Superb - for any age

Rating: Null/10 (18 February 2004)

I can only say as I see. I took my eight year old little boy to see 'Big Fish' last night. I was completely carried away by this wonderful tale told so brilliantly well by Tim Burton but I think it spoke volumes that my little boy did not fidget or speak all through the two and a half hours' meander through the mind of a dying man and his son's assumptions that everything his father has ever told him is a big fib! Leaving the superb and imaginative special effects aside, the story is an insight into the life of a kind and generous man who only wants to make the lives of those around him more pleasant and Tim Burton has succeeded in putting it across in a most amusing and moving way. This is not a sickly sweet weepie - although I cried for at least the last 15 minutes of the film - and Tim Burton fans will enjoy the off kilter and slightly unnerving undercurrents that make his films a genre on their own! If 'Big Fish' is anything to go by - onwards and upwards with Willy Wonka - another of my eight year old's favourite characters! Well Done Tim Burton!!!