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movie review - Big Fish

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a Tim Burton flick. I'm beginning to think that Burton is bi-polar, or something. His movies are such a hit-and-miss collection, you never know what you're going to see. I loved Mars Attacks! (a movie with some of the finest casting of all time), Sleepy Hollow, and A Nightmare Before Christmas. But then there was Beetlejuice... and Batman. And now this.

The movie is about a man who tells stories. Stories mostly about his own life. But stories riddled with such great embellishments that his son suspects he's never known any of his father but lies.

It's an odd thing upon which to tell a movie, and there really isn't very far to take the concept, it seems. There are a number of entertaining and wonderful scenes in this movie, but they don't really come together into much of a story.

Not recommended.