Edward Scissorhands Critic Reviews
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Simple, funny, gorgeous, sad, and sweet, perfect for playing over and over.Read the full review
Perhaps the most original movie fantasy creation of the year: an icon of tenderness and artistic alienation that clings, stickum-like, to your mind's eye and the softest, most woundable parts of your mass-culture heart. [7 Dec 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]Read the full review
A delightful and delicate comic fable.Read the full review
Amusing and inventive.Read the full review
Like a great chef concocting an exquisite peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.Read the full review
Edward Scissorhands isn't perfect. It's something better: pure magic.Read the full review
If the script were half as witty as its production design and Danny Elfman's score, the film might be a classic; instead, it recalls the “Beetlejuice” half that doesn't have Keaton. [7 Dec 1990, Life, p.4D]Read the full review
Tim Burton remains the Wizard of Odd with this eye-filling if problematic confection.Read the full review
The disappointment is that Burton has not yet found the storytelling and character-building strength to go along with his pictorial flair.Read the full review
Great to look at but not much fun to watch… An emotionally uncommitted picture that's smirky and mawkish, by turns, and at heart, empty. [14 Dec 1990, Daily Datebook, p.E1]Read the full review
