Great, on the surface

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2009)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is delightful.
It is the type of story that a parent would read to a child: a man who ages backwards in a world where everyone else ages forwards.
It contains many classic elements of a child's story: the baby bundled up and left on a doorstep for a kindly woman to adopt, the pretty cute girl who does ballet, the swashbuckling adventures at sea, the old woman on her death bed recounting her past, and so on.
But, like a child's story, there is nothing beneath the surface of Benjamin Button.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. The movie is still a beautiful one. It is just nothing more than a "story".