Unimpressed

Rating: 6/10 (9 December 2005)

Many people have said how great they found this film, personally it didn't really do it for me.
I thought it was quite sickly actually. Plus points for the special effects; Tim Burton rarely disappoints in that area, but what got me was the obvious way it tried to toy with the viewers emotions, it tried too hard to upset me, and at the end I didn't care, I knew it was manipulating the viewer and I didn't fall for it's narrative tricks. But this isn't about how clever I am, rather, how superficial I found the acting and the writing to be. There were too many clichéd characters, and I suppose that is partly the point of tall tales, but I found it boring.
It's definitely not for everyone, it left me cold and wet. Rather like a big fish.