Likely an unpopular opinion, but I found it all style and no substance. I agree with this critic:
“The trouble is there’s just not enough here to fully engage the viewer beyond the trademark aesthetics — no emotional pull or lingering feeling and too few genuine laughs. For a movie so curiously weightless it seems awfully pleased with itself, its moments of magic evaporating almost instantaneously.”
Honestly, perfect gummy fodder. Need to watch it again in different circumstances.
Dug it. Good Wes Anderson flick. The meta play stuff was an interesting area to explore for him. It wasn’t “amazing” execution of that type of stuff but admirable and I appreciate him trying new things out.
I think that he knows that people know his formula too well and decided to flip it on its head a bit.
It was quite a jarring experience at first, and I like a lot of Wes Anderson’s work. But it’s grown on me a lot over the last few weeks. He tried something new and I like that in a director. I need another rewatch with rewind to fully get it I think.
It was very Wes Anderson although he did add an extra meta angle presumably to wrong-foot everyone using AI to make Wes Anderson-style parodies.
Basically, you’ll have a rough idea of whether you’ll like it based on your Wes Anderson tolerance levels. I have reasonable tolerance, I like some films a lot but others can grate a bit, but I found this to be a lesser Wes Anderson. There were a couple of funny bits though.
I thought that one of the few subplots was a bit unnecessary, without spoiling anything.
Which one? One should expect spoilers in a review thread, no?
With Steve Carrell.
I liked it. It was very much his style, almost absurdly so. Too many characters made the whole movie feel like an introduction, I was surprised when it ended because it felt like it was just getting into it. The meta stuff was fun, but I see how others could see it as a bit self-indulgent.
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen or doesn’t like Wes Anderson. Its not his best work, but it’s still a great movie. I’ll rewatch it.
Yes! Wife and I described it as, “If Wes Anderson did Wes Anderson.” It was definitely the most Wes Andersony film to date, in my opinion.
There are so many actors with so many micro interactions that the story line is literally imploded.
The worst Anderson’s movie.
Will someone please take away his budget? It clearly stays in the way of his creativity.It was my first wes anderson movie. He is a fucking genius ! Everything and i mean everything is done for a purpose. every shot, cut, music, ,etc. I loved it !
