Edward Scissorhands

Imagine life with no hands. Now imagine life with SCISSORS as hands. Even worse. That is the life that Edward lives--a man created by an inventor who died before he had the time to complete him, leaving him with nothing but scissors as hands, thus the title of the film. While this may seem a somewhat depressing premise, the movie starts out somewhat cheerfully as a woman discovers Edward living all alone and takes him to live with her. In this part, Burton does an especially great job of showing Edward's innocence as he appears childlike, intrigued by this "new world" outside his home including the waterbed in his new room.
However, Burton's display of Edward's loss of innocence is alarming. It seems to go by so quickly as everyone in the town falls in love with Edward's seemingly spotless personality until a series of events occur in which Edward is cast in a negative light. Burton abruptly thrusts Edward into an unknown realm of adulthood as one of the neighborhood ladies tries to seduce him and a boy gets him to help rob a house. Burton delves into the reality of life in this segment of the film, showing that innocence never lasts forever, especially as these stories become perverted and spread around the neighborhood.
Another part of this loss of innocence is displayed through Johnny Depp who plays Edward in the film. Without his unbelievable acting skills, this film could not be made possible considering that Edward rarely ever talks so that Depp is forced to display all of Edward's character traits through actions as well as emotions.
Overall, I would give this film a 7/10. While I loved the concepts of the movie as well as the cast, I felt that it was a liiiiiiiiittle cheesy and lacked a more serious tone in some parts though it did evoke almost all emotions at some point in the movie.