# Big Fish is.....

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-fish-is/221214>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 27, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-fish-is/221214 "2003-12-27T03:09:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-fish-is/221214/1 "2003-12-27T03:09:33Z")

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…really really beautiful and weird and sad and a butterfly kiss of scary. I liked it.

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**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-fish-is/221214/2 "2003-12-27T12:56:05Z")

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I liked Big Fish, too.  
Well-acted, beautiful cinematography, other-worldly as only Tim Burton can do it, but warm, and full of love.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-fish-is/221214/3 "2003-12-27T13:07:03Z")

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I was surprised that I liked it so much, and given its overt sentimentality I was surprised it moved me so much. I can’t remember the last time I cried at a movie before this. I’m a big-time sucker for goodbye scenes. But I agree with the above reviews: well-acted, quite beautiful, weird, and very well-imagined, which I guess is Tim Burton’s thing. Ewan McGregor was his typical, extremely winning self.

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**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-fish-is/221214/4 "2003-12-27T15:57:42Z")

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I loved it. It’s one of my top 5 of the year. What **Caprese** said. I especially loved how the movie had me totally fooled at a few spots (in terms of what is going to happen). I shed a tear at the end.

Ewen McGregor and Albert Finney were especially good.