I just saw The Life Aquatic, the latest Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) movie--we get everything a few months late here. Anderson forges deeper into the territory he began exploring with Rushmore, but I think Rushmore is a more coherent and elegant script. Bill Murray is playing basically the same character as in Rushmore (and Lost in Translation)... the sad sack former star whose fame has run out. Because we've seen it before I think it starts to wear a little thin in this movie.
There are some really good moments in Life Aquatic though, and the secondary characters are fantastic. I'm glad the other characters get enough screen time- from the intense German first mate who only wants to be liked, to the deck hand who throughout the movie plays David Bowie tracks on acoustic guitar and sings the words in Portuguese. Like another review I read somewhere, it's weird, but good weird.
Posted by case at April 2, 2005 08:13 AM