The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
The deeper you go, the weirder life gets.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 27, 2014
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bill Murray, Owen Wilson & Cate Blanchett | |
Performer: | Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Bud Cort & Seymour Cassel | |
Directed by | Wes Anderson | |
Screenwriting by | Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach | |
Composition by | Mark Mothersbaugh | |
Produced by | Barry Mendel, Wes Anderson & Scott Rudin | |
Director of Photography: | Robert D. Yeoman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Seems to stagnate. [Full review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
THE LIFE AQUATIC is a micschievous and melancholy thing of wonder....It's daring, different and memorable.
Uncut
An exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower...
Los Angeles Times
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is so knowing and so arch: the first part striving for a faux-grandiosity that the second part tries to undercut by its pseudo-geekiness... but ends up being plain annoying.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
This is Murray and Anderson at their most irreproachable and beguiling. In short, it's a bit of a minor masterpiece.
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The List
Ranked #12 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- Wes Anderson here creates a totally bonkers but entirely charming comedy...
Uncut
Rating: 2/5 --
All the stylized performances in stylized sets work to kill the film's emotional content. It's not that we don't like the characters; it's that Anderson won't let us get involved with them, a fatal flaw in something this strenuously whimsical.
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NOW Toronto
Product Description:
In Wes Anderson's THE LIFE AQUATIC, a group of oceanic explorers who call themselves Team Zissou embark on a journey to hunt down the "jaguar shark" that ate one of their crew members (Seymour Cassel). Determined to avenge the death of his dear friend, team leader Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) is melancholic about the journey he's about to make. Meanwhile, financial troubles and nostalgia for his past make Zissou behave like a reckless playboy, an aging softie, and a past-his-prime tyrant. Surrounding Zissou are a hodgepodge of eccentrics--a pregnant journalist doing a magazine feature (Cate Blanchett), an airline pilot from Kentucky who claims he is Zissou's son (Owen Wilson), an emotionally needy European (Willem Dafoe), an acoustic guitarist who sings David Bowie songs in Portuguese (Seu Jorge), Zissou's brilliant wife (Anjelica Houston), and her ex-husband who is Zissou's seafaring nemesis (Jeff Goldblum). Clad in baby-blue polyester uniforms, Addidas sneakers, and red stocking caps, Team Zissou is a sight to see. And as their deep-sea adventure takes them into dangerous waters where they are attacked by pirates and dazzled by CGI fish, the group finds magic both in their bonds to each other and in the colorful world around them.
In keeping with Anderson's unique brand of escapist humor, these caricatured characters are nothing short of fascinating. While their lives are extraordinary, they act bored, dwelling on banalities like hurt feelings, jealousy, and loneliness. The more absurd their stories are, the more believable their quirky personalities become. With plenty of hilarious moments offsetting the film's tongue-in-cheek sentimentalism, THE LIFE AQUATIC is sure to please seasoned Anderson fans and make new ones of the uninitiated.
In keeping with Anderson's unique brand of escapist humor, these caricatured characters are nothing short of fascinating. While their lives are extraordinary, they act bored, dwelling on banalities like hurt feelings, jealousy, and loneliness. The more absurd their stories are, the more believable their quirky personalities become. With plenty of hilarious moments offsetting the film's tongue-in-cheek sentimentalism, THE LIFE AQUATIC is sure to please seasoned Anderson fans and make new ones of the uninitiated.
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