The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe Director: Wes Anderson Writer: Wes Anderson Producer: Barry Mendel Producer: Dan Beers Producer: Enzo Sisti Producer: Rudd Simmons Producer: Scott Rudin Writer: Noah Baumbach DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Icelandic (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); Tagalog (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled) Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 119 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Just Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wes Anderson directed "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." He's also the guy who brought us "The Royal Tenenbaums" which is one of my all time favorite movies. I knew I had to see this, especially after laughing my brians off in the commericals. Unlike "The Royal Tenenbaums" this movie hits more with laughs rather that hitting us in the heart. This movie is loaded with lavish sets, mythical stop motion animation beasts, laughs, and great preformances, especially by Bill Murrey, and as a surprise, Willem Dafoe, who was great as the character of Klaus. The only problem with "The Life Aquatic" is the fact that we don't get every single loose ned tied up. It also takes longer to learn about our characters. "The Royal Tenenbaums" had a minute minute narration about the past and the present, and we learned character histories, feelings, sexual preferences, and their emotions towards others. This is taken is a different approach, because character emotions isn't the focus, it's character interaction. It is also much louder. Wes Anderson packs in some hilarious action scenes, rather than verbal scenes, and he pulls it off wonderfully. I can see Murrey getting an Oscar nomination again. It also has some great names. Who could resist names like Steve Zissou, Ned Plimpton, Klaus Daimler, and Alistair Hennessey.
The film begins with a new addition to Steve Zissou's show with Episode 12: The Jaguar Shark. Team Zissous sails on the Belefonte, with his crew, fresh from the loss of a best friend Estaban. Steve Zissou saw a giant spotted shark eat his friend, and vows revenge, although the shark may or may not actually exist. With his wife, Eleanor, getting ready to leave him, and is actually considered the mind behind Team Zissou, and his rival Alistair Hennessey much more successful, Steve has alot on his plate, and now he learns something even more mindblowing. He may or may not have a son named Ned Plimpton, whose mother just killed herself, and told him about Steve. Steve takes Ned to his island, and asks him to join Team Zissou on the journey to find the shark. Two people also join him. Bill Ubell, who is watching him to make sure he doesn't kill the shark, and Jane Winslett-Richardson, who is doing a cover article on Steve, and is realizing that he is not who she thought he was during her childhood. When Eleanor leaves him before they set sail, it's rocky waters ahead, and the Team gets captured by "pirates," have to rescue Bill, and make sure they have enough dynamite before they find the shark, while also Ned falling in love with Jane, who is pregnant with her married editor's child.
The laughs never stop during "The Life Aquatic." Character development is not throughout every character as strongly as Steve. Things happen to everybody, but Steve, emotions run high, from the death of his friend, to his story of the shark, to his finding out that he has a son, and then to the end, which I don't want to give away. The jaguar shark, and the other wild-life creatures that we see in the movie are very imaginative, and stop motion animation. I love stop motion animation, like in "The Nightmare Before Christmas," almost as much as I love computer generated image, and I love how Anderson puts this into his movie. His next film is going to be an adaptation of a Roald Dahl book, and that should be interesting. There is so much color used in this movie that your eyes have a field day. The end of 2004 has had some lavish films, such as "Hero," and "House of Flying Daggers," and this is something more to add. Alot happens in "The Life Aquatic" including a shootout, kidnappings, a love story, a father-son relationship, etc, that this turns into one of the oddest movies I have ever seen. It shifts from each scene to each scene with such perfection that the movie never suffers from not working, because these characters fit into this world so well. This is only the second Wes Anderson film I've seen so far, and I want more. It's shame that he doesn't make movies more frequently, but if their as good as this, I can wait. I have Bill Murrey on my Oscar nominee list, but it's possible he'll get shunned again for Jamie Foxx for "Ray," which is my pick. Either or, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is a great, fast, and entertaining two hours at the movies. One of the best films of the year.
ENJOY!
Rated R for language, some drug use, violence and partial nudity.