No Longer Cravin' Wes

01. Oct, 2007 1 Comment

The Darjeeling Limited
Train In Vain
Trailer & Mo

adrian, mind if i borrow that sleeping mask? zzzzzzzz

We’ll start this review exactly like we did with our Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou one: Tsk, tsk, tsk Mr Anderson. Come to think of it, we’ll continue to plagiarize ourselves, as a lot of what we said then, applies to his equally underwhelming new joint, The Darjeeling Limited: ‘All the Wes Anderson touches and comforts that we all know and love are well in place, but it’s basically all surface, and nothing underneath. A lot of stuff ‘happens’, but basically nothing happens. You don’t ever develop a relationship with the characters like you do in his previous films. You can’t cause he’s too busy showing us how cool [everything] is. This [film] is a step backwards, not forwards in [Wes’s] career‘

Seriously Wes, