Nowhere near as magical as the book.

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2005)

As soon as I started reading Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, I absolutely could not stop. I was attached to the book and finished it about a week before the movie came out. But I walked out of that theatre so completely appolled and disappointed. So many things were different in a bad way. For instance, Jenny Hill did not live in the strange town Edward passed through, and was never a little girl in the story, not once. He didn't leave her home without having an affair with her in the story. The whole story about his time in the war is different. They left out the greatest parts in the story, and instead of making the beautiful proof that his father's tall tales were real at the end, it was a dream in the movie. And that's not even every horrible mistake. I was just so disappointed. I didn't think Tim Burton did well with this story at all. To me, he's just not as great as everyone thinks he is.