Classic Tim Burton

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2002)

It is always great to see people doing different things with film. For me, the ability to produce darkness together with beauty is a gift. I admire Tim Burton amongst others such H.R Giger (of Aliens fame), and novelist Clive Barker. Their abilities to produce things of darkness one minute, but beauty the next, is a moving experience and one that all viewers should enjoy. Burton does this in Edward Scissorhands, a fairy tale for the 90's. It is an ideal Christmas film although not one which pre-teens will enjoy. It combines a variety of emotions; happiness and love on one hand, fear and loss on the other. Acting is first-class, especially from Depp, and the plot is as strong as a vice, full of drama which twists and turns like a spiral. A classic must-see.