Wednesday, November 12, 2003

IF THERE'S A PING-PONG SCENE, ALL BETS ARE OFF: Hollywood Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells hails Tim Burton's upcoming holiday flick Big Fish today, calling Burton's appreciation of a tale-telling Alabaman "storybook surreal, magical and fantastical . . . Burton's most emotionally affecting work since EDWARD SCISSORHANDS." Even noted NYT/VF sourpuss Lynn Hirschberg wrote Sunday that its "extraordinary ending . . . is a perfect melding of the visual and the verbal: the words are bolstered, rather than overwhelmed, by Burton's artistry.

Yeah, okay, but a good friend of mine saw it in previews Monday night. His review: "I liked it better when it was called FORREST GUMP."

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