The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Boring!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am sorry but I do like Bill Murray and Owen Wilson. But this movie is just plain bad and is very boring. I turned it off after the first hour when the movie was developing into nothing. I don't leave bad reviews like this unless they are very bad, and this one is. Rent something else, anything else besides this one.Movie Review: A charming film, I wish more were like this.
Summary: 4 Stars
I decided to take a chance one day and buy this used, I had been worried about watching it because there had been many used copies of the dvd(criterions no less) at my local video store for 5.99 with no one buying them for months on end. However, with a Anderson, Murray, Dafoe, and Goldbloom on board, it couldn't be that bad.
I'm glad I took the chance and bought the movie without having seen in. I really liked Anderson's previous movie the Royal Tenenbaums, and I was glad to see that in this film, he continued on making a very specific style. Although I think he has a great feel, viewers should be warned that it tends to have a rather polarizing effect(check out the other reviews on here),with not many in the middle ground. Personally, I find the look and feel of his films to have a great flair and imagination. The score is interesting as well, with the much discussed foriegn langauge versions of the Bowie songs. However, to me I think some of the creatures they came up with show the spirit of the movie. The scene that makes the movie to me is when the cast in under the sea in a small diving chamber watching a giantic "leopard shark" while a Sigur Ros track plays in the background.
Pretenious or not, who gives a damn, its a great escape from the dull world for a couple of hours that makes me happy for sure.
Movie Review: This is really bad
Summary: 1 Stars
I can appreciate dry humor, but this movie doesn't even classify as being dry humor...it is just plain boring and lacks any story line. I struggled to watch the whole movie and through it all didn't laugh out loud once.
Spend your time in better ways, like watching the grass grow.
Movie Review: Pretentious Crap
Summary: 1 Stars
To every review I've read about this movie calling it "intelligent" humor that "unintelligent people can't understand", I respond with: it's pretentious, hipster bullcrap. This is a movie for people who want to talk down to others about their intellectual capacity, but fail to notice what they are using to feel superior is M-O-V-I-E. Ah yes, books require too long of an attention span, and there might be actual "words" you don't know and you'll have to look up! (boo-hoo)
This movie wasted one of the best casts I've seen assembled in a long time. The characters were horribly underdeveloped, the drama unmoving. It was a two-hour long battle not to fall asleep.
Coincedentally, this is also the last time I listen to a recommendation from anyone that finds Arrested Development amusing.
Movie Review: Chewed
Summary: 4 Stars
For the past week I've shown Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers in the Eastern Religions class that I am teaching and one day before turning on the film my students and I discussed the films of Bill Murray. Having grown up during the 1980s, I still associate Murray primarily with films like Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, and the like, however, a good portion of Murray's films have becomes the darlings on the independent film circuit. A couple of my students asked me if I had watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and I said that I had not, so today one of them loaned me his roommate's copy of the DVD.
The Life Aquatic of with Steve Zissou opens with a viewing of the title character's latest documentary in which his best friend Esteban is devoured by a Jaguar Shark. During the questionnaire after the films showing Steve Zissou informs the audience that in his next film he plans to kill the shark for revenge. However, these words are easier said than done because Zissou's ratings have been dropping over the last decade and companies are reluctant to finance his films. His falling popularity leads Zissou to indulge in alcohol to become more and more distant from his wife. Yet, it seems that Zissou's life is going to change when he meets Ned, a thirty year old man who claims to be Zissou's son. While neither affirming or denying being Ned's father, Zissou invites the younger man to come to his private island and later invites him to become part of his crew, however, how will the rest of the crew respond to this and how will Steve and Ned get along when they both have eyes for the same blonde, British reporter?
The Life Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou consists of an interesting mix of live action and animation. While all the humans are flesh and blood, most of the aquatic life is animated and animated in quite bright, vivid colors thereby giving the film a magical realistic, surreal quality. Top this off with a soundtrack primarily made up of David Bowie songs, sung by the man himself and in Portuguese by one of the films actors: Seu Jorge, make the film a visual and aural delight, however, is the film enjoyable itself? I say yes, yes it is, but it is a film that tends to move a bit slow at some points and at others might seem quite pointless as a whole. Yet, it does touch on softening the heart of a man who was afraid to love and care for others and a couple of scenes within the film are quite heartbreaking.