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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, director Wes Anderson takes his familiar stable of actors on a field trip to a fantasy aquarium, complete with stop-motion, candy-striped crabs and rainbow seahorses. And though Anderson does expand his horizons in terms of retro-special effects and a whimsical use of color, fans will otherwise find themselves in well-charted waters. As The Life Aquatic opens, Zissou (Bill Murray), a self-involved, Jacques Cousteau-like filmmaker, has just released a documentary depicting the death of his best friend Esteban, who was eaten by some sort of sea creature--possibly a jaguar shark. Zissou’s troubles also include his waning popularity with the public, and a nemesis (Jeff Goldblum) who hogs up all the grant money. Hope arrives in the form of Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), an amiable Kentuckian who may be Zissou’s son. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for fatherhood, Zissou welcomes Ned--and Ned in turn saves Zissou’s new documentary (in which he seeks revenge on the jaguar shark) in more ways than one.
One of Wes Anderson’s greatest achievements as a director to date has been launching the autumnal melancholy phase of Bill Murray’s career, starting with Rushmore in 1998, and Murray delivers a similarly comedic yet low-key performance here. Unfortunately, Zissou is one of the few characters in this ensemble to achieve multi-dimensionality. Even co-star Wilson doesn’t get to develop Ned much beyond Noble Southerner, and he ends up seeming more like a prop for illustrating Zissou’s emotional development rather than his own man. The Life Aquatic probably won’t be remembered as a great film, but it is still one that no Anderson (or Murray) fan can afford to miss.--Leah Weathersby -- |
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...783001?v=glance
Just watched this movie.. incredibly funny in a hilarious sublte way..
highly reccomended for the open minded! |
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| Clovis86 |
"How about this, *points glock in her face* ya think this is fake?"
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| Mr. Pink |
| subtle humor alliance! :) |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
subtle humor alliance! :) |
did u see this flick javi? i just randomly rented it, had never heard of it in my life an had no idea what to expect and found myself laughing out loud which i dont normally do unless im on msn. lol |
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| Mr. Pink |
i havent yet.
i laughed at some of the previews. So i guess i should see it, then :) |
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| Protege |
| Its a great movie. If you like this then you will like Wes Andersons other movies: Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, and Bottle Rocket. |
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| TwoPlow |
| It's a great film, as are the others, but Royal Tenenbaums is the best. |
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| Subey |
| But did you watch all the credits? an important piece of the story isn't revealed till the very end. |
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| DjDeComp |
| I love this movie |
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| idoru |
| I thought the previews made it look great, but the movie itself was really disappointing. :( |
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I can't stand these types of movies. Maybe I'm not good at understanding "subtle humor". :wtf:
I'm good at eating moon pie. :wtf: |
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| Xenocreator_PG_ |
| It is one of those movies I always go "meh!" about when I walk past it on the shelf. This thread has inspired me to maybe get it. but maybe not. who knows. I might jsut download some pron instead. |
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