A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life. Big Fish left me truly speachless, it was a great mix between fantasy and reality, fiction and non fiction, comedy and drama and just packed with some terrific perfomances from Finney/McGregor, DeVito, Helena Bonham Carter, Marion Cotillard, Bily Crudup, Jessica Lange and Alison Lohman who looked like a young Lange. The film tells it's stories quite beautiful to say the least, the soundtrack from Elfman is brilliant and the special effects outstanding. If you love movies about fantasy stories and just adventure deep beneath the woods and witches 'Big Fish' is the comedy/drama for you plus prepare the tissues.

I remember back when this movie first came out and I mostly forgot about it after awhile. I love this movie because it reminded me so much of "Forrest Gump". Both are movies that feature a guy telling his life story, about how he fell in love and got the girl he wanted, how he fought in a war, and the strange ways he affected other people's lives. Like "Forrest Gump", the audiences like it more than the critics. I thought the title would be a metaphor for something. Instead, there really is a big fish featured in this movie!I didn't even recognize Ewan McGregor. He really is quite prolific. We get to see small bits from a lot of talented actors like Danny DeVito and Steve Buscemi. Why is Steve Buscemi in everything I've been watching lately? The setup is that a dying man is telling his son the story of his life. His son tries to figure out how much of his story is true.What's interesting is that most of the people he talks about meeting do in fact appear in the movie at the end. We do, however, still get no confirmation of the supernatural stuff he mentioned, like trees coming to life. I watched this because it's the favorite movie of Nostalgia Critic cast member, Tamara Chambers! This is probably my favorite Tim Burton movie. I love how everything builds up on itself and is all relevant in the end. Don't forget this one! ****

This film hasn't got the best beginning and the story does not flow as well as could, however I found the end was quite moving and thought provoking.

HOW can a film with so many top stars result in such a piece of garbage? The answer seems to be by entering the world of "fantasy" where anything is possible, where pseudo-intellectuals abound, where cinematic mistakes can be explained away as "poetic licence", where everybody pats everybody else on the back, saying "Ain't we done well?". Where a proper storyline is passé, where pretty much anything goes in the name of "art". Honestly! This movie is a bunch of bits'n'pieces that start nowhere and go nowhere. There is nothing to recommend it; those who do are fooling themselves. Thank goodness I did not pay to see this motion picture. That is the only positive thing I can say about it. Why all these actors agreed to their roles, I cannot imagine, other than they thought they were hitching a ride on the coat tails of a flavour-of-the-month director. Tsk Tsk Tsk