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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 1716
Released: September 5, 2000 |
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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 (Widescreen 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 (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
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2009-11-07 - This item was even better than anticipated! Very pleased with seller, will purchase again. A+ for smooth transaction.
Classic Burton
2009-10-02 - This movie really is a fascinating classic story. Recently I saw this on Amazon for pretty cheap in Blu Ray and having fond memories we decided to pick it up. I was curious if I would still enjoy this one so many years later or if it would just feel too dated. To my enjoyment that was not the case.
The movie seems to be a blend between several decades. The houses all look straight out of the 1950's or 60's as well as many of the styles yet the cars and some clothing looks more 70's but then there is mention of things like CD players which really make it even harder to figure out the time frame since those are from the mid to late 80's. I believe this was an important aspect of the film as it tries to show a simple life and a throw back to a supposedly simpler time until Edward comes in and turns things upside down.
The town feels so 'plastic' and cookie cut with bright colors that it really does a good job contrasting with Edward's world which is dark, gritty, with lots of grey while his clothing is anything but simple and ordinary.
Blending the two worlds is done really well as Edward tries to adapt. But the seemingly simple community is full of back biters who are all just fair weather friends with the exception of the family that takes Edward in and a few others.
I especially loved a semi minor character in the police officer who seemed to not only understand how fickle the community was but also understood some of the challenges Edward faced and was sympathetic and genuine to him.
Oh and Vincent Price is well... priceless as the creator of Edward even though he does not get much film time, he plays a critical role flawlessly.
Overall after all these years I still love this film, perhaps even more than before since I feel I understand it more. Highly recommend this one to anyone and it looks great on Blu ray.
This was a good movie at the time. 
2009-08-31 - I was really impressed with this back in the 80's but now it's really old and really bad. If you loved it at the time, do yourself a favor and hold onto those memories and don't see it again no matter what you do. It's terrible 20 years later.
Modern Day Fairy Tale 
2009-07-19 - Tim Burton's wild imagination is evident, and the setting and make-up bring you in to a Kitschy Avon Lady that rescues a scissorhand kindly Frankenstein from a mansion he shared with an inventor, before finishing him. No hands - just scissors and a kind heart
Overall the movie is slow - you can only cut so many bushes, hairdo's, dogs, etc before a need for more action or an ending comes to mind.
Peg Bogs the Avon lady brings him home to her family - this takes a leap of faith to believe. Of course Edward Scissorhands is misunderstood and gets into sad and illegal situations he is blamed for. He gets in trouble with the law and the neighborhood no longer wants him around.
The cast does well, but the plot sags and the movie time could have been cut in half
The genius of Tim Burton. 
2009-05-22 - Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
I've seen Edward Scissorhands at least five or six times now, and yet I don't see any record that I've ever reviewed it. So now it's time to correct that oversight, even though in the almost twenty years since its release, pretty much everyone else has already done so.
Plot: the title character (Johnny Depp) has been living in isolation in a dilapidated mansion since the death of his creator (Vincent Price). Suburbia has crawled in in the interim, and intrepid Avon lady Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest of TV's Law and Order) heads up to see if anyone's interested in facial cream. When she discovers the squalor in which Edward lives, she brings him home to experience all the comforts of suburbia. With scissors for hands, Edward immediately captivates the neighborhood with his hedge-sculpture and barbering abilities. When he falls in love with Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder), however, his former fans start to wonder if someone so out of the ordinary can really fit in. It doesn't help that Edward, who's badly-socialized after living alone for most of his life, is eager to please everyone he meets, and because of this falls in with a bad crowd.
As you have to expect, given that this is a Tim Burton film starring Winona Ryder, this is all about being an outcast in suburbia (think Beetlejuice here), but Burton avoids making this a simple retread of the film that made him a star by keeping the fantasy elements to a minimum. Which is kind of odd to say about a movie that centers around what is essentially a cyborg with large blades in place of hands. But compared to the over-the-top supernatural wackiness that was Beetlejuice, the world of Edward Scissorhands seems downright normal. And, of course, there's the minor change that where the title character in the former film was most definitely the bad guy, in this case, it's the humans that are the monsters, where Edward himself is just a big kid who doesn't quite know that you can't actually be friends with everyone.
The genius of Tim Burton's artistry, and the reason his movies are almost guaranteed hits, is that his vision is so far left of center that "left" no longer becomes a valid aspect; he's simply off in his own universe, but in such a way that the end productis still commercially accessible. A difficult thing to do indeed, but Burton's resume speaks for itself; his movies regularly appear in thousand-best lists, and he's directed a handful of bona fide modern classics, including Edward Scissorhands. Given all this, you don't necessarily need to be a top-class commercial director to make your name in film history (Stan Brakhage is an obvious example), but Burton very much is. Maybe that's why his films are, more often than not, smashes at the box office as well as with the critics. His vision is complemented with fantastic camerawork, top-notch sound, excellent acting from the entire cast, and a message that's evident without being terribly overdone. A wonderful movie all around. ****
