Edward scissors hand as created by a scientist in a castle far from the community, but unfortunately for Edward the scientist dies before completing his inventions. This leaves Edward alone in the castle until he is been discovered by a woman ho brings him to the society.
Burton's modern fairytale has an almost palpably personal feel: it is told gently, subtly and with infinite sympathy for an outsider who charms the locals but then inadvertently arouses their baser instincts.
... this sweet 1990 fantasy ... for the first time crystallized the latent themes in the director's work: the notion of the artist as outsider, of skills that make one special but at the same time different.
The film has an unapologetically adolescent purity about it that transcends what would ordinarily be the shortcomings of its script.
LarsenOnFilm
July 25, 2008
...perhaps the cinema's most enchanting parable about the misunderstood and alienated artist.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
Burton's richly entertaining update of the Frankenstein story is the year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy.
ÜberCiné
July 25, 2011
Between this masterpiece and that other Ed (Wood), TIm Burton and Johnny Depp are at their dual-career best. Ed Wood is about how insane Hollywood is -- and Edward Scissorhands delivers the pure magic that, once in a rare while, escapes the place.
