Captivating and attractive fairytale with a very charming character well played by Johnny Depp

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2020)

Good film revolving around Johnny Depp who plays a young man living at a spooky hilltop castle and created by a weird scientist, Vincent Price, being left by his inventor without completate, wielding long scissor blades for hands. Then, the unfortunate boy is rescued from his lonely life outside of suburbia by a graceful Avon woman, Dianne West, and she takes him to live with her family. As hapless Edward arrives in a new neighbourhood and he fights with being lonely and diferent in a cardboard
cut-out wold . As Edward's hands get him into problem, creating peculiar haircuts,
horrendous gardens, and brighter, better poodles. Along way he fallls in love for a beautiful girl, Winona Rider, but he has to confront with her ex-boyfriend, Anthony Michael Hall.
Visually competent film with plenty of colourful images, splash, thrills and emotion .Edward role is very sensitive and agreeable, however, with scissors in place of hands, he has more trouble and complication fitting into suburbia than would most new kids on the block. Johhny Depp is terrific as the ingenuous, rare boy get into problem, Depp is every inch the pitiable being at the mercy of how his dead creator has left him . Support cast is frankly fine, including long or short appearances from notorious secondaries as Dianne West, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Conchata Farrell, Caroline Aaron and special intervention by Vincent Price as the strange scientific and creator in his last feature.
It packs a briiliant cinematography full of light and colour by Stefan Czapsky . As well as enjoyable and rousing musical score by Danny Elffman, Burton's regular. The motion picture was well directed by Tim Burton in his usual style. Burton is deemed to be a master of the dark fairytale and the gritesque. He has written, produced and directed pretty good movies such as Beetle Juice, Batman, Batman returns, Ed Wood, Mars attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse bride, Sweeney Todd, among others. Rating 7/10. Better than average. The flick will appeal to Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder fans , being essential and indispensable watching for fairytales aficionados. Well worth seeing.