I've been a fan of Wes Anderson since Bottle Rockets so maybe my expectations were too high, but I just didn't get into this movie. I think the main difference between this film and his others is that while the characters in his other films were quirky and eccentric, they also seemed to have their own individual point of view with some passionate wants and needs. The characters in, "The Life Aquatic" while funny and quirky at times came off as caricatures with no real believable drive behind them. As a spoof of Jacque Cousteau and Johnny Quest there are definitely some funny moments but the story comes off as flat and turns into a bunch of "Oh, isn't that odd" moments. Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson and Willem Dafoe have a great chemistry together (Dafoe steals a lot of the movie and Cate Blanchett is an amazing actress and needs to be doing more comedy) I guess with this incredible cast and with Wes's history, I was just expecting so much more.
Review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
