“Simply Magical”: Rated 4.4 out of 5, this is Tim Burton’s best film… and contains one of the most beautiful scenes of his career

Five years after Dumbo (and counting the Netflix series on Wednesday, for which he signed on for several episodes), Tim Burton is back in the movies. And he jumps three decades into the past, diving back into the world of Beetlejuice. His second feature film, but the one that introduced him to the wider public, before Batman took charge of Home.

36 years later, a demon played by Michael Keaton discovers the Dietz family facing grief in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. And Tim Burton still connects to the world he invited us into in 1988, as well as in the spirit of his original in certain scenes. While you wait to find out where he ranks in his filmography (at the box office and in the hearts of the public), do you know what his highest-rated film on AlloCiné is? The answer should hardly surprise you.

Far ahead of Big Fish (4.2), Sleepy Hollow (4.1), Funeral Wedding (4) or even the first Beetlejuice (3.9, like Batman, Ed Wood and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), it’s Edward Scissorhands that sits on top . Tim Burton’s filmography averages 4.4. And this should not surprise many, since the feature film is not far from unanimous approval and established him as an author, between the two roundabouts of Gotham City.

A modern and timeless retelling of the Frankenstein myth in which Tim Burton identifies with the imperfect being with whom he shares the same shadow invasion: “monster” Which gives birth to the beauty in these interchangeable American suburbs that haunts her. and his second collaboration (of four) with Winona Ryder, as well as his meeting with his future muse Johnny Depp.

With the help of set and costume designers, as well as Danny Elfman’s music, they give birth to a fairy tale with symphonic accents that reaches new heights with celebrities. “ice dance”A poetic ode to monsters and the magic of cinema, which remains one of the most beautiful scenes of its author’s career. And that alone can explain Edward Scissorhands’ love of appreciation.

Some excerpts from the reviews of Internet users who gave Edward Scissorhands a maximum rating of 5 out of 5.

JokerDreizen: “A work that expresses poetry and emotion. Johnny Depp, who was so young at the time, perfectly portrays the man with the scissor hands: innocent, shy, intelligent and tortured, so much so that just seeing his face captivated me. The audience’s desire to cry is quickly succumbed to the unbearable old gossip Full of neighbors and forever unfinished creation, with terrible scissor hands, but full of charisma and passion I have not seen for a long time, a funny film tinged with brilliant darkness.”

Mark L: “Edward Scissorhands is just a very beautiful film. All magic, stunned wonder and sublime genius. Burton has created one of his greatest films, the most beautiful, the most moving, the most human, in short, he put his heart into it. It (…) it is indescribable , you have to see and feel deep within yourself to understand, to be moved and to weep before this masterpiece of beauty and emotion, the ending of which is so moving that it is far beyond anything that can happen to us as mere moviegoers.”

Here’s Tim Burton’s genius like we haven’t seen in a while, with a funny film tinged with brilliant darkness.

videoman29: “How can we not succumb to the surreal beauty of the images, the originality of the script, but above all the sensitivity of the strange characters who live in this timeless tale (…) This masterpiece of tolerance and love is admirable. For others and for accepting differences, I’m not stupid and I don’t want to fall into absolute angelicity… However, I like this world view and I enjoyed re-discovering this simply magical film immensely.

Legend 13: “An essential work of the 7th art. A gem of cinema. One of his director’s greatest films and certainly his most poetic. A funny, exciting, exciting film. A love story in its purest form. A grand fairy tale. It depicts a greedy, arrogant society that Afraid of what he can’t control or understand, Tim Burton is in true grace and signs to perfection here.

Alexis D.: “It is skillfully executed, sometimes sadly funny and above all poetic, gothic, romantic and tragic poetry, the secret of which only Tim Burton has and is beautiful sets, costumes and make-up. It is ultimately one of Tim Burton’s best films.

A grand tale depicting a greedy, arrogant society that fears what it cannot control or understand.

Ranger: “Between love and cruelty, jealousy and the fear of difference, Edward Scissorhands is undoubtedly one of Burton’s best achievements. After several creations, each as successful as the next, for example Beetlejuice (1988), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Les Noces funèbres ( 2005), he has a film full of magic and mystery, where pop art reigns, just like five years later. Mars Attacks! (1996)”.

Sword Man: “I cry like crazy when I see Winona Ryder dancing under the snow that Edward creates by cutting a block of ice with Danny Elfman’s magical and brilliant music and I continue to cry when the lovers say goodbye. It’s a great disappointed poet. Fairytale, the word masterpiece is a euphemism to describe it, it’s absolute , images and music fill your head, it’s a waking dream.”

and you Were you enchanted by Edward Scissorhands?