Big Fish

I've got to start reading books before they become movies.... Naw!

Tim Burton's film is quite good based on the book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Southern writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace. Billy Crudup stars as the son of a traveling salesman who tells presumably tall tales of his life rather then tell the truth. Crudup is home for his father's last days, listening to more stories of his father's life starting with how he met his wife. Ewan McGregor plays the father as a young man. He's plays his part to a T. Wide eyed and sappy at times, McGregor takes us on a ride of the way life should be, interesting and full of beautifully fun people and places. Crudup wonders if there's any truth in his father's stories, he's spent more of his life fabricating than in touch with what's real. He comes to grips with his lifelong misunderstanding of his father, and he learns that there's a little of dad in himself that he can hold onto when his father passes.

It's a beautiful movie to watch with full, rich colors and imagination appeal juxapostioned with the reality of the end of someone's life. I hope we all can go out having a life like this to talk about.

Rent this. This is one big fish that's a keeper.

Worth the money rating: $$$$