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GavinGibbons

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I have to be in the right mood to watch this film, sometime i watch it and think of how unique a story and visually stunning it looks. the rest of the time i get half way through and have to turn it off. Good acting though and like i said before...
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I have to be in the right mood to watch this film, sometime i watch it and think of how unique a story and visually stunning it looks. the rest of the time i get half way through and have to turn it off. Good acting though and like i said before an original script from Burton.

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Posted aug 23, 2008 11:06 am pt

BlueBanana92

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Every time I watch this movie I begin to cry. Johnny did an absolutely great Edward and Winona was really beautiful. I love how Tim Burton has manged to make a really nice blend of humour, drama, romance and his charcteristic contrasts between the...
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Every time I watch this movie I begin to cry. Johnny did an absolutely great Edward and Winona was really beautiful. I love how Tim Burton has manged to make a really nice blend of humour, drama, romance and his charcteristic contrasts between the dark and the colorful.

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Posted mar 27, 2008 8:38 pm pt

SharkSushiGirl

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I love this movie so much! It makes me laugh, cry, and want to watch it over and over again. Johnny Depp did a spectacular job playing the part of Edward.

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Posted jan 3, 2008 8:57 am pt

jaws2341

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i love any movie tim burton makes but this one is my favorites. i heard somebody call sweeney todd a bloody edward scissorhands.

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Posted dec 11, 2007 3:48 am pt

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Edward Scissorhands is a very nice fantasy movie with a good mix of humor, romance, and drama. The beautiful production design, memorable cast, and touching script make this one of my favorite movies.

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Posted aug 26, 2007 6:10 am pt

k3ya

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This is the movie that I absolutely loved when I was younger, and still love today. Nothing can beat a man with scissor hands that is taken into a town full of colorful houses and women who love, then hate, him. I want to buy this movie. Watch it...
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This is the movie that I absolutely loved when I was younger, and still love today. Nothing can beat a man with scissor hands that is taken into a town full of colorful houses and women who love, then hate, him. I want to buy this movie. Watch it if you haven't.

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Posted apr 13, 2007 8:49 am pt

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it's a truw work of art. it's beautful, deep, and humorous all at the same time.

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Posted mar 24, 2007 5:04 am pt

Chilly418

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I laughed and laughed watching his movie, It is so great, no great doesnt describe it, there isnt a word to describe it, I mean seriously its that good, Jhonny Depps acting is genious in this movie, I cried at the end, cause she left him, but it...
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I laughed and laughed watching his movie, It is so great, no great doesnt describe it, there isnt a word to describe it, I mean seriously its that good, Jhonny Depps acting is genious in this movie, I cried at the end, cause she left him, but it was great. and the makeup was great to cause I couldnt hardly tell this was Jhonny Depp, I mean I have seen him in a lot of characters with make up piled up on his face, but this by far was the hardest to see him in!

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Posted feb 16, 2007 10:43 am pt

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Johnny and Winona are amazing in this movie. As is story, music, scenography... everything. This movie is cult classic for generations and generations, it's one of those movies you watch as a child, and then you watch it with your child, and with...
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Johnny and Winona are amazing in this movie. As is story, music, scenography... everything. This movie is cult classic for generations and generations, it's one of those movies you watch as a child, and then you watch it with your child, and with your grandchildren one day...

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Posted feb 15, 2007 10:23 pm pt

NoOneIsAlone

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I think that this film was good. I just think that Edward was so sweet and was such a good man, not a freak to my opinion. A very, very good human being who was able to adapt himself to his new environment, something worth of admiring. Though he...
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I think that this film was good. I just think that Edward was so sweet and was such a good man, not a freak to my opinion. A very, very good human being who was able to adapt himself to his new environment, something worth of admiring. Though he does not talks very much at first, I think this movie was awesome, nice story, and sweet movie!

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Posted jan 28, 2007 12:42 pm pt

• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  100
  A classic... Edward Scissorhands is a sharp salute to the oddball in all of us.

  by Jay Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  Simple, funny, gorgeous, sad, and sweet, perfect for playing over and over.

  by Lawrence O'Toole | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  100
  Perhaps the most original movie fantasy creation of the year: an icon of tenderness and artistic alienation that clings, stickum-like, to your mind's eye and the softest, most woundable parts of your mass-culture heart. [7 Dec 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  100
  A witty comedy of manners that arcs into poignance, this is a Christmas movie only a Grinch could hate... One of the brightest, bittersweetest fables of this or any-year. [10 Dec 1990, p.87]

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  90
  A delightful and delicate comic fable.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  89
  Depp, as the the fragile but irresistibily fabulous title character, is a delight.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  88
  Strange, funny and powerfully moving… Burton has found a way to move through camp to emotional authenticity, to communicate-through a concentration of style and an innocence of regard-a depth and sincerity of feeling that his deliberately (and often, comically) flat characters could not summon on their own. [14 Dec 1990, Friday, p.C]

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  An ambitious and quite beautifully conceived fairy tale for the 90s.

  by Joe Berry | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  Like a great chef concocting an exquisite peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  Amusing and inventive.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  75
  Tim Burton's fantasy is more original than his previous film, “Batman,'' and its colors make “Dick Tracy'' look drab. Add wry dialogue and a mischievous critique of suburban life, and you have a diverting fable that doesn't quite live up to its quirky premise. [7 Dec 1990, Arts, p.12]

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  75
  Edward Scissorhands isn't perfect. It's something better: pure magic.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  70
  The theme--that just beyond the edge of the perfectly normal lies the truly bizarre--is realized with intelligence and visual flair.

  by Staff (Non Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  If the script were half as witty as its production design and Danny Elfman's score, the film might be a classic; instead, it recalls the “Beetlejuice” half that doesn't have Keaton. [7 Dec 1990, Life, p.4D]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  60
  Tim Burton remains the Wizard of Odd with this eye-filling if problematic confection.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »