"We all end up in diapers."

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2013)

This is a Fantasy World. Benjamin Button is born old and hardly raises an eyebrow in this Parallel Universe. It is played straight and forward as the curious Benjamin ages backward. This long Movie is Fantastic in its use of unobtrusive CGI, a sort of opposite the regular overblown and overused way the Digital domain is usually employed.
Here it seems seamless. It is a touching and heartfelt Story all the way through its almost 3 Hour Running Time. The only time it is too Melodramatic is the many Scenes of the Death Bed Daisy with Her almost indecipherable Dialog and wheezing. In fact the whole method of using the Diary reading as Flashbacks might have been a mistake.
But there is much to adore in this Film and it is poignant yet not very profound. Benjamin is the nicest Guy possible and is impossible not to Love. His Life Story is not unlike most Life Stories, only that it is in reverse Time. It is a clever and catching arc, but never really is anything more than a costume for the Film to wear.
The Movie is more than tricky effects. It is slice of life put on display with a neat, nuanced niche that is a track that asks to live Life no matter what Life dishes out. It makes its case with some heavy decision making, but is never heavy handed. It is emotional and evocative in the way its Characters are all likable and that is pure Fantasy.