The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection
by Wes Anderson
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Actor: Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Willem DafoeDirector: 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, 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
Movie Reviews of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Wes Anderson is a genius
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a wonderful viewing experience. Wes Anderson has a very distinct flair for storytelling (verbally and visually) that really shine in this movie, far more (IMHO) than his previous films. He does a great job of portraying the resolutely downtrodden - Bill Murray is a bordeline washed up naturalist/film maker, and his despair coupled with immense self contempt coupled with a seething disdain for the human race is brilliantly portrayed. I especially enjoy the camera work, another characteristic of Anderson. He's great at the wide angle shots, often including many actors in a single frame. This seems like a very difficult thing to pull off, but he does so masterfully. Can't say enough.
Summary of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection
Internationally famous ocenaographer steve zissou & his crew set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious elusive - possibly nonexistent - jaguar shark that killed zissous partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/16/2006 Starring: Bill Murray Cate BlanchettIn The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, director Wes Anderson takes his familiar stable of actors on a field trip to a fantasy aquarium, complete with stop-motion, candy-striped crabs and rainbow seahorses. And though Anderson does expand his horizons in terms of retro-special effects and a whimsical use of color, fans will otherwise find themselves in well-charted waters. As The Life Aquatic opens, Zissou (Bill Murray), a self-involved, Jacques Cousteau-like filmmaker, has just released a documentary depicting the death of his best friend Esteban, who was eaten by some sort of sea creature--possibly a jaguar shark. Zissou's troubles also include his waning popularity with the public, and a nemesis (Jeff Goldblum) who hogs up all the grant money. Hope arrives in the form of Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), an amiable Kentuckian who may be Zissou's son. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for fatherhood, Zissou welcomes Ned--and Ned in turn saves Zissou's new documentary (in which he seeks revenge on the jaguar shark) in more ways than one.
One of Wes Anderson's greatest achievements as a director to date has been launching the autumnal melancholy phase of Bill Murray's career, starting with Rushmore in 1998, and Murray delivers a similarly comedic yet low-key performance here. Unfortunately, Zissou is one of the few characters in this ensemble to achieve multi-dimensionality. Even co-star Wilson doesn't get to develop Ned much beyond Noble Southerner, and he ends up seeming more like a prop for illustrating Zissou's emotional development rather than his own man. The Life Aquatic probably won't be remembered as a great film, but it is still one that no Anderson (or Murray) fan can afford to miss.--Leah Weathersby
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