A beautiful and touching instant classic.

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2007)

My Take: An imaginative and touching classic. A burst of imagination as only Tim Burton can conceive.
Before I was a movie buff, I thought that "Edward Scissorhands" was a horror film, a counterpart of Freddy from "The Nightmare on Elm Street" (Yeah!I really did). But when I finally watched many years later, I was surprised at how magical and magnificent it was. This film really should be in the classics list, a really wonderful movie it was. This was Tim Burton's first collaboration with Johnny Depp, which led to other film success like "Ed Wood" and "Sleepy Hollow". But this was the best. Burton has never come up with a more fantastic that can surpass it. Johnny Depp really made his best performance, he should have won an Oscar for that.The rest of the cast including Winona Ryder, Dianne Weist, Alan Arkin and Vincent Price, in his final screen performance, give excellent support. Danny Elfman's music is outstanding and the settings and costumes are well done.
This film is really great. So if your a movie collector, or simply a movie buff. Make sure you leave a space in the classics' row (and in your heart) for "Edward Scissorhands".
Rating: ***** out of 5.