It might creep kids out

I absolutely love this movie i have since i was about four ( though i dont recomend parents to let kids that young watch it) it is so beutiful and stiring and yes, it is a bit of a chick flick, the music is superb the lessons well learned. it is an absolute MASTER PEACE

At the end of the cul-de-sac in a cookie-cutter suburban town, there's a gate that leads to a gloomy looking mountain with a gloomy looking mansion at the top. This is the home of an old inventor who creates unusual things. His most involved project is Edward, a sort of robot/humanoid being with feelings. Edward was made with scissors for hands, but his creator dies of a heart attack before he can finish Edward by giving him regular hands. So, Edward lurks in his mansion for years before he is discovered by kindly Avon saleslady Peg Boggs. Peg brings him down from the mountain and introduces him to her normal, suburban life- and that's when it all begins. This is a really heartfelt romance about trying to fit in and being yourself. However, there are some warnings: there is a fair bit of (accidental) cutting by Edward, as having scissors for hands isn't easy. There is a bit of profanity (d***, s***, h***, etc), and one of the women who lives in the town tries to seduce Edward. These things make it appropriate for older tweens and up. But all in all, the movie has equal amounts of witty, romantic, and depressing moments, making it a really wonderful film that you'll want to watch over and over again.

This was a freakin awesome movie!

NOT FOR KIDS. A guy gets stabbed and killed in the chest and falls from a great height (MOST intense scene) A sex scene, though the people are both clothed.

A man-made boy with scissors for hands and an unconventional fairytale; Edward Scissorhands could only have emerged from the weird and wacky mind of legendary cult director and auteur, Tim Burton. The narrative is based on one that we all know so well: Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl but, girl is in love with somebody else. Only this is no ordinary boy as Edward has lethal weapons instead of hands and comes from an old gothic castle atop a hill, where he lives in isolation. Edward is played by Johnny Depp (A Nightmare On Elm Street, Cry-Baby) and his portrayal of the outcast is spectacular. There is little dialogue for Depp and so like a silent movie actor, he conveys all of his feelings with facial expressions and the emotion in his eyes is intense. His heart-warming representation of society’s outsider reaches out to anyone who ever felt different as a teenager. Alongside the beautiful Winona Ryder (Beetle Juice) as Kim Boggs, Depp is the epitome of freakish; yet the on-screen couple are strangely cute together. Perhaps their wonderful on-screen chemistry emanates from the off-screen relationship that the two stars were having at the time the film was in production. Edward is rescued from his lonely life by an unlikely heroine. Avon lady Pegg Boggs played by Diane Wiest (The Lost Boys, Footloose) finds Edward physically and mentally scarred and living alone and so she decides to take him back to suburbia with her. Before life with the Boggs family Edward had no contact with the outside world. We are presented with flashbacks of his life with his father and inventor throughout the film; some of these reminiscent scenes are extremely touching as we discover that the inventor died before Edward was finished Burton’s take on American suburbia is extremely clever and witty. The pastel-coloured houses and over-the-top personalities that live in them provide an un-mistakable contrast to Edward’s appearance and his castle, which emphasises his status as society’s outsider to the audience. The film is packed with amusing moments as Edward fails to grasp the concept of suburbia and the references the residents make. Perhaps some of the most laugh-out-loud moments are when Edward tries to understand the waterbed, punctures it and then stems the flow of water with one of Kim’s teddies or when he persistently tries to pick up a single pea from his dinner plate with his scissors. The expression on his face during these sequences is priceless. Edwards’s child-like innocence in scenes like these is endearing. Composer Danny Elfman adds a sprinkle of magic to the narrative as his beautiful music creates a perfect atmosphere for each scene. The most powerful example that conveys the sheer brilliance that can be achieved when Burton and Elfman put their heads together is the aesthetically pleasing ice-angel sculpture sequence. The slow camera movements as Edward sculpts the ice-angel and Kim dances in the snow, combined with the hypnotising music creates a moving sequence worthy of being remembered in cinema history. Burton capsizes the audience’s expectations of a fairytale narrative in the final few scenes. We expect a conventional happy ending as Kim realises she loves Edward but, it’s clear everything won’t be chocolates and flowers as Kim says “Hold me” and Edward replies “I can’t.” The story then takes an emotional twist and many audience members will be left teary eyed. All-in-all, Edward Scissorhands is a wonderful film for all the family and will go down in history as one of Burton’s greats!

I saw this at age seven. It's very violent and sexy. Yet, this should be the first"scary" movie. "Orphan" a little too scary for your 12-year-old? Edward Scissorhands is the answer.

i wonder how he goes to the bathroom

While Edward Scissorhands is a unbelievably dark movie, and arguably Tim Burton's most gothic movie to this day, it is also heartwarming, beautiful and ultimately positive. But, even though there isn't too much to offend here, the PG-13 Rating is still fairly accurate since there are infrequent, but disturbing moments of violence, most notably the constant beatings that Edward faces in the second half and because of the only person that he kills in the movie, which is at the end and is fairly graphic. Also, the only other problem here is some brief sensuality, mostly consisting of a sleazy neighbor and a very unnecessary and not very funny scene of her attempting to seduce Edward. If tween's can handle dark material like this, than they should probably be fine.