audreyladocki Review of Big Fish & Begonia

Big Fish & Begonia (2016)

Characters so stupid I wanted them to die

[29 August 2019]

Oh my gosh. What a terrible film! Where do I even start? Ok warning, spoilers ahead. The characters control the human world and send their children there for a week as giant red dolphins. So they put the portal they have to return through next to an enormous fishing net. In the human world. That they control. What could possibly go wrong??? Begonia has to pick the human soul she's saving from identical fish which, we are told, bear no resemblance to their human selves. Oh except for this rather handy identical scar roll eyes. And her life will end when he returns, they just don't tell her that. And her friend is completely in love with her, he just doesn't tell her that. And her mum bins the fish she trades half her life for, she just doesn't tell her that. Like, really? You all have magical powers but you can't have a conversation about anything? Ever?? Not even really important stuff like dying??? But of course they can't go back because rat lady took the item from the human world and you need one of those to get there, although none of them needed one to get there that started this whole mess in the first place. And obviously this is going to cause their whole world to end because the human soul, from the human world, that they control, that they brought back, with THEIR OWN MAGIC, is in their world so they're all going to die. By this point I really wanted them to, because they're all so stupid they deserve to die!!! Just have a conversation people!!! And of course the guy that loves her trades HIS life so she can go to the human world. But no, he's not going to TELL her that, of course not, he's just going to spring it on her at the last minute so she can be all like no no, I don't want to live in the human world. Good. Just all go die then because you're all so stupid.