Tim Burton is the best!

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2004)

This is just an incredible movie, and Tim Burton is just an incredible director. He just seems to be able to get the most out of his stories and the most out of his actors.
In Big Fish, he expertly crafts a warm story of family reconciliation with a surreal journey into the past of the family patriarch, Ed Bloom. Burton is able to get the most out of both the story and the actors. There are no weak performances in this movie. Everyone from Albert Finney as the older Ed to Billy Crudup as his estranged son to Ewan MacGregor as the young adventurer to Danny Devito as the carny ringmaster are ideally cast.
I had only moderate expectations when I went to see this movie, but I came out of it as one of Tim Burton's biggest fans. He just may be the biggest fish in the current generation movie making pond!