A warm and fuzzy story on a bitterly cold night

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2004)

I had the choice between Big Fish and Cold Mountain. I don't know how Cold Mountain stacks up, but Big Fish thoroughly met my expectations. This being a Tim Burton movie, I expected larger than life characters, implausible situations and great camera work. I got all that, plus a touching and fantasy-filled story. Just what I needed, with the wind howling and -30 C weather outside.
After seeing this movie, I realise that when my kids ask me what happened when they were born, I need to come up with something better than "Your mom was in labour for 24 hours, see, and she was screaming bloody murder and then you were born."
L