Title: Awful!
Review: Only the most ardent Wes Anderson fan could sit through this film. It is an abomination. While at times cute and funny, it proves that Anderson is a sadist. He develops not one character toward a meaningful realization. Even the title character is something slightly more than a caricature.I loved Anderson for Rushmore. The Royal Tennenbaums was a pleasant diversion with a wonderful performance from Gene Hackman. In the space of four films, however, he has already begun to immitate himself and the immitation doesn't measure up to his obvious hero Hal Ashby.I'm an optimist. I think maybe the loss of Owen Wilson as a writing partner and the poor choice of Noah Baumbach as a replacement was perhaps the culprit in this failed effort. Hopefully he will learn from his mistakes by his next film.
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