sperman

This will be for sure one of the top ten of 2004! I loved Big Fish! Burton's back with his traditional symbolic tale, so full of poetry, so delicate in it's metaphores. It makes you smile, it makes you feel good... and it makes you think. Ewan McGregor is very good, and so are the other actors, with an exception maybe for Cudrup, who's a bit too fake and makes a bit too much the "serious son". Dialogs are excellent (I love Senior Ed Bloom, who ALWAYS has a story ready, an answer ready!), scenes are excellent and the whole movie is drowned in Burton's poetry. Excellent movie! Definitely a "must" of the year, and not only for Burton's fans.

What can I say about "Finding Nemo"? it's almost perfect! Animation is astonishing, looking at times even more than real when rendering landscapes and movements. Characters are very well developed, escaping even the stereotypes of classic cartoons (like the sharks or the sea-turtles). The story is sweet but not cheesy, in the perfect "old Disney" style, with a bit of sadness in the beginning and a nice happy ending. The animation on its whole was (of course) made for children and "toon lovers", but it's also full of small details which can entertain the "common daddy" who's taking his child to the movies. This is a masterwork. Absolutely.