Big fish

‘Big Fish’ is an extraordinary movie by director Tim Burton, a man who always makes movies that are visually interesting. With this movie we see that again. An old man named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) always told fantastic stories to his son Will (Billy Crudup). Now Edward is dying and Will wants to know the true versions of the stories, although every other person around him seems to like the fantastic version including Edward’s wife Sandra (Jessica Lange) and Will’s wife Josephine (Marion Cotillard). Edward still stays with his own versions and that is what we get to see.

The young Edward, played by Ewan McGregor, is who we follow when he meets a giant named Karl (Matthew McGrory) and when he arrives in a town named Spectre that basically is a utopia, or something like heaven. That is where he meets the famous poet Norther Winslow (Steve Buscemi) and a girl named Jenny (as a grown up played by Helena Bonham Carter). We see how he catches a very big fish, how he meets witches and ends up in a circus where Amos Calloway (Danny DeVito) runs things. And we see how he falls in love with young Sandra (Alison Lohman) and how he tries to win her heart.

Everything looks beautiful. Every new story is amazing, one with twins named Ping and Jing in particular. It is told with very funny and with moving moments as well. Especially the first half and the ending of the movie are great. A small part in the middle is a little too much of things we have already seen. Music by Danny Elfman makes this movie complete. A very entertaining and extraordinary tale through the eyes of director Tim Burton.

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