Edward Scissorhands (Full Screen Anniversary Edition) | 
| Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  400 reviews
Sales Rank: 12444
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Special Edition, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2003764D
UPC: 024543037644
EAN: 0024543037644
ASIN: B000062XGE
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1990
Release Date: May 21, 2002
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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
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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
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 The genius of Tim Burton. May 22, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
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. ****
 TIM BURTON'S MASTERPIECE April 15, 2009
Stan Forsythe
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Edward Scissorhands is without question director Tim Burton's masterpiece. While the director has made many creative and exciting movies before and after the film, such as BeetleJuice, The Nighmare Before Christmas, Batman and the remake of Planet of the Apes, none of his films come close to even touching Edward Scissorhands.
While Burton's other films manage to grab the senses on a visual level instead of an emmotional level, Edward Scissorhands does both, with a combination of its gothic sets and special effects, stunning musical score by Danny Elfman (his best also) and empathetic characters that resemble you and me; characters that we care about.
Edward Scissorhands is one of the greatest films ever made.
A MEMORABLE FANTASY April 3, 2009
Geary A., Jones
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is the kind of fairy tale one might have expected from a Charles Addams. It's like a skewed version of Frankenstein-as-a-misunderstood-teen-visits-Barbieland. Burton's blending of fantasy, horror, and comedy, with just the right touch of longing, and sensitive sweetness is wonderful. The sets are superb, and Elfman's music hits just the right chord.
This was the movie that made me a Johnny Depp fan. He is pitch perfect as the incomplete creation of an old inventor ( the late, great, Vincent Price ). If you like dark, and twisted fantasy this is definitely a 'must have.'
One of my favorites March 12, 2009
K. Deese (Greensboro, NC)
This move is so good.It is definitely one of my favorite movies ever. It is an amazing movie and everybody should watch it at least once, or more like 14 times like me.
 Edward February 9, 2009
Kristin Mendible
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I never recieved this product due to some problems with the disk. I still received a full refund and someone contacted me promptly about the situation.
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