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.

This was a freakin awesome movie!

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 really like this movie and I think it is a great movie for the teens. It is not appropriate for the younger kids because of the language and adult talk such as "sh*t" is said once, d*ck is said once, a character also says "he would give his left nut to see that" Ret*rded is also said and there is also talk of rape. Charaters are also seen smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. A women charater is also very flirtatious throught the movie and in one scene she takes her shirt off revealing her bra as she sits on Edward. There is also a bully in this movie who picks on Edward and there is a fight scene with a gruesome death. Overall this is a good movie but not for the younger veiwers.

this is a classic tim burton/johnny depp, and most people I know love it, but I found it a bit pointless. It's great fun to see Johnny Depp at work in the character of a bizarre experiment gone wrong, but Winona Ryder's character and her acting were pretty annoying. The plot is a bit random and the ending leaves you unsatisfied. Nice message about acceptance, the true value of beauty, and complacent middle-class lifestyle, but unless you're a diehard fan of Burton I would skip this one.

I love this movie! It's one of my 10 favorites of all time, it's just a funny, quirky, bizarre, sad, and enchanting masterpiece--it may be a bit too odd for some viewers, but I loved how strange and unique it was. Johnny Depp creates a very sympathetic and loveable character in Edward, the half-finished experiment with knives for hands. Tim Burton is brilliant at making dark fairy tales, and he really makes this twist on the Frankenstein fable a dark and amusing film. As far as content goes, Edward Scissorhands isn't for little kids. It's a fairly tale appropriate for preteens and up, since there is one mildly sexual scene (but it's played for laughs) and the ending is dark and violent. Good for kids 10+