Brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2005)

I'll tell you off the bat that Tim Burton is my favorite director and when I was reading up on this movie and I rented it I was skeptical because it seemed a little too weird. However this movie was yet another showcase of the brilliance of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. The atmosphere Tim Burton sets is like Sleepy Hollow and Nightmare Before Christmas in Edwards mansion and a lot like the town of Spectre in Big Fish in the town they live in. The basic synopsis of this movie is a door to door saleswoman named Peg finds a frankenstein-esquire character, Edward Scissorhands, in a mansion and takes him in. He struggles to learn and live life with other people because he has scissors for hands. This movie may sound strange but it is deep and brilliant and a modern classic. I highly recommend this movie to anyone.