Typical Tim Burton

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2004)

This movie is typical Tim Burton. It starts slowly, but eventually he has you completely engaged in the fantasy such that you don't realize he has succeeded in getting you to "buy in" to the story until the movie ends. The photography and scenery are also extremely well done. The big fish at the beginning of the movie is not believable, but somehow that is all corrected by the end of the story.