Every Tim Burton Film Ranked From Worst To Best

Big Fish is an incredibly charming film based on the novel written by Daniel Wallace, and has such an incredible sense of storytelling. The film has this wonderfully wholesome message about focussing on the content and moral of a story as opposed to its logic and realism, as embellishing the truth isn't the same as lying.

The narrative in the movie tells of Will Bloom talking to his father Ed Bloom as he lies on his death bed. The son spends the runtime attempting to filter the fact from fiction within the ridiculous tall tales that his father has told him of his life, as it is evident from the beginning that the ridiculous nature of his existence is exaggerated.

Still like everyone else in Ed Bloom's life, you are suckered in by his extraordinary gift for narration, and soon the truth matters less and less.

The focus on whimsical and wholesome occurrences is of the upmost benefit to this movie. It is an uplifting and emotional tale that has some great lessons, superb acting and - like many Burton projects - outstanding art direction.