Ian (Flash Review)This is based on a true story of Margaret Keane, a single mom and painter of figures with big eyes, who meets another painter fellow who hit it off. She isn't good at selling her work but he is a master at mingling and selling. He sort of backs into claiming her paintings as his and she reluctantly allows it as they are making money. He sells and markets the crap out of them, bringing in world-wide notoriety. From that point on, Margaret tries to deal with living the lie. How will that affect her marriage, relationship with her child and her own pride? The story was well-told with interesting scenes and a Burton-esc purposeful color pallet, atmosphere, symbolism and framing of scenes. Waltz and Adams's character portrayals were fun and filled with depth and variety. Very enjoyable.

dierregi Loosely based on a "real" story, the plot is about Margaret, a divorced mother and the painter of kitsch big-eyed children, reproduced on countless every-day items that infested the markets some decades ago. For many years Margaret allowed her second husband, Walter Keane, to claim authorship for her work, while she churned out one canvas after the other and lied to everybody.I am not a Burton's fan and I watched this at home, because it did not seem worth of a cinema outing. I also find those kiddies'paintings very kitsch and did not care much about the author, therefore my expectations were low. Turns out, not low enough.Amy Adams is a good actress, but even she cannot make a sympathetic character out of a woman who - allegedly - lied to her own daughter for years and secretly painted hundreds of canvas of creepy kids to please her hubby. How did she do that? Apparently Margaret's studio was a locked room and her daughter did not found that weird….Christoph Waltz is unfortunately in full sociopath-Hans Landa mood, therefore unbearable. I never liked him much and I positively detested this interpretation. The courtroom scene is hard to bear. It was not Johnny Depp playing weirdo yet again in a Burton movie, but that did not improve the plot.I am not sure what would constitute a spoiler for this, since the plot is so bad and the movie irrelevant. However, I will not disclose the "surprise ending", even if you can find out what happened with a simple search.

moonspinner55 A portrait of the real-life Keanes, San Francisco married couple of the late 1950s and '60s: Walter is a braggart and storyteller (i.e., a good liar) who is masterful at promoting his wife Margaret's paintings of saucer-eyed waifs--but when it comes down to turning the spotlight on the actual artist, he seizes an early opportunity to take credit for the work himself, even though he has absolutely no artistic talent. A study of ego, delusion and, that old standby, how success destroys a marriage, each theme taking precedence over the process of artistic creation. Tim Burton directed, and was obviously more interested in Walter's preening self-importance and Hollywood hobnobbing than in Margaret's inspirations (she churns out paintings--off-camera--at a rapid pace). Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams are unconvincing as the Keanes, neither able to overcome Burton's uncomfortable imbalance of moods gleaned from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's curiously thin screenplay. As a movie about art, "Big Eyes" is surely a failure, with a timeline presented to us in shorthand. Viewers attracted by the picture's nostalgic trimmings--as a jaunt back in time to a simpler era--might enjoy it, even though the family dynamics are a mess and Waltz's larger-than-life portrayal gets more annoying as the film progresses. *1/2 from ****

Abdelhamid Moawad Big Eyes: a must see movie for all female fighters because it could happen, if it didn't happen already and also because its a true story. It starts with a love bound created between Margaret and Keane two amateur painters, an unconditional love. They started to help each other to succeed as professional painters but after a while Keane found out that her talent overcome his so he started to focus on selling her work with his own name on it. When she started to feel that he is not helping her but he is helping only himself she went for advice but she came back with nothing and continued on painting with the name of her husband. Finally a critic appears played by one of the greatest British actors Terence Stamp to change her course of her life forever to give herself a chance for redemption, to take her own advice rather than others and to stop thinking about Keane and because he is weak he threatens to kill her so she ran away and with the help of her daughter which acted through the whole movie as a wake-up call, finally Margaret stand against Keane and at the end her talent proved him wrong in-front of everyone. On a second thought this movie is not only for female fighters, its also for anyone who thinks that talent could be stolen cause it could be borrowed but never stolen. Big Eyed people will somehow try to kill your talent but not for long cause your talent will find a way to prevail. One important thing in this movie there is a lot of Oscar nominations and winners from cast and crew.