Its a well-made Chinese poetry

Its so heartbreaking yet very warm and loving. This movie will give you a mixed of fantasy and reality. The story is heavy, amazing and worthy.

This animation is a good attempt from the Chinese to recreate something as nice as the Japanese studio Ghibli movies.It is a thoughtful wonder piece.Make sure you watch until the credits, there is another shirt scene!!This film is about adventure, sacrifice?, love and magic.Slight spoiler alert:It is about the real world, the spiritual world and how a girl from the spirit world is saved by a human who dies saving her, but the girl from the spirit world wants to repay his kindness by giving her life in exchange for him coming back to life in the real world.Animation was good. Sound track was good too. Enjoy!

The best movie I've seen in quite a while. The music and artwork are beautiful and immersive. The story is a parable, so not easy to understand initially. But the more times I watch it the more richness and depth I discover in the story. This is a movie that takes some serious thinking and reasoning, not cheap entertainment.

Its blend of 2D and CG animation uses a radiant palette, and its story moves between the spirit and animals worlds with an undercurrent of yearning and waves of pure delight.

... casually and consistently charming in ways that transcend generation gaps and cultural boundaries.

From a visual standpoint, Big Fish & Begonia is never less than breathtaking.

The picture is also further evidence that no matter how beautifully rendered it is or how complex the emotional context, and Big Fish & Begonia is both beautiful and complex, any shot of a sea creature leaping over a human will invoke Free Willy.

Chinese animation makes a confident play for art and relevance with this swell of myth, nature, adolescent turbulence and fantasy intrigue that impresses more often than it organically dazzles, and yet succeeds mostly because of its beating heart.

Rather than be about finding eternal life like many tales of its kind are, Big Fish & Begonia is about giving it.

It marks a major step forward for Chinese feature animation, as well as the culmination of a journey that took the filmmakers more than a dozen years to complete.

Big Fish and Begonia offers audiences a richly realized world with a fascinating tale, and a blushing romance. It's absolutely lovely, tip to tail.

Never short on visual or emotional wonder, "Big Fish & Begonia" contemplates mortality with the imagination of an old soul who has been given new eyes.

A sweet and lyrical fantasy film filled with inviting visuals and inventive characters that might, if nothing else, make you look at dolphins in an entirely different way.

In the sly exchanges between the teenage protagonists and their elders, the film reflects a nation's shifting tides.