Burton's best movie since "Ed Wood"

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2017)

Tim Burton's "Big Fish" is not only his best movie since "Ed Wood" but it is also his most interesting movie that he directed since "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) and the most weird, and it is unlike any Tim Burton movie that I have ever seen. The movie starts in the present day at a wedding anniversary for Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) and his wife Sandra (Jessica Lange) but there is a secret that Will is hiding that isn't revealed until later in the movie which is that he is dying but the disease that he is fighting I will not reveal in this review for those that have not seen this movie. The movie also talks about reconciliation throughout the movie but it starts with Ed's son Will (Billy Crudup) who is annoyed at his dad reciting the same poem for his entire life but it gets better between the two of them in Will's final hours. Also during this time Will's wife Josephine (Marion Cotillard) is having a baby. During the course of the movie there is a lot of flashbacks but in the past Will is played by Ewan McGregor and it goes through Will's childhood and his time in high-school sports and his time meeting and helping a big giant who his fellow townsmen want to be killed. Also during the past he meets and falls in love with at first sight his eventual wife Sandra (Alison Lohman) but he is ironically rejected at first and then gets approved. Also in the past after Will gets married we go through his times in the Air Force during the Korean war, which all of this is Will's stories of his life that he never told anyone else which to me is very heartbreaking and touching. Burton also directed the first Warner Bros. Batman movie in 1989 which was a very good movie and it's sequel "Batman Returns" (1992) which was a terrible movie. Anyway when Will was young he also visited this small town where he met this little girl who messed with his shoes and a crazed writer named Norther Winslow (Steve Buscemi), and then that little girl is all grown up and middle aged and as a grown up she is played by Helena Bonham Carter who happens to be Burton's wife. I will not spoil anything beyond that because it is for you to find out for yourself and believe me if you like Tim Burton's movies you will most likely enjoy it.