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Like Big Fish and The Neverending Story, this is a film that reminds us that life, coloured by our perceptions, is what we make it; all we have to do is believe.

Infused by an awkward decorum; the kind that descends on a gathering dominated by an unmentioned death or transgression.

Stands alongside -- if not above -- Adaptation as one of the best films about the process.

A successful mix of literary adaptation, meta-fictional discourse and inside-showbiz comedy. Both funny and clever.

There's nothing very profound here, but we do at least get a nice handling of period and milieu, and pretty good performances of the songs.

What pulls you over the bum spots is the electrifying immediacy.

Is whimsicality the last refuge of the mediocre?

Only sporadically entertaining.

Intensely colourful, but somehow soulless.

Director Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe adapted McCabe's novel for this bland 1998 shocker that fails miserably as satire, character study, and anything else it might have aspired to.