Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Directed by Tim Burton
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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‘I was lucky, because the studio got the point,’ he says, adding ‘unlike ‘Vincent”a reference to Disney’s burying the marvelous short subject for years because they thought it was too scary for its intended kid audience.
This is Burton's fourth film, following "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," "Beetlejuice" and "Batman," each of which has seemed to take place in a unique universe, some kind of parallel space and time that blends various eras and mores and movie conventions.
A charming, utterly original fable with a darkness that would be surprising in a relatively mainstream release were it not the work of Tim Burton, the hobgoblin director behind Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks!, and the first two Batman movies.
Tim Burton's ("Pee-Weeâ??s Big Adventure"/"Beetlejuice"/"Batman") sweet but bizarre fable is a fantasy comedy updated take on the Frankenstein story.
"Edward Scissorhands" is enchantment on the cutting edge, a dark yet heartfelt portrait of the artist as a young mannequin from the creator of "Beetlejuice," "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Batman."
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" was an unalloyed visual delight, and so was " Beetlejuice ," and "Batman" gave us a Gotham City that was one of the most original and atmospheric places I've seen in the movies.
Save for his magnum opus of the new millennium, 2007's marvelously ghastly musical " Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ," this is director Tim Burton's most inspired effort in years, more genuinely recollective of the originality and entertaining quirkiness of 1988's "Beetlejuice" and 1990's "Edward Scissorhands" rather than more recent plasticized efforts like 2005's " Charlie and the Chocolate Factory " and 2010's " Alice in Wonderland ."
Edward Scissorhands presents this outlandishly strange premise, but with a gentleness worthy of Edward himself, Burton and screenwriter Caroline Thompson (who later directed the remake of The Black Stallion) demonstrate how Edward is just an extreme metaphor for the gangliness and isolation experienced by most adolescents.
"Edward Scissorhands" is enchantment on the cutting edge, a dark yet heartfelt portrait of the artist as a young mannequin from the creator of "Beetlejuice," "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Batman."
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" was an unalloyed visual delight, and so was " Beetlejuice ," and "Batman" gave us a Gotham City that was one of the most original and atmospheric places I've seen in the movies.
This is Burton's fourth film, following "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," "Beetlejuice" and "Batman," each of which has seemed to take place in a unique universe, some kind of parallel space and time that blends various eras and mores and movie conventions.
Growing up, I enjoyed Edward Scissorhands a lot, Beetlejuice, some, and have seen both Batman and Batman Returns many times.
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If anything keeps the film together through this rocky first part, besides the raw appeal of Furst's production design and the fact that, in 1989, just the notion of seeing Batman on the big screen was pretty damn cool, it's Danny Elfman's outstanding score, from that early period in his career when he was still interesting in exploring what film music could do (we owe the twinkling music-box tunes of Edward Scissorhands , his masterpiece, to this same era).
An original movie (1990), though not Tim Burton's best; Johnny Depp's inert performance in the title role can't compare with the over-the-top eruptions of Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice and Jack Nicholson in Batman.
Tim Burton's ("Pee-Weeâs Big Adventure"/"Beetlejuice"/"Batman") sweet but bizarre fable is a fantasy comedy updated take on the Frankenstein story.
A charming, utterly original fable with a darkness that would be surprising in a relatively mainstream release were it not the work of Tim Burton, the hobgoblin director behind Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks!, and the first two Batman movies.
That was true even of his " Batman ," which was 1989's box office champion, but could have been a better film, I believe, if there had been anyone in it to inspire our emotional commitment.
His movies are not always perfect, but even lesser efforts like "Batman" feature his signature quirkiness and invention.