The lost art of storytelling, by a master

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2004)

Leave it to Tim Burton to combine an interesting story with a vivid imagination, a heart as big as the sky, and a satisfyingly emotional ending, for his faithful audience.
I have to mention first that when I wrote a 'user comment' for "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" that I noted that when Ewan McGregor aged, he's resemble Albert Finney, and here they are playing the younger and older version of the same character. I'm not expecting a parade down Fifth Avenue, I just think it was a good call on my part.
The story is too fantastic and too great to go into now. But very few movies (I can think of "Fried Green Tomatoes" and, to a lesser extent, "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Princess Bride") as three movies which rely on storytelling to tell the story. You don't believe it all but Finney/McGregor do, and who feels like second guessing them? Tim Burton is the ideal director for the material. Its extremely moving and all the actors do wonderful work. I've seen this at least five times and it holds up very well. 10/10, and thanks Tim..without you, you can count the original minds in Hollywood on one and a half hands.