Nice idea but executed poorly

Rating: 2/10 (21 March 2011)

I don't think I ever had a movie I really wanted to see and than desperately hoped for the end to come soon like with "Big Fish". Not only did I get very bored halfway through but also very frustrated. It does have very nice ideas and I really liked the example of a father telling people stories. It is something I love to do. The problem however is that the father puts himself as the big hero making him sound cocky and arrogant. I think good storytellers should be modest. That is of course only my opinion. The second big problem were the stories itself. They were nice enough to sparkle an interest but they were leading nowhere which was the frustrating part. Most characters in the stories are not really worked out well in depth, meaning I didn't't really care for them. By the end I didn't really care if the father told the truth or not. I was hoping for some movie with a nice fantasy theme but I got some artsy bundle of clichés. I like Tim Buton's movies but not this one.