One Fish, Two Fish ⇒

Small Fish, Big Fish! Yesterday, Christine and I went out on a veeery expensive date. Dinner was in the coupon book and we used Airmiles to buy the movie passes! The whole evening cost us $15!! Woah, big spenders!

Anyway, on to the movie review. Big Fish is Tim Burton's latest effort and it is a very good movie. I was expecting typical Burton darkness, but I found this film quite refreshing actually. It stars Albert Finney as the old Edward Broom and Ewan MacGregor Broom the younger. Apparently Ewan was casted due to the likeness between him and a young Finney. The basic premise is that Edward's son (Billy Crudup) grew up listening to his father's wild tales and stopped believing them when we was an adult. Now his father is dying and he attempts to reconcile with his father. So the story is told from two viewpoints, one in the present and one in the past with Ewan. We learn about how he (Edward) met his wife and all of his eccentric friends and his various jobs. The people that meets sure are odd!

There are great side performances from Alison Lohman, Jessica Lange and Danny DeVito and in the end, you are unsure if the stories were actually true, or if people just wanted them to be true so much that they made them true in their minds. It well worth seeing and one of Burton's best, I think.