How to make a grown man cry

Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2005)

I think that the male ego prevents much emotion being shown on a regular basis. Certainly, I find that that is the case myself. However, there have been a few occasions where I have found the smallest traces of water forming in my eyes whilst watching a film. Yes, I guess they would just about constitute tears! Anyway, there are quite a few comedies that have generated tears of laughter, quite a few films that have had me crying through boredom. But I don't think that any film has generated proper heart felt emotion and made me blub as much as Big Fish.
The story centres on the relationship between a dying father and his son. The father is a story teller, and his whole life as told to his son has been greatly exaggerated, and turned into a fairytale. Realising that his father is dying, the son wishes to try and understand who he really is, and to discover the truth amongst the fiction.
I'm sorry, I realise that this makes the film sound very dull, but it most certainly is not - it is both tear jerkingly sad, yet uplifting. Tim Burton again using his genius imagination to make this film, and its larger than life characters and fairy tales, really come to life. Albeit, an exaggerated lie of a life.
I won't pretend that this film would be to everyones taste, but I do think that it deals with both life and death in a very uplifting way, and as such everybody should give it a few hours of their time.