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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 27493
Released: May 21, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Edward Scissorhands (Full Screen Anniversary Edition):
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
Edward Scissorhands (Full Screen Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
Beautiful Movie 
2008-12-30 - This movie has just the right mixture of humor, elegance, pain, love, and Johnny Depp to create a classic.
Depp plays Edward, a machine created by the late scientist of the castle in suburbia, has scissors for hands, since he was modeled after a cookie dough slicer. Edward is a gentle, sweet, innocent character who is generally mute and expresses a lot of his words with body language. He is adopted by the loving and slightly weird make-up agent Peg Boggs,and he lives with her and her typical suberbia husband Bob, befriending their son Kevin and falling in love with their daughter, Kim. At first Kim does not like Edward but after Edward is asked by Kim, forced by her mean boyfriend Jeff, to brake into a house to get money and Edward is blamed but he does not tell the police who made him do it, she realizes how mean Jeff is and how gentle and loving Edward is. She slowly begins to fall in love with Edward, and this makes Jeff jealous and angry. On Christmas night he gets drunk and goes to harass Kim, and sees Edward accidentally cut Kim's hand while making a snow-angel carving in ice. Edward runs to the castle where Kim follows, as does Jeff, and there is a struggle, ending with Jeff hurting Kim and so Edward stabs Jeff with his scissor-hands. Then he and Kim give fond good byes, with Kim kissing his gently on the lips for the first and and she sadly leaves and makes it look like both Edward and Jeff are dead.
It is a remarkably touching, beautiful, and heart warming story. It made me cry slightly to see Edward and Kim in a doomed love.
So you should buy it, 'cause it's a classic.
~~Moonwhisker~~
golden classic
2008-12-26 - I grew up watching this movie and i will surely enjoy watching it on HD , i recommend this movie.
Burton's classic fairy tale
2008-12-21 - Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick are my two favorite directors of all time. And needless to say, Edward Scissorhands is one of my favorite films from Burton. This is a classic modern fairy tale that's full of humor, tragedy, and colorful suburbia. Johnny Depp as Edward is so believable, that I doubt anyone else could've played the part. Winona Ryder may be in a rut these days, but here she's lovely. Her growing affection for Edward makes for a beautiful atmospheric way of making the story shine. Dianne Weist, Alan Arkin, and Kathy Baker are a perfect supporting ensemble; the desperate housewives far superior to the housewives of ABC. O-Lan Jones is the religious fanatic who becomes a part of the tide that turns on Edward int he second half of the story, so you love to hate her. Vincent Price is memorable in his last film role. And finally, Anthony Michael Hall is Jim the main antagonist. He is the one who insults and fights against Edward. Hate him for what he is, will you?
The music itself should be notable in the film. Danny Elfman works the story with lots and lots of orchestral emotion. The suburbia music is catchy and a bit jazzy; the soft and lyrical moments just HAVE to be heard.
With all the characters, music, art direction, costume design, and cinematography, it's a big wonder why there are not that many special features on the DVD. Beside the interesting audio commentary by Buton and Elfman, there are only a featurette that was made back when the film was being made, and some sound bytes. There are no deleted scenes or outtakes or any of that sort. I really hope that the next time this film is released, they at least put in some audio commentary by the actors, a 90+ minute behind-the-scenes documentary, etc.
Film: A+
DVD: B-
Edward Scissorhand
2008-12-16 - This DVD came very quickly and is exactly what I ordered..Its a gift but I just know the grandson is going to love it!
5 Stars for Tim Burton
2008-11-07 - I saw this wonderful movie in 1990 when it first came out. I was already a Tim Burton fan of sorts, but this made me a Burton fanatic. I saw it first with my wife, and I remember thinking at the very beginning, when Danny Elfman's haunting, beautiful score was only a few notes old, that I was going to love this film. And I did. It just hit me right in the heart, in the most vulnerable, deepest part of my soul. I know that sounds pretentious, but it's the best I can do with my limited writing ability. Now understand, I was 39 years old at the time, a pipefitter/welder by trade, certainly not someone people would think of as "sensitive" or "artistic" by nature. I've been in more than my share of fistfights, ride a Harley, and love guns, power tools, and anything that explodes. But by the end of Edward Scissorhands, especially at the Ice Dance scene, I was sobbing like a little girl. My wife had to help me out of the theatre, because my eyes were so tear-swollen I could barely see. I admit I have a weakness for characters that are outsiders, or (to borrow from Heinlein) "strangers in a strange land", but what Tim Burton and Johnny Depp did with this scissor-handed man was nothing short of magical. I took my 16 year old daughter to see it the next day, and I started tearing up at the beginning this time, knowing what was coming. As we left the theatre, Liz was stone-faced, and I was desperately clenched against the flood of emotion I was holding back. I didn't want to look like a fool in front of her. When we got into the sunlight, we looked at each other, and I saw that she was trying as hard as me not to break down. Which is exactly what we both proceeded to do, right there in front of the theatre. We held each other and sobbed. And I felt closer to her than I had in a long time. Thank you, Tim Burton, for that moment.
