A wonderful, magical film.

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 2010)

A charming tale from Tim Burton but without really any of his characteristic demented element that I think most of us expect from him. A personal yet utterly universal, and near-perfect Tim Burton's film, that "celebrates the one's right to be different.
Tim Burton's films have always carried a similar theme: a stranger in an average world. Big Fish is his both his attempt to reverse this theme and his masterpiece. As the main character peels back the layers of his father's deceptive past, the viewer gets closer and closer to the warm heartbeat of Big Fish. A place where dream characters are introduced into reality, and places in reality are so hard to find in your dreams. Beyond the magical story itself, the film has a sort of magic of its own as the film continuously takes shortcuts but arrives at moments with enough weight behind them that you think the whole film was about it, when in reality it was merely built up for 5 minutes. So is the way of dreams, hard to understand, but sometimes feel much more real than anything we ever experience in our waking life
10/10