Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Pros: Funny moments...
Cons: ... boring minutes...

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a deadpan comedy starring Bill Murray (watch all his fans proclaim this the best movie ever just because he’s in it… again…), Angelica Houston, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchet, and a host of ...

Pros: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, supporting cast
Cons: Less personality, familiar theme for Anderson

Steve Zissou used to be regarded as a leading oceanographer and documentary filmmaker. While he and his Team Zissou still sail the seas on their ship, the Belafonte, he now has a hard time funding his sea explorations and films. Zissou (Bill Murray) ...

Pros: good characters, interesting story, worthy themes, some moving moments
Cons: dry humor, slow pace, not for everyone

I don't know what the hell I just saw. I really don't. I just emerged from a half-hour drive to Brandon, Florida to see The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Actually, I went to see Darkness, but the theater was sold out. Not wanting to come home ...

Pros: Excellent cast, some funny sequences, visuals
Cons: A little too weird for some people

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. A quirky title for a quirky movie. This is the fourth film from Wes Anderson, the highly creative force behind such previous cinematic gems as Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenebaums. All of Anderson's ...

Pros: Murray, Anderson's intact visual and aural style
Cons: Underused supporting cast, doesn't reach the heights of Anderson's previous films

Here's an exercise for you: describe a colour to a person who has been blind since birth. Or explain the joy of music to someone who has always been deaf. Or try and relate the pleasure of a fine-tasting meal to someone without a tongue. It's hard, ...

Pros: Murray, music, some wonderful lines, Dafoe, colors...
Cons: Courts meaningless frivolity at every turn, and then takes a bath in it.

Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) is a shaggy dog story that is long in the tooth and heavy in the shag. (That's American shag, not British.) Sadly to report, it is a trial to endure all the way through (its two ...

Pros: Anderson's Direction, Script, Music, Production, Cinematography, Cast including Murray & Dafoe.
Cons: Some of the Humor & Drama Feels Forced & Overwhelmed Ambition.

Since emerging into the American film scene in 1995, Wes Anderson has churned out complex characters in their quirky ways but with a sense of compassion and innocence. Whether it was the dim-witted optimist criminal Dignan in Anderson's 1995 debut ...

Pros: Very funny, very offbeat, wonderful characters and set designs, music and screenplay
Cons: May not appeal to everyone

Since I haven’t been writing much lately (been busy) I felt like reviewing something a little different. Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a very unique and special comedy. If you’re unfamiliar with Wes Andersons films and style it may ...

Pros: Moments of Humor, Well-Acted, Quirky Parody
Cons: PACING!, Unoriginal Characters, Pacing.

Let me open by saying that I loved the movie "The Royal Tennenbaums," which was written and directed by Wes Anderson. That movie was clever, well orchestrated, funny and tragic. And at the end of the day, despite a moment of two of slowness, it was ...

Pros: Imagination, interesting casting
Cons: Boring, slow, dull, not like the director's last movies

I consider myself a fan of director Wes Anderson who previously made The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and Bottle Rocket. Like his latest effort The Life Aquatic, these are movies that deal with damaged souls of the lost kind. These are people who are from ...

Pros: Acting, subtle humor, direction.
Cons: Uneven.

Rotten Tomatoes almost has The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou at a standstill, with 79 critics approving and 78 not. Several of our recommending reviewers say "it's not great, but Random Actor #1 makes with worthwhile" and others discouraging, ...

Pros: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, style, sets, music, thematic messeges
Cons: pacing slow

Be it only a limited career in Hollywood thus far, writer/director Wes Anderson has made quite an impression on the film industry as well as the community of audience members who enjoy quirky, if not sometimes bizarre, comedies like the ones he has ...

Pros: Bill Murray, some good quirky characters, art design, music, screenplay, some humor
Cons: lack of depth and motivation, pacing, confusing comedic/dramatic moments

I should have known what kind of movie I was going to see with a title like "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" planted onto it. The film is so un-commercial to the point I wonder what audience director Wes Anderson was trying to reach. I suppose ...

Pros: Hilarious. Original. Great performances.
Cons: Unnecessary nudity. Characters could have been a little more developed.

For anyone who is a true Wes Anderson fan, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a welcome treat. Anderson again succeeds in creating memorable characters and injecting his unique brand of humor into the film. The Life ...

Pros: Murray's amusing; Blanchett's beguiling; Defoe's nutty; Goldblum's gay; Bowie's covered; animated fish--magical.
Cons: I'll let you know after I've watched the movie two or three more times.

Bill Murray (who plays the Jacques Cousteau-on-pot Steve Zissou, an underwater documentarian) is just one of many eccentric characters inhabiting Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." Throughout this wacky film he competes for our ...