Even though I had seen some ads and read some reviews, I really didn’t know what to expect from Big Fish. It has some actors in it that I really like from other movies (Helena Bonham Carter – Fight Club, Billy Crudup – Almost Famous) and some big names (Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange). And, let’s not forget that it’s directed by Tim Burton. With that in mind, you have to be expecting something just a little outside the normal. Big Fish delivers.

First off, I loved the look of the film. It’s sets are wonderful. The way the story goes back and forth between present day and the past is done wonderfully as well. I normally feel when movies jump time too often they lose the flow. This doesn’t happen because how well the story goes along with the jumps.

We took our kids with us to see it. I don’t think either one “enjoyed” the film, but, neither was running to the exit, either. However, both my wife and I loved it. It’s got a very touching ending that I won’t spoil for you here.

Before I go, just a quick rant… as I mentioned, I took my kids to see the movie. I was NOT pleased when the previews included a trailer for the new Dawn of the Dead. I understand that Big Fish is a PG-13 movie, but come on! I think they could have chosen a better trailer than that to show based on the type of movie we were about to see.

If I used the word ‘fuck’ between every 2 words in this little snippet, it would fall short by about 1000 of the times Billy Bob Thornton says it in the movie Bad Santa. The movie is wrong on SO many levels, but I haven’t laughed this much since seeing Jackass at the theater. Believe me, I realize that the fact that I enjoyed this movie as much as I did means that I am certainly going to hell, but fuck it. I’ll be laughing the entire time.

MGM is looking to make a spoof of the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies. Done in the stile of Scary Movie. It sounds like it’ll be funny. Check it out.

At the end of the movie, there was more than a couple of us looking at each other with a bit of a sideways look on our faces. We weren’t exactly sure what we had just seen. The movie was just over 2 hours in length. In that time, you would think they would have been able to work in a few more fight scenes. I realize they had a TON of story, sub-story, back-story, and psudo-story lines to clean up and complete since this is the last movie in the trilogy, but come on! I want to see Neo and Smith or the two half-bald guys or Trinity and just about anybody kicking the living crap out of each other. Instead, they put in a few too many (and too lengthy) scenes in which Trinity explains how much she loves Neo. No Shit! We knew that in the last movie (hell, we new that in the first movie!) We get it. She loves him. Move on. Fight somebody… Oh, and how about the death scenes? COME ON! Get on with it and DIE already. I think I could have gone out, gone through the long line for a soda and made it back to my seat before the scene ended.

OK, enough complaining. I really did enjoy the movie (no, really). I LOVED the fact that they killed Trinity and Neo. As sappy as the sunrise (or maybe sunset) scene was at the end, just think of how hokey it would have been to see Trinity and Neo ride off in to the sunset! That would have just been too much to take! Thankfully, they didn’t fall in to that trap.

I also really liked the plot twist where Neo lost his eyes but didn’t lose his sight. I thought that was at least inventive and made way for a couple cool effects.

I plan on seeing the movie again in a few weeks when it comes to the iMax. Hopefully my bitterness will pass and I’ll be able to enjoy the movie.

Long Live Neo….oh, wait… nevermind.