This movie, directed by Tim Burton, was released in 1990. Peg Boggs is a door-to-door make-up sales person who is having a bad day, and she decides she could try the old creepy mansion on top of the hill. There she enters into a beautiful garden, making her think that someone does live here. She enters into the attic and discovers this man (named Edward) with scissors for hands. She takes pity on him and brings him to live with her in her suburban neighborhood. She takes him in as one of the family, and soon he becomes quite useful in shaping hedges and landscaping the neighbor’s gardens. He then does dog hairstyles, soon after switching to human haircuts. Kim, Peg’s teenage daughter, starts to feel accustomed to having Edward around, and Edward, from the moment he had seen Kim, he had fallen in love with her. Except that now, the neighborhood starts to see a dangerous side to his razor sharp ‘scissor fingers’, and Edward has to deal with all the new emotions he feels, plus the growing mob of people who disapprove of his special condition.

I enjoyed this movie because it has beautiful music (from Danny Elfman), and it is a very moving and yet unoriginal story. Moving in the sense that it is a heartfelt tale of unexpected love, but unoriginal in the sense that a ‘monster’ shows up, he falls in love with the beautiful girl, but is chased away by the angry mob. Apart from this, there is some humour if you can see it, but it is mostly a ‘romantic tragedy’. I definitely recommend this movie.

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Sweeney Todd [...], directed by Tim Burton, is based on the famous legend of the killer of Fleet Street. Released in 2007, Burton decided to make a horror/musical of this legend. With Johnny Depp as Benjamin Barker, a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ms. Lovett, it is set in London. The movie starts with a boatentering the dock and a young man on the boat admiring London. Sweeney appears and tells his tale to Anthony, the young sailor admiring London. Sweeney was married to a beautiful wife and they had a daughter. Judge Turpin was jealous and falsely imprisoned Todd to get to his wife. Sweeney goes back to his old barber shop and meets Ms. Lovett, who owns the unsuccessful meat pies shop underneath the shaving parlor. Todd learns from Ms. Lovett that his wife Lucy poisoned herself and Todd goes on a wild killing spree, his objective to kill the man who caused him all this misery, Ms Lovett at his side helping him fulfill his desire.

I rather liked the notion of creating a musical with this gory horror. It makes the characters express their feelings more easily. I liked this movie even though it is rated R, due to the constant throat-splitting. I particularly liked Ms. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) because of the way she sang and she spoke like a true old english speaker, accent and pronounciation all perfect.

I suppose the main theme is being blinded by strong emotions, jealousness, love, hatred etc. For example, Todd is blinded by hatred and kills many people without affection, almost killing them routinely. Ms. Lovett is blinded by her love for Sweeney that she does horrible things to prove she would do anything for him. Another major theme is taking advantage of one’s power. The judge uses his job and his power among London for his own good. He prosecutes and imprisons Benjamin Barker on false charges to get rid of him and to be able to get to his wife.

I recommend you see this movie and I nominate it a “Must See”. Although there are some gory scenes, and some songs are longer than they should be, I truly enjoyed this movie.

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A movie directed by Shane Acker, 9 was released on the 9th of September 2009. Produced by Tim Burton, this animated adventure drama sci-fi is set in a post-apocalypse era where man is extinguished by its own creations, machines.
It starts with a rag doll, with the inscription 9 on its back, awakening. He has no voice and is visibly confused. He picks up and examines an object that was near him and finding the inscriptions on it very intriguing, he takes it and stores it in his stomach, accessed by a zipper. He opens up a blind and we see a very dark and dreary place with only ruins of buildings left. He spots something moving on the ground and finds another rag doll called 2. 2 fixes 9′s voice and they meet, although “Beast” shows up and carries away a screaming and pleading 2. 9 falls unconscious and wakes up in a sanctuary where other rag dolls are hiding. He is helped by a doll with only one eye called 5. He and 2 were great friends. He convinces 5 to go and save 2, but number 1, the leader, a great coward who only thought of hiding and his burly side kick 8 followed him, disagreed. 9 and 5 try to save 2 but 9 places the object he found in a slot which matches it and accidentally activates a lethal machine, called Brain. Brain kills 2 but numbers 9 and 5 are saved by brave adventurous 7. 7 takes them to her hideout and they meet 3 and 4, twins who have photographic memory and no voice. These dolls try to find out what they had awoken and shortly after they went to warn number 1 and 8, who tag along in their great adventure to stop Brain, who has the ability to create other machines using the debris around it.
I liked the animation and the variety of characters, each one having a different personality. 1, the so-called leader yet nothing but a selfish coward, 2, wise and elderly, 3 and 4, the childish twins, 5, the loyal yet scared of everything friend, number 6, who is the crazy artistic one, who seems to know alot about Brain. 7, the only “girl”, adventurous and brave, 8 the great muscled doll, and 9, the hero of the story, who has a sense of loyalty and bravery and cunning.
One thing I didn’t like about this movie was the attempted romance in which what can only be classified as an animated action movie.

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