this is the only movie I've seen where I actually had to sit there all through the credits trying to pull it together because I couldn't stop crying. My friend and I were still sniffling walking out of the theater. Other women out there: this is not a movie to watch when you have PMS, not unless you want to totally break down in a sobbing, emotional heap.
There's so many great things about this movie-- Tim Burton is a genius, plain and simple, and the art direction is brilliant. His vision of suburbia is great, with rows and rows of identical, colorful 50's style tract houses and flawless green lawns. The imagery will stick with you long after the movie is over; for instance, the shot of the little girl, getting told a bedtime story (the film's framing device) in a huge, oversized bed, almost buried in all the quilts and pillows, or the inventor's workshop, with an assembly line pumping out gingerbread men. Elfman does do his best work (other than Beetlejuice). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp were a couple at the time the movie was made, deeply in love, and it shows. It actually hurts to look at them, and Ryder, even with a horrible blonde wig, is stunningly beautiful and radiant. Just the way they look at each other, the longing in both their eyes, the tenderness when she says, "Hold me" and Edward replies sadly, "I can't", so Kim (Ryder) lovingly wraps her arms around him instead-- it gets me every time. All the casting is great (Vincent Price, especially -- obviously, Tim Burton got his dream cast for this one). Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or lonely, or longed for someone they know they will probably never end up with, will be touched deeply. (Starcrossed lovers always get to me). Yeah, I know. This all sounds very corny, but this movie is really in a class by itself. Period.
Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!.......2007-08-11
Anything with Johnny Depp in it is glorious, of course, but add Tim Burton and you always have the ultimate great movie. Loved this film with all of its uniquness, beauty and charm.
Depp is cut out for this role.......2007-07-21
Only Johnny could pull off this role. His eyes and facial expressions do wonders for this film. The casting is excellent and all actors and actresses shine. A great film for all ages. Great story line.
Average customer rating:
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- Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece
- Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!
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Winona Ryder ,
Dianne Wiest ,
Anthony Michael Hall , and
Kathy Baker
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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Depressing Crapfest.......2007-08-27
I know this movie is regarded as a great movie by the legions of sheep that blindly worship whatever Hollywood churns out. But to me, it's boring, depressing, and pointless. I've tried to watch it three times and have never been able to get through it without changing the channel or turning off the TV altogether.
The plot is a disaster. It reminds me of the kind of plot that junior high kids come up with in creative writing class; no climax and no idea how they are going to end the story.
The movie revolves around a cheap Pinocchio-like cliche. You've got a miserable outcast-robot with scissors instead of hands. The only redeeming thing that he can do is cut bushes into insteresting shapes and carve ice-statues. Edward Scissorhands turns even more tragic when he falls in love with some girl. He's got a big heart but every attempt at affection turns into disaster because of his scissor like hands. As a viewer with a heart, you can't help but feel sorry for him, so the movie turns out to be a two hour long Pityfest.
He accidently cuts people, he's insulted and rejected by everyone, and leads a depressing existence. He is so misunderstood that the police even go after him after he accidently cuts people with his razor sharp appendages.
I think the highlight of this terrible excuse for a movie is when he prunes trees. That should tell you how pathetic it is. There's no happy ending. Every minute of the movie is sad and disastrous.
interesting.......2007-08-23
Johnny is such an awesome actor. The director is really cool. His style is different and simplistic and interesting. The soundtrack fits perfectly. If you like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice you'll probably like this movie.
Best review yet of Burton's masterpiece.......2007-08-23
At the risk of violating Amazon.com's rules, I've copied the text of a 7-year old review that I believe perfectly captures the strong flow of emotions that one can be left with after viewing this remarkable movie. IMHO, this review is just too good to languish so far back in the mix --
(5 stars) I Will Never Forget This Movie, June 3, 2000
Reviewer: Kitten With a Whip "kittenwithawhip"
I am a huge Tim Burton fan, and love all of his movies and own them, have watched them at least 10 times each, and each one is really special to me (I know how dorky that sounds) but this is the one I am the most emotional about. I can't think of any other movie that has made me cry as often during the course of the movie, or as hard. When I saw it in the theater, I wasn't just tearing up, I was sobbing by the end. During the scene where Vincent Price (God I miss him) perfectly cast as "The Inventor" tells Edward he has a special present for him and hold up a pair of perfect hands, only to slip away at the last moment, I looked around the 3rd time I saw in the theater, and literally everyone in the theater was choked up if not outright crying, including grown men. If I ever want to cry on demand, all I have to do is simply *remember* the last scene of the movie, and the last few lines uttered by the storyteller, and I tear up. Just pulling up the image of Ryder, spinning around in the 'snow' dreamily, can still bring tears to my eyes 9 years later. I think this is the only movie I've seen where I actually had to sit there all through the credits trying to pull it together because I couldn't stop crying. My friend and I were still sniffling walking out of the theater. Other women out there: this is not a movie to watch when you have PMS, not unless you want to totally break down in a sobbing, emotional heap.
There's so many great things about this movie-- Tim Burton is a genius, plain and simple, and the art direction is brilliant. His vision of suburbia is great, with rows and rows of identical, colorful 50's style tract houses and flawless green lawns. The imagery will stick with you long after the movie is over; for instance, the shot of the little girl, getting told a bedtime story (the film's framing device) in a huge, oversized bed, almost buried in all the quilts and pillows, or the inventor's workshop, with an assembly line pumping out gingerbread men. Elfman does do his best work (other than Beetlejuice). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp were a couple at the time the movie was made, deeply in love, and it shows. It actually hurts to look at them, and Ryder, even with a horrible blonde wig, is stunningly beautiful and radiant. Just the way they look at each other, the longing in both their eyes, the tenderness when she says, "Hold me" and Edward replies sadly, "I can't", so Kim (Ryder) lovingly wraps her arms around him instead-- it gets me every time. All the casting is great (Vincent Price, especially -- obviously, Tim Burton got his dream cast for this one). Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, or lonely, or longed for someone they know they will probably never end up with, will be touched deeply. (Starcrossed lovers always get to me). Yeah, I know. This all sounds very corny, but this movie is really in a class by itself. Period.
Burton and Depp make the ultimate team!.......2007-08-11
Anything with Johnny Depp in it is glorious, of course, but add Tim Burton and you always have the ultimate great movie. Loved this film with all of its uniquness, beauty and charm.
Depp is cut out for this role.......2007-07-21
Only Johnny could pull off this role. His eyes and facial expressions do wonders for this film. The casting is excellent and all actors and actresses shine. A great film for all ages. Great story line.
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