Revive. This movie was fantastic.
It certainly was – and in some surprising ways.
What a versatile movie! Funny as hell, and…
I didn’t like it much at all. I think I laughed only a couple times, and one of those times (the music piped into the divers’ underwater breathing apparatus) was in the trailer. Five bucks and Bill Murray’s talent wasted.
I want to like Wes Anderson; I think he has huge potential. Both Life Aquatic and Tenenbaums were, I felt, on the edge of greatness, but just fell flat in the end. Ah well.
Wonderful. Best aesthetic I’ve seen in a movie in years. Amazingly beautiful sets and color schemes, long mise-en-scene shots without the frantic cutting every 3 seconds that you normally see in movies these days. Great story. Hilarious jokes one right after another.
My only complaint is that I wish they would’ve cut some of the pirate storyline to make room for more character development. I would’ve liked to know the interns a little better and posssibly Esteban or Klaus too.
All-in-all it surpassed my expectations. As funny as the Royal Tennenbaums with just as good of a plot but better paced and even more beautiful.
Yeah, I was laughing away but then cringing and
Poor Ned! Poor, heroic, adorable, Ned! And is there a movie this year without Cate Blanchett?
I liked the crew but could have used more Willem Dafoe scenes. And I feel better knowing that the fish were deliberately supposed to look fantastic and fake-y.
Do you suppose Murray’s going to get another nomination this year for an Oscar? He created a whole and fascinating character from a rather sketchy outline.
As I posted in another thread, there was some weather-related mishap, and none of the reels were delivered to my local theaters. I drove around for an hour looking for someplace that was playing it. Unfortunately, I won’t get another chance to go see t for quite a few days. Still looking forward to it, though.
I would like to state that I LOVED THIS MOVIE. There really wasn’t a moment in it during which I didn’t feel like someone was working very hard to please me and succeeding at it admirably. It has my winamp play-list (Bowie, Iggy, Stooges) for a soundtrack and is charming as all Anderson films. Definite Faldureon Awards movie of the year material.
I was thoroughly impressed with this movie! I liked it more than “The Royal Tenenbaums” (which I thought fizzled toward the end). Bill Murray was awesome and adorable (which is more than I could say for “Lost in Translation”). I agree with **Cisco **about the color schemes and the beautiful setting. I think that’s part of what made this movie so “watchable” for me. I LOVED the characters. I also wish we could’ve seen more of Klaus. I never would’ve thought Willem Dafoe could’ve been so “cute!”
I can definitely see how this movie would acquire a cult following, and how convenient that the website is selling things like the “Zissou” sneakers. You can even print out your own Team Zissou membership card… ahhh!!! I’m tempted!!
I don’t think they’re really selling them. I’m pretty sure it’s just part of the “look and feel” of the website.
No, they’re not selling them…ARE THEY?!! I’m just curious is all…
Cisco, well the shoes are listed in the online store, but it says they’re all sold out. Can’t seem to find any on Ebay, but there are plenty of red caps selling for right around $100 (eek!).
The wife and I saw this movie this afternoon, and loved it. Funny, touching, insane…all in all a movie worth seeking out. 
I wanted to learn more about the interns! There was just enough to make it tantalizing (they have one gun to share between them), and I think that there could have been an entire movie about them. Although it did make me happy at the very end to see Niko, the intern with the white-boy 'fro who got sliced by the pirate but stayed on anyway, apparently became part of Team Zissou. He has the silvery-blue wetsuit and the red hat.
I also liked the fact that everyone had their own red hat style, my favorite was the baseball cap with the bill cut off, and a trim of knit material around the edge.
I saw it sunday night. I thought it was great - I loved the freeflowing use of pure fantasy. Also, I loved all the animals conspicuously dropped into various scenes.
The David Bowie soundtrack was wicked, too.
What is the name of the electronic tune they used throughout the movie and in the commercials and website?
Here’s the link to the soundtrack on Amazon. Listen to Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op. Is that it?
Heheh, I like that song 'cos it reminds me of Bill Murray doing his little dance in that wetsuit. It plays on the website for the movie as well.
My favorite red cap belonged to Klaus, with the red puffy ball. Ahh, cute!
I think that’s a good description of the movie. There was some funny stuff, but the things I really like were the characters and their whole universe, the way they interacted with each other and had all these good details to them. I’ve seen Rushmore and Royal Tannenbaums, that seems to be Wes Anderson’s M.O. Maybe I should re-watch those, I didn’t appreciate them as much the first time.
Seu Jorge is the cast member with the acoustic guitar. There are a bunch of snippets of him singing Bowie songs in Portuguese throughout the movie. I don’t know Bowie and I don’t know Portuguese, so the only one I recognized was Space Oddity.
I saw it this evening. Pretty funny, as some people said, in a rather deadpan kind of way.
What was up with the topless girl? I was hoping she’d be topless though the whole movie.
There were a lot of funny random moments-
-Steve pointing out that Jane shouldn’t drink since she’s pregnant, and seeing that she doesn’t seem to care, lights up a doobie.
-Steve slapping the intern on the shoulder he got hacked by a pirate
-Cody, the three-legged dog. Everybody needs a mascot! Even pirates!
-Willem Dafoe’s character goes through this hilarious transformation from being some grizzled second-in-command to a weepy poof at the end. “Now we’re even” ROFL
What a beautiful movie. Man, I love Bill Murray these days. In his Ghostbusters era, he was young and loud - and although he was charming, he was also gratingly annoying. The years have worn a rather unexpectedly fine patina into his persona that has just left him charming and poignant.
The visual aesthetics in the movie were so over-the-top that I didn’t know where to look at any given time, so much so that the overall effect was one of subtlety.
Loved the old-school stop-motion animation as well. I was mildly surprised that it wasn’t digital, but the concept of stop-motion fits so well in the movie.
**** UNBOXED SPOILERS AHOY!!*****
The plot structure was sort of like Kill Bill in reverse, in that you never had any doubt about the general outcome of the movie. You knew there had to be a confrontation between Zissou and the jaguar shark. The premise was nakedly set up at the beginning. The only question was what the character of the confrontation would be. It started becoming apparent to me that the Odyssey-like adventures the team had on their journey would change Zissou’s mind about revenge in the end.
By the time the big confrontation actually happened, they had been through so much character-refining conflict that I had little doubt that Zissou would let the shark live. Get that? I KNEW HOW IT WOULD END. I knew there’d be a sappy-seeming come-to-Jesus moment when Zissou came eye to eye with the beast. And yet, when his eyes started tearing up, and everyone in the submersible put their hands on his shoulders (including his almost-estranged, cold as ice wife and his vain archrival Hennessey) in silent benediction, sympathy, and an acknowledgement of the fact that ONLY HE (despite his many, many shortcomings) could have demanded this much effort and devotion from them, well, I teared up too. Couldn’t help it. It was a beautiful, superb moment. One of those things that makes cinema a true art form.
Really? There were times when I thought for sure that he made the whole thing up. Did anyone else think so?
I was on the verge, man. On. The. Verge.
Just the verge? It put me over, easily.
It was mainly that scene I was thinking of when I said the movie was “funny as hell and…”
A very sensitive bit of craft, there.