Tim Burton's Best Yet

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2005)

If there's one reason to see Big Fish it's because it's like nothing you've ever seen before. I love the work of Tim Burton and that's what mostly drew me to this movie. I honestly don't know where to begin with this review, there is just so much to say about the story and the dilemmas between the father(Edward) and the son(Albert). The movie mostly fixates itself around the stories Edward has told to his son. It begins where Edward tells the story of the day Albert is born, and how his Edward caught an uncatchable fish. During this it goes through a montage of years passing and eventually ends up where Edward is telling the story at his son's wedding and Albert not liking it. Believing that his father has lied to him throughout all the years Albert and Edward go their separate ways for a few years before Albert gets a call from his mom finding out that his father is on his deathbed. Albert decides he has to go see his dad before time runs out and find out the truth behind all the tall tales. The movie really is a very heart warming story and by the end I was choking up. The ending is really good, it's something you'll never see coming. I can see why it was nominated for 4 Golden Globe Awards and got an Academy Award Nominee for Best Original Score. The acting in this movie is outrageous. They couldn't have picked a better cast. The adventure int his movie is out of this world, and I'm not exaggerating on that. The adventure is very big indeed. Out of all the movies Tim Burton has done, Big Fish shines in his collection.