Comedy Rated R
“Reilly has an absolute sincerity – especially in the many musical numbers – that’s essential for something this goofy.
Comedy Rated PG-13
“Juno gets two things dead right about contemporary teenagers…
Comedy Rated NR
“It would be funny even without the wigs.”
“It’s enough to make you hope that a full-blown musical is in Kelly’s future.
"Is there a point at which excessive public self-humiliation becomes its own form of warped narcissism?"
“… political at heart, even if its overall approach is comic.”
The birth of quirk, Wes Anderson style. The director and his co-writer and star, Owen Wilson, crafted an outlandish character study in a heist film’s clothing, following two unhinged friends (Owen and brother Luke) who try to erase their vague sense of discontentment by pulling off a robbery. Such endeavors always go wrong in the
Forget Max Fischer – this is Wes Anderson’s opus. A sprawling tragicomedy about the resentment and possible reconciliation that drive the Tenenbaum family, this features Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson at their most ambitious. The story just keeps spilling out of them. It’s as if they are pre-schoolers who have more to say when coloring
“Brody…has a comedian’s gangly limbs and a tragedian’s melancholy face. For the tragicomedies of Wes Anderson, that’s a perfect combination.
“Are the Farrellys (not to mention Stiller) in a creative lull, or have I always been wrong about them?
