The first and arguably most magical Burton & Depp movie.

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2006)

In a pastel, plasticly and dull low-time town we meet Peg, a joyous housewife who rings the bell and tries selling facial-products. Having a bad day she notices a crow-castle at the end of town, fascinated she enters the castle and finds a gentle and pale white young man who happens to have scissors for hands, named Edward. As she decides to take care of him, bringing him into the town, it's obvious that this man have never been outside the castle's walls - and the only thing he's really good at is to make big, impressive figures of garden-bushes. But Edward doesn't only discover the outside-world, he also discovers Peg's beautiful daughter, the lovely Kim.
Johnny Depp makes a perfect act with his bittersweet face, all covered with scars and with a chaotic, exploded hair-style. At first glance he looks like bogeyman #1 wearing a skin-tight leather suite and having huge scissors as hands, but you soon realize that he is as gentle as a lamb and that he doesn't wanna hurt a fly. Winona Ryder also fits her character splendid, a young and disturbed teenage girl facing a nightmare as she finds Edward lying in her bed at night and turning it all upside-down as she finally falls in love with him; because it's a great and peculiar love-story, and that's probably why Burton hit bullseye from the first place; Edward Scissorhands is simply a love-story between the charming weirdo and the beautiful girl. Tim Burton's unmistakable trademarks are everywhere, whether it's the Gothic touch of Edward's history or the purely cartoon town where Peg and her family lives. Edward Scissorhands is a fabulously enjoying movie and fits for the whole family.