When you hear a title like this, what do you think of? A dark bloody horror flick, or at least thats what I thought. This is further backed by my experience with “Sweeny Todd”, another Tim Burton film. So I go in, expecting all this gratuitous blood to be splashed around in my face. Boy was I wrong. Not only does it have little blood, but also barely any swearing. Heck, if I had just checked the rating, it was PG-13, but to me it could have passed as a stronger PG. Man, I really should pay more attention to that kinda stuff so I won’t be looking past the T.V. during the scenes I thought would get intense (I don’t like lots of blood ok? OK?????). Anyhoo…
Again, this movie just blew me away from what I thought it would be, but thats in a good way. I love a movie that will be different and still be able to pull it off. Contrast comes to mind with Burton, since he likes to put bright colors into his movies when there are some darker characters coming into these scenes. I have only seen this done in his movies, and thats why I’ve become a fan of him. The story progresses at a great pace, keeping me entertained through the comedy and drama the whole time. To me, most movies really can’t balance these two elements, they either have too much comedy which will make you not care about the characters, or too much drama which will bore you (an exception to this is if the drama is just excellent). Edward on the other hand pulls off both perfectly. This has to be one of the only movies that has gotten me to tear up (proof of a REAL man, this should make up for my looking away from the screen every so often… right?)
Acting in it was also phenomenal. Johnny Depp has to be one of the more talented actors in Hollywood, seeing as he can pull off a troubled “person” (Scissorhands), a play writer (Finding Neverland), a creepy gothic barber (Sweeny Todd), and a drunk pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean). The rest of the cast play their roles with just as much believability and emotion. This movie has also just confirmed to me that Tim Burton is a genius. With a resume of this movie, “A Nightmare Before Christmas”, and a musical that can make someone who hates them actually stand the singing (Sweeny Todd), he has to be one of the better Directors out there. Would someone please get this guy an Oscar already? The writing is top notch as well, making for some great scenes and comedic situations.
Ok, so was there anything that I didn’t like about this movie? Really the only thing about this that I didn’t think was right was how he ends up with scissors for hands. Now, I don’t want to ruin anything for all of you, but I really have to get this out. If you don’t want for a little bit of the movie to be spoiled (and I mean, its not even a big part of the story) then just go to the next paragraph. Why would an inventor make a human being robot thingy, and then instead of just WAIT to put hands on until he has actual hands, put scissors in the place of them? Couldn’t he have put on carrots or something non lethal instead? Makes NO sense to me…
Other than that though, the whole movie is just everything it should be. Everyone should really see this movie, unless you have something against scissors, hair cuts, hedge trimming, great movies, or Tim Burton. I would have to give Edward Scissorhands… 48/50 Ducks (yes, you read it right, ducks. Amanda, you should know that this will never stop)
