Made me cry, it was an emotional rollercoaster, love it, best ad ever.
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meribelmerisaar21 April 2021
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Rodrigo_Amaro4 July 2021A fantastic tribute to "Edward Scissorhands", this advertising by Cadillac stars Timothée Chalamet playing the lovely and clumsy Edgar, who has a pair of scissors as hands and his relationship with his mom (Winona Ryder) and the ordeals he has to go through life, the up's and down's of not having hands. It's a heartbreaking story with the perfect ending for the boy.
"Cadillac: How Do You Drive with Scissorhands?" is a perfect commercial that spoofs a film of success using the same dynamics of the story and it makes you dream about plenty of things like having a sequel where Johnny Depp and Winona have a kid just like him or even possibly (I dare say this) a remake of the classic Burton film with Chalamet as the star. He was noble and amazing on the role of Edgar (his sadness and loneliness are well captured here). A Super Bowl ad that is worthy of thousands of views, it's THAT good. 10/10. -
Horst_In_Translation27 July 2021If you read the full title here, then the film is almost over as this one only runs for 90 seconds. "Cadillac: How Do You Drive with Scissorhands?" summarizes that here we have a commercial for the car manufacturer Cadillac or to be more precise for their newest car that brings a technology with which you have to use your hands less than with most other cars. And in order to promote this they got prolific short film director David Shane, but most of all Oscar-nominated actors Timothée Chalamet and Winona Ryder, which is a bit special with the latter because you can say that this is pretty much a very brief sequel to the original Edward Scissorhands that teaches us about said character's son. And the father's genes have been really dominant here because Chalamet looks pretty much like Depp in that movie in terms of make-up work and how he has scissors instead of hands.
The film starts with a bit of a collection of very brief snippets how his scissors are useful when it comes to cutting pineapple for his ma or preparing meals quickly, but also with how they are not so useful when he has to take the train or the bus or struggles with his physics studies at the university. Overall, some okay inclusions, but nothing genuinely creative. The problem is also that it feels really rushed. There is easily the material here for twice or three times the running time, but as tehy only went with 1.5 minutes, it feels really too fast in my opinion and you can barely laugh at or at least smile at one inclusion before the next one is over already. The ending with the car revelation and why it is perfect for Scissorhands felt a bit forced and for the sake of it. For a commercial, it is still surely above-average, not only because of the cast, but as are rating movies on this site here, I give the overall outcome four out of ten and a negative recommendation. For a commercial, it would have been two stars more. In general, I think you can watch it if you are a big Chalamet or Ryder fan, but if not, then just skip it altogether and even if you like/love these two, don't expect greatness or anything. -
Hut_Syndrom7 December 2021This commercial is Timothée Chalamet's coronation as the new Johnny Depp.
All it needed was on shot of Edward smiling at him at one point for a glimpse of a second.
But if the company who financed this commercial decided against casting JD out of fear that his current situation might backfire thus campaign.
Once they decided not having JD, they should have also decided to scrap this loose sequel to Depp's major break out movie.