Come on. You know summarizing a Tim Burton movie is impossible.

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2005)

This is my favorite movie. Never mind that Winona Ryder uses age makeup that wouldn't fool an extra on a Planet of the Apes sequel. Never mind that this movie began the career of the Frankenstein creature that had once been a skinny teen named Anthony Michael Hall. Never mind that Burton chose style over logic in a lot of scenes. Edward Scissorhands is a movie for weirdos about weirdos. If the Goth crowd hadn't clung to Nightmare Before Christmas as their unofficial banner of nonconformity, this movie would have filled the hole. It's odd and funny and very, very poetic. The suburbs are portrayed as deeply strange, and counterbalance the deeply strange characters with pastels. If you're a rebel, or a hedge-trimming enthusiast, or a kid trapped in the suburbs, or a human being at all, you will be touched by this movie.