Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

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: Visually stimulating. Great locations and sets. Incredible soundtrack...mostly David Bowie with some acoustic guitar
Cons: Some people find the computerized marine life cheesy...but not me.

If you are looking for something completely hilarious and along the lines of Old School or Wedding Crashers...this most likely ISNT the movie for you folks. This is not your typical slap-stick humor type of film. If you someone who is humored by the ...

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: 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: Great acting, directing, style, music, plot, dialogue.
Cons: It's not what most people expect; and the progression seems sluggish near the middle.

Wes Anderson's unique directing style - including perfectly centered character shots, fisheye lenses for panoramic melodrama, and Jonathan Demme-like conversational first-person shots - take 2nd chair to his subtle, developmental screenwriting in 'The ...

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: 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: 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 ...

Pros: Props are too good for a b-film cult classic.
Cons: Plot, writing, humor, acting (not funny), directing, producing, distributing...

I think my fiance put it best walking back to the car after the film, when she said "why would anyone want to make fun of Jacques Cousteau?". Exactly why, we won't know because if there was a good reason this movie utterly failed to convey it. In fact, ...

Pros: Bill Murray, satirical style, classic Wes Anderson, Bowie in portuguese
Cons: Might not be accessible to a lot of people

Ever since I saw Rushmore for the first time I've been a diligent fan of Wes Anderson and everything that he's put out. I've had to defend him and his films in many an argument with people who claimed that his movies were boring or that "they ...

Pros: Witty and complex. Great cast and soundtrack! Best of Andersons films yet.
Cons: May be to sophisticated for some audiences to enjoy.

The generation of children who admired real role models like John Lennon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and even Jacque Cousteau, are being replaced by a faction who that look to corporately generated action figures that indulge in violence rather then ...

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: 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: 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: 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 ...