Pointless...

Rating: 3/10 (22 August 2004)

I had high hopes for the film as I imagine most people doing seeing as its been getting good reviews.
If anyone could give me back the two hours I just wasted I'd be most appreciative. The stories told were uninteresting and pointless, the characters were paper thin and I was not given the chance, nor wanted in the end, to get to know them and actually care what happened to them.
The acting was good, the cinematography was good but sadly thats where the good bits end. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a massive fan of Burton but even then god knows how he got away with this. It was just totally uninspiring, uninteresting, unengaging and down right boring. The story was predictable and simple with nothing to entice the watcher into he world he was trying to create with each story piece.
Personally I'd recommend watching something with a lot more thought to it, if you like the fantasy type genre then Princess Mononoki is a prime example of great story telling and well executed drive.
Big Fish - 3, and if the actors were bad, then it'd have been a 1. Seriously.