Comedy Rated R
"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?
“…about as small as movies get, yet often, unexpectedly, as moving.
My choice for best coming-of-age movie of all time, comedic or otherwise. Director Wes Anderson, working from a script he wrote with Owen Wilson, mastered his unique craft with just his second film, a heartfelt and hilarious story about a bizarrely precocious prep-school student named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman, painfully, perfectly awkward) who learns to
Comedy Rated PG-13
“The filmmakers must have known the concept was a loser fairly early on, but they stubbornly plow ahead anyway. Sitting through the movie is like watching a car careen through a stop sign.
“Billy Bob Thornton is still wearing his Bad Santa outfit in Mr. Woodcock…
