I am not complete.

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2014)

Tim Burton's richly entertaining update of the Frankenstein story is one of the most romantic and haunting film's in the past twenty years.
Burton has fun showing Edward's struggles to get dressed, use silverware and sleep in a water bed without wreaking havoc. Not only that, but Edward eradicates the blandness of the suburbs of where he lives by sculpting the town's hedges into exotic topiaries of animals and people. He gives elaborate haircuts to the neighborhood dogs and then moves on to their owners. Edward is a sensation, and what a terrific performance by Johnny Depp.
As in Burton's other films, the outsider soon becomes the outcast, and the laughs are soon tinged with melancholy. Burton shows how the townspeople's curiosity about Edward turns to suspicion and hostility Edward is denounced as a freak, which is not the usual Hollywood norm in films like these.
Where the film becomes somewhat of a tale of beauty and beast is where Kim comes to cherish Edward for his imagination and devotion. He creates ice sculptures while she dances in the flakes to Danny Elfman's engulfing score. It's a cathartic moment — the artist sharing his feelings through his art. Both Depp and Winona Ryder (who is a gifted actress), give the potentially sappy scene a potent intimacy. Later, when Kim reaches out to Edward, he pulls back his sharp, cold hands in despair until she tenderly wraps her arms around his chest, which gives us the most ernest and sincere lines in the film.
Edward Scissorhands isn't perfect, but it is a magical movie nonetheless.