Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Edward is a gentle, naive creation with razor sharp scissors for hands. When he is taken home by a kindly Avon lady live with her family, his adventure in the pastel paradise of Suburbia begins!
Cast and Information
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson
Starring: Vincent Price, Johnny Depp, Alan Arkin, Kathy Baker, Winona Ryder, Anthony Michael Hall, Dianne Wiest, Conchata Ferrell, Stuart Lancaster, O-Lan Jones, Robert Oliveri, Marti Greenberg
Genres: Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
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Spunkie | 90 99th |
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Going to "Batman" as a teenager, that scissorhands poster on the hallway flickered in my mind without knowing the name "Burton". Everyone are caught in a cheerful Poe simulation, mad scientist, F.steined Depp and expressionist architecture. May seem extravagant, but I consider E.S. in line with Dogville. Both are talking about the same thing with totally different choices for their simulacra.
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Moribunny | 70 75th |
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Tim Burton is a lifelong revivalist of 19th century Gothic romanticism. Edward Scissorhands is the quintessential example, a modernized Frankenstein or Phantom, the cliché of the sympathetic freak misunderstood by a shunning society. Burton takes it to caricaturistic extremes by contrasting the gentle dark knight with a pastel-colored suburban community that's nauseatingly conformist and prim. It's kitsch, but engaging and humorous, and excels in casting, visuals and music.
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saucyjack | 83 72nd |
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One can see Burton's childhood feelings of isolation and bitter feelings towards suburbia coming to the forefront in this haunting fable. The visuals are there, per usual with Burton, but the human element is also there. Unlike many of Burton's previous (and present) works, it doesn't make one feel cold and actually shows that EVERYONE deserves and wants to be loved and that is what life's all about.
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Magb | 70 39th |
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I felt like this movie was trying kinda hard to be "magical" -- especially the musical score. It isn't really very magical, it's just cute and entertaining. Apart from the sporadic weirdness, this could easily have been a Spielberg film. Depp is great, as always, and the story is a nice "modern fairy-tale". Still, nothing about it is all that exciting to me.
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Elfflame | 88 89th |
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A modern-day fable for a world that seems to have forgotten how they work. And the pinnacle of Burton's career. Sweet, and funny, and utterly beautiful, with just the perfect touch of heartbreak.
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fuxoft | 90 93rd |
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Timeless fairy tale
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| 2 | SavageLucy42 | 80 50th |
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Well. You saw this coming.
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Kojiless | 70 75th |
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Oh Wynona. You stole our hearts in this movie...and then went on to steal dresses.
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Luna6ix | 86 92nd |
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even if you dont like tim burton, you cannot deny that he is original. a mechanical man with scissors for hands in some 50's suburban landscape...almost sounds so outlandish i should be insane. johnny depp gives a performance that deserves much credit, and the sheer refreshingness of the originality of this picture stands out among the staleness that's been hollywood some could argue fifty years.
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MArkjp | 90 90th |
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It's teenage angst meets gothic romanticism in a splendid mix of fairy tale narrative, beautiful expressionist cinematography and horrible pastel-coloured 1950s suburbia. Depp is great as the ever so charming little gothic fish-out-of-water with a heart as sweet as a cookie and the rest of the cast delivers as well. Also: Great score from Danny Elfman and Vincent Price's last performance on the big screen is not to be missed.
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grimace98 | 85 93rd |
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I love this movie much much more than a straight man should love this movie.
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CCLZA | 90 95th |
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Tim Burton in top form. Beautiful.
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AgentSnipe | 81 74th |
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Tim Burton, first of all, is a genius. A crazy, deranged genius, but a genius nonetheless. Johnny Depp is an amazing actor. He doesn't even seem like he is acting in this movie. He is unrecognizable and just IS Edward Scissorhands.
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| 1 | funksub | 90 81st |
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Beautiful and haunting, Burton at his best. I can't say enough about the visuals and fantastic performance by Depp.
