Review: ‘Big Fish’ on 4K Ultra HD ★★★★☆

Click below to read my review of Tim Burton’s unsung classic.

Dan Owen
Dans Media Digest

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It feels like Tim Burton was trying to transition into more mature fare with Big Fish, after focusing so much on lighthearted genre oddities in the 1980s and ’90s. This story offers an even split between the magical realism one expects from Burton, and a grounded human drama with lots to say about how people are remembered after they pass. Isn’t storytelling the root to immortality? Burton’s parents died a few years before he agreed to make Big Fish, and those losses reportedly had a big effect on him, despite not being especially close to his mother and father when they were alive. Writer John August’s dad had also just passed away when he first read Big Fish, so this project struck gold in being ushered to life by two real-life Will Bloom types.

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