Edward Scissorhands (DVD)

Released: 1991 Director: Tim Burton Running Time Approx: 105 mins Certificate PG === Disk 1: Main Featurette === This film stars Johnny Depp as Edward, A biological human created by a an inventor, (Vincent Price). The inventor created him and throughout making him, taught him lessons of right and wrong, through reading him poems. Sadly before the inventor is given chance to make Edward real hands, he passes away, leaving Edward with metal blades for hands, hence the name Edward Scissorhands, and he has to live the rest of his life in the large mansion at the top of hill overlooking a small american suburbia. One day the ...  Read the complete review

As a woman reads to her granddaughter one winters night, she recalls the story of a strange character from a nearby gothic mansion who she once fell in love with. Kim is now elderly and looks longingly out of the window. When her mother Peg discovered a boy who has scissors for hands living alone in the mansion, she brings him down into the town to live with the family. Instantly, the local neighbourhood are intruigued by Edward, and set about finding out about the mystery guest. As it happens, Edward is a creation of the elderly inventor who owned the mansion on the hill, and before he had a chance to give Edward prosthetic hands, he died. But Edward's flare for ...  Read the complete review

This is my 200th review and I had prepared a review of something else but my suggestion hasn't yet been approved. Seeing that I haven't written a review on Dooyoo for nearly a week I thought I had better go with plan B which is a review of my favourite Depp film of all time. This was the first film I saw of Depp's and at that time I knew nothing about him at all. If I had a zloty for every time I have watched this I would be a very rich lady indeed. I know every frame and every line. I can recite the words and act the film backwards and with my eyes closed. The director is Tim Burton and in a profession where unconventionality is often a by-word for success, ...  Read the complete review

Tim Burton is one of my favourite directors. The Nightmare Before Christmas was spookily beautiful. His Batman films were dark and moody. Big Fish wasn't that special, but we'll let him off. However, Edward Scissorhands must be his finest moment. I must admit I've only just got round to watching it, despite the fact it was made 16 years ago - it was definitely worth the wait. Johnny Depp looks about twelve playing the Edward in question; a monster created by a mad inventor (Vincent Price) in a spooky castle at the top of a hill. Sadly, the inventor died just before he fitted Edward with his human hands, leaving him with huge metal shears for fingers. One day, ...  Read the complete review

In a castle on a hill lives a young man called Edward. He has the soul of an artist and a poet, but is afflicted by a disability. Edward was created by an old inventor and, as everyone should know, he has been orphaned with only wickedly sharp blades where his hands should be. One day the Avon lady finds Edward in a dark corner of the castle. She takes him away from his nest of newspaper cuttings about people overcoming disability, and brings her to the town. Everyone is curious and welcoming to him, until latent distrust, paranoia, intolerance and xenophobia start to kick in, and Edward becomes feared and despised. Jonny Depp and Winona Ryder are captivating ...  Read the complete review