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All teen and kid reviews for Big Fish

Age
11
Average rating based on 15 kid and teen reviews:
  • 40% say there are positive messages
  • 33% say violence is an issue
  • 27% say there are positive role models
  • 27% say sexual content is an issue
Teen, 14 years old
March 24, 2010
 
This movie is INCREDIBLE! Tim Burton is at his best, it is just soo good! It's imaginative, dark, beautiful and touching all at the same time, a tale of love, death, fantasy, and everything else! It's great, but there is some brief backside nudity on a female, some mild swearing (nothing to worry about) and some violence which could be scary to littlies. An imaginative yet mature fantasy film with a great cast including Ewan McGregor and Marion Cotillard, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, and many other people with a similar interest in films should too!

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Teen, 17 years old
April 9, 2008
 
Can i give it more than five stars?
I loved this movie. It was amazing, thought provoking. Tim Burton is my favorite director, and this is my favorite by him. I loved this movie, and the last scene is beautiful. I don't want to give anything away, but i will say that thi movie was truely amazing!

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Teen, 14 years old
November 14, 2009
 
:)
One of m favorite movies... Great Movie...

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Teen, 17 years old
December 31, 2008
 
awesome... :)
I LOVE this movie!! tim burton is a genius! I don't like fantasy movies,but I love this one... it's awesome... fantastic...amazinG!

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Teen, 17 years old
April 8, 2010
 
the best movie for starters, kids, teens, and adults
I dont remember the movie having something linked to sex. Im 15 and I saw it like 3 years ago and I looved it because it was super entertaining and it didnt have bad messages. Ive seen it around 4 times and I dont get bored. It makes you think about life and you dont even notice it. I fully recommend it

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Teen, 14 years old
February 13, 2011
 
Good movie

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Kid, 13 years old
August 25, 2010
 
AWSOME MOVIE!! BRAVO!
3 days ago my mom rented me this movie and she said i would like it so we watched it and it was amazing! Its great for tweens and teens!

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Kid, 12 years old
February 19, 2011
 
My Big Fish Review
A moving story. But I found that it can be a bit confusing in some bits of it. I would recommend it to anyone between 10 and 10000!

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Teen, 17 years old
November 22, 2009
 
oh god, the end made me cry...
***contains spoilers*** I read the book and the movie was even better! I liked Big Fish because it's one of those stories where you make up the ending. you could say that Will finally understood his father's love of storytelling, and thats who he was, or you could say the ending was a made up story and Edward's stoires were all lies. I just loved it! There is nudity, but you couldn't possibly be offended by it, none of it being sexual in any manner. and there are some kids who cuss, which I was suprised by but hey life happens. i think this movie is even more memorable than Forrest Gump. Full of inspirational quotes. I highly recomend it for elven and up!

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Teen, 18 years old
April 9, 2008
 
This is by far one of the most moving and beautiful movies that I have seen in my life. It tells, to put it briefly, the tale of a son coming to terms with his dad, and how sometimes the legend is more important than the straight facts. The most moving scene comes at the end, when the son goes to his father's funeral, and finds that, after all, the tales that are recounted throughout the movie are true. There are the twins, though not Siamese, the giant, though perhaps not quite so tall as he imagined, and all of the other characters, major or minor, "real" or imagined. This is movie-making at its finest.

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Teen, 16 years old
February 18, 2009
 
Incredible
Incredible and creative this movie is awesome. You do briefly twice see a woman's bare bottom.

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Teen, 16 years old
April 24, 2010
 
Easily one of Burton's best
Among his directed, non-Depp colloborations, like "Beetlejuice" and "Batman," Burton gives us another weird but really visually amazing story about a man who's led so many tall-tales he's gotten lost in them. Great for Burton fans, but also great for fans of cinema, who just like being entertained with a great script.

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Kid, 11 years old
December 28, 2011
 
My favorite movie
This movie is soooo not "teens and up" This has been my favorite movie since I was 7. Every single time we trips I watch this in the car. This movie is perfectly appropriate for little children its just that they may not understand the real meaning of it. This is a wonderful movie! You have to go see it.

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 

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Kid, 10 years old
May 3, 2012
 
"Big Fish" is a big hit!
"Big Fish" is a big hit! Tim Burton's wonderful drama/love story is an iffy choice for kids 12 and up. This film delivers brief nudity of a women's and man's rear. The language is tame except for a few uses of the "b" word, "idiot", "dam", and "ass". Some scary moments are implied throughout the film and there is a little bit of drinking. In the end, "Big fish is a touching film and is and iffy choice for ages 12 and up.

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