Burton's best work since both Batman and Ed Wood

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2014)

Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands is an effort that to me is a near perfect Burton film, his film was inspired by a drawing he did as a teenager. As the movie opens we see an old lady telling the story of Edward Scissorhands to her granddaughter (in which this scene reminded me of Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride (1987) because both the beginning and ending scenes to both films are very similar), as the story is being told we see an Avon representative (played by Dianne Wiest) who is trying to sell makeup to her fellow neighbors who are really busy at the moment, after her makeup selling attempts are over she sees this creepy looking mansion and goes to it to see what is in there and as she gets to the attic portion she sees the creepy looking Edward (played by Johnny Depp) who is unfinished invention who happens to have scissors for hands and the Avon rep. ends up taking him to her place where he also happens to meet her husband Bill (played by Alan Arkin), her son Kevin (played by Robert Oliveri) and have a good time together for the first few days, and a few days after living there the oldest daughter Kim (played by Winona Ryder)comes home and Edward scares her half to death, and then becomes the local barber. Burton's film is a very delicate character study about Edward and the good and bad times that he has faced during his few weeks in his temporary new home. Before the movie is over things start heading downward for Edward because of the scenes where he gets beat up and insulted and put down by Kim's ex boyfriend Jim (played by Anthony Michael Hall)and officially becomes and outcast. The film is just one of those fairy tales that some people won't understand but will end up enjoying it depending on if you like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp or not.