Maxigumee

I saw the movie “Big Fish” last Sunday. I didn’t really know what to expect. It was all right, I suppose. Not as great as many people said it was. I suppose I’m just not a fan of that type of movie. Don’t get me wrong, the parts with Ewan McGregor were great. Those parts were very funny and magical. The thing that sort of got on my nerves was the flashback/flashforwards. I really *can’t stand* it when movies do that, interrupt the story to flash forward to the present. It should have just been the present in the beginning and end and a flashback in the middle. The other thing that really got on my nerves was the father, or the old version of Ewan McGregor’s character, Ed Bloom. Why, when they are making an emotional movie in which an old guy tells a story, must the old guy sound like he’s on the verge of death with grunting and a throat that sounds as if it’s going to burst open from the amount of phlegm that’s in it? I really, really, really don’t like that. Is it trying to make the movie more real? If so, it wasn’t doing that, it was just making it very annoying. But if you can get past the flashbacks and the annoying narrating, go see it! Many of the scenes are very good.