More than just a Tim Burton movie

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2004)

Most Tim Burton films are wild fantasies glorified by the elaborate characters and settings. While this film had all that it also contained something much more, a human element. Films like Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow had this element, but it was always on a much darker level. Big Fish makes the viewer look at themselves and their family. How does that person relate to his or her father? That's the truly lasting element of this film is the way it can strike a cord in the heart of the viewer. Compare that with Burton's other films and it's just a little bit more.