12/17/15
I consider this a strong film-- valuable to our world, valuable to the art form. I can't see it being as good as Fantastic Mr. Fox, but by its end it had an element that the other film didn't have. It gained some power.
The good majority of the film was underwhelming for me. I've essentially only ever seen one Wes Anderson movie, and I've been wanting to visit this one for years, and I always knew I would like it, but somehow the Anderson originality is already very dry to me. I appreciate the act of looking for the signature aesthetic, but this film didn't have the amazing humor that the other had.
Yet I liked it, and do call it valuable. The young male lead is fantastic in numerous ways; I love the Bruce Willis component; Ed Norton gives probably exactly what he should give-- I'm not sure just how valuable this is to me, but after Birdman I feel I could watch him anywhere-- I liked it. I feel once again that Bill Murray is a tragedy of disappointment, misunderstood to be a real actor.... and it is baffling to me. I have not been impressed in the slightest with the movies for which he is acclaimed as an actor-- Lost in Translation, Moonrise Kingdom, perhaps Groundhog Day or Razor's Edge.... Frances McDormand was irrelevant.
It's valuable because it is the real, the full Wes Anderson. Fox was a playful and probably ingenious experiment; Budapest is probably merely a project, a career-builder. Moonrise Kingdom is full and fleshed. And it is a good movie.
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