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| 1 | CatScandal | 66 56th |
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Visually stunning, but the story is too much of a re-tread. Fails to make any really interesting statements. One of Burton's most visually innovative, but reveals his weakness for screenplays which are far less daring than his direction.
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Shoran | 80 88th |
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The charming naiveness of Edward makes this film memorable.
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| 1 | Chili | 90 81st |
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Burton and Depp can only turn cinema into gold.
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TheDiceman | 60 62nd |
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Interesting.
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cagedwisdom | 75 65th |
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This is one of the most creative, interesting, funny and sad stories I have ever seen on film. Johnny Depp is WONDERFUL in this role. The visuals are colorful and rather reminiscent of Singin' in the Rain. Splendid.
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| 1 | gleeb | 20 2nd |
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Stupid. It assumes the audience is stupid, and thus will accept it's cookie-cutter version of suburbia, and its reaction to its pointlessly sensitive freak hero. A good flick for folks who cut themselves.
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| 1 | JohnLocke | 89 68th |
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One of Burton's finest films.
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twincinema | 85 85th |
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"Why don't we simply call it "Edward Penishands?" "We've been up all night, but that was worth it."
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| 1 | Murravener | 80 63rd |
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This dreamworld created by Tim Burton is visually stunning, and the story feels like a modern fairy tale.
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AFlickering | 5 75th |
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probably more tragic given that the real life edward opened his shitty salon and allowed normies to exploit his talents for the creation of tacky mass-market novelty fare for the rest of his days. not that timmy was ever as much of an outsider as he liked to think, but this was among the last examples of his visual stylings ingeniously serving a (seemingly...) sincere, clear-eyed vision, and in spots he does achieve an innocent kind of poetry. comedy should probably be a genre tag, no?
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TedDedon | 75 50th |
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Visually impressive but it lacks the life that I think the director was trying to give it. It's never a bad movie, it's just never a great one.
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MJVmovieMan | 77 74th |
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Original and always interesting, one of Tim Burton's class-acts.
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Stain | 90 86th |
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Very nice suburban fairy tale from Tim Burton. This movie is pretty much what it's like to grow up as a Totally Anomalous Creative Person
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| 1 | meanmikhail | 100 91st |
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Wonderful modern-day fable.
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msprague | 70 61st |
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Quirky and weird and dark and fun.
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Shephard | 80 94th |
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Really nicely done, appealing cast, well-acted, funny, touching, and visually amazing.
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KasperL | 90 97th |
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Burton's best film is a magically weird, twistedly dark and just plain lovely piece of auteurist-cinema.
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| 1 | wcsae | 98 97th |
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Johnny Depp, Tim burton, scissors, hands, it's a holiday classic.
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| 1 | John Locke | 90 67th |
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Depp deserves an Oscar.
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seanfunk | 80 74th |
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I love this film. Depp, Burton, Diane Weiss, Alan Arkin, this film never puts a foot wrong for me. It's something like a desert though, it does lack a certain substance and leaves you feeling like you should have had something more substantial but then again it's only a fairytale.
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sophie | 90 95th |
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I watched this again, since it was on TV and I still love it.
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lumpnboy | 45 45th |
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Pleasant enough movie, shallow and dull in its sentiments, which for some reason lots of people think is just terrific. 'Lighter' than usual, but in general Burton has little to offer beyond a derivative aesthetic that people take as at least visually daring, and even sometimes dark, despite the fact that the only real darkness is literal, if 'darkness' refers to anything more than sanitised comic book or action movie notions of heroes and villains, domesticated ideas of good and evil.
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calharding | 86 81st |
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A touching, timeless, beautiful and infinitely quirky gothic fairytale. Still ranks as some of Tim Burton's best work and contains possibly Danny Elfman's finest score.
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Jeb | 96 89th |
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Heartwarming, yet dark. Tim Burton has made a masterpiece! Of course, Depp's performance is unforgetable and awesome!
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chemical404 | 83 97th |
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Great tale about kindness, love, and most of all about being human.
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somnivore | 82 44th |
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Disturbingly surreal.
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Mihon | 98 99th |
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Burton's movies has always inspired me as a nightmare with reality swinged togheter in an artistic form of display. Johnny Depp makes one of his most memorable characters here and this movie as the first of Burton I saw. First I was scared the facinated and now I just love it. I still like the pink cookies the professor dose in his lab. I still wonder what they taste like? Its a dark fun and very important movie for both Depp and Burton. Cause this movie spawned a relationship that we all love
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| 1 | smacfarl | 60 12th |
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Beautiful, sentimental. Kids film camp. Love of the disabled outsider and the beautiful do gooder v. society that just doesn't understand.
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oldgoat | 90 96th |
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It's a curious piece of cinema. It's a shame that tim burton was so fucking good but does mostly crap now.
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DavidBlast | 95 96th |
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My favourite movie fairytale, and best of Burton/Depp/Elfman collaborations. The heartbreaking story of the brilliant but misunderstood artist, cast out by the scary masses of stereotypical suburbia. Striking visuals and hauntingly beautiful music makes this _the_ definitive Burton/Elfman film. -"Hold me" -"I can't" is one of the most beautiful exchanges ever committed to film. If you're not convinced yet: It features a young Winona Ryder. /endsalespitch.
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| 1 | reedzkee | 82 50th |
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One of Tim Burtons better films. Very odd but heartfelt and wholly entertaining.
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afx237vi | 90 95th |
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Tim Burton at his most imaginative, fantastical and compassionate. Sort of like a twisted version of Beauty and the Beast with a bit of Frankenstein thrown in for good measure. Depp is brilliant as the lonely, isolated outsider, and the supporting cast of grotesque suburbanites add a nicely satirical edge. The film probably wouldn't work without Elfman's amazing music, though, which is utterly enchanting and yes... a bit magical.
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Lord Moe | 50 11th |
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I may make some enemies with this review... This movie is a good example of "style over substance." The film is definitely more heavy on atmosphere and visuals rather than actual story. It is very good looking, the music is amazing, and the acting is good, but when the story basically surfaces in the end, something is wrong. It's worth watching just for the visuals, though. Just don't expect a great story...or any story for that matter.
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NothingsGood | 90 96th |
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Edward Scissorhand's ranks with the best of Tim Burton's work and borrows heavily from the design of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, painting a bizarre reflection on suburban America and its conformity. Johnny Depp delivers an award worthy performance as the title character beside equally strong performances from Diane Wiest, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall, and the great Vincent Price.
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| 1 | mrsdinger | 98 93rd |
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This film made me fall in love with Tim Burton, and Johnny Depp. I love Edwards journey of being lost and then being found and the struggle of fitting in, and finding his place. IT is a sad and magical tale, that I enjoy watching from time to time.
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Trooth | 77 75th |
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Seems kind of like a story that an awkward high school student would write, but it's still pretty well done, and funny at times. The symbolism is just RIDICULOUSLY thinly veiled.
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Paxton | 87 95th |
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The brilliant contrast between the bright pastel cookie cutter houses and the dark foreboding gothic castle is akin to the bitter contrast between the bright pastel kid friendly current nonsense and the dark imaginative masterpieces of Burton's early career.
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LyleChipason | 69 0th |
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tss i bet its hard for him to tug his fukin pecka tss syke eddy im jus chippin ya
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MacSwell | 95 97th |
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A beautiful modern day fairytale, the film charts the introduction of eponymous robot loner Edward into human society. Depp is terrific as the delicate hero in a role in which he says so much with so few words, and Wiest offers a great turn as the Avon lady who takes him in. The creepy, pastel-coloured neighbourhood is well-realised, with the strong Elfman score hinting at something sinister, and the ending is sad but most satisfying. This is surely Burton's magnum opus.
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DarkNights | 85 92nd |
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Un indispensable de noël, Burton frappe fort et propose tout un univers qui repose essentiellement sur les épaules Johnny Depp (étonnant ?). On passe des rires aux larmes, c'est magnifique, la musique est éternelle, surtout le temps d'une scène de neige, qui va oublier ce moment magique ?
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