Another Burton - amusement

Rating: 8/10 (25 July 2005)

Tim Burton is without doubt one of Hollywood's most interesting, original and funny directors. Now available in cinemas with his new adaptation of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Burton has given us several great and odd movies; Batman / Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks! and Ed Wood. And BIG FISH is certainly one of his best among all these. A adventurous movie that goes beyond the peculiar limit and into a sweeping fantasy world of joy and entertainment, romance and drama. Ewan McGregor stars in the main character and he meets up with dozens of amazing things in his life.
BIG FISH is one of those movies that the whole family can see, and about everyone gets the same expression. It's a very odd movie, original to it's bones with musical settings etc. Leaping at small masterpiece - moods with a dying man's past, though he knows he doesn't die of what everybody else thinks and most probably will do, because he spoke to a witch when he was kid and saw his death.
Whole the movie is build up around amusement and fascination, the experience of an adventure out of the ordinary. Tim Burton does his part very brilliantly, working always with new kind of ways to make the screen more and more amazing and flirting with our eyes, it's either the fabulous colors or simply the storytelling, time after time it's even the fine acting and good dialogs that captures his adventure into the big arenas. Though this is not that kind of movie, it's more a coming cult classic than a coming underrated classic. And BIG FISH is a very genuine movie, it doesn't imitate or make any flaws against any other, former movie or something, it stands on it's own two feet in a adventure bigger than life itself.
But in the same time; I really do understand the people that doesn't find this movie charming or good, because it has it's way of telling it's story, and it's Tim Burton after all.