It begins with a young Edward (Ewan McGregor), a "big fish" who was just too small for his own town and had to move away to search for brighter prospects.
Drawn back to his old Alabama hometown with his new wife, Will finally learns the truth about these so-called "exaggerated" stories-and we, as the audience, get to see them in flashback mode. One night his son, William (Billy Crudup), tires of hearing the story about how he caught the town's largest fish in a lake using a gold ring-so he ignores his father for three whole years, until his mother (Jessica Lange) informs Will that his father is dying of cancer, and that he wishes to speak with his son one last time. It stars Albert Finney as Edward Bloom, an old man who loves to exaggerate tales of his past and pass these on to his friends and family.
#TIM BURTON MOVIES CONNECTION MOVIE#
The movie doesn't quite exceed on the level it tries to, but as a film, it's one of the best motion pictures of the year. I have my doubts as to whether anyone other than Tim Burton could have pulled off "Big Fish." Here's a movie I expected I would dislike and come away feeling a little bit empty-but that's only partially true. That was Burton's breakthrough-then came "Batman," which was very good but slightly lacking in substance, and then came "Edward Scissorhands"-one of my sister's favorite films, a beautiful love story and an eerie fable.but just missing a very small ingredient that kept it from becoming a great movie (perhaps the same with his film "Ed Wood"-a very good film, but not exactly one of my all-time favorites). "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" is simply one of the best films of all time, and you can quote me on that. I didn't exactly feel like watching my favorite comedian run around with a horde of little kids cracking bad poopy jokes behind them, and I didn't want to see Eddie Murphy do this either (it was bad enough in last year's "Daddy Day Care"), so I chose to see the more adult-oriented of these three films, and I'm glad I did, because Tim Burton's "Big Fish" is a marvelous film-full of wit and imagination and eerie vibes that sometimes don't fit into Burton's films the way he wants them to-but actually have a purpose here. It was either "Cheaper by the Dozen," "The Haunted Mansion" or this.
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