A simple comparison.

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2002)

Go watch this movie again. Then go rent the 1958 French film Mon Oncle by Tati. Now tell me this isn't the exact same film. They are. There are obvious differences but too many parallels to ignore. Both films are great. It's startling how alike they are though. Both involve a bizarre outsider in an even more bizarre modern world. Some scenes in Edward Scissorhands are almost copied from Mon Oncle. I don't say this as a knock on Scissorhands, I just think it's either an amazing coincidence or Tim Burton definitely looked at Mon Oncle for inspiration. Either that or I'm crazy, which I have considered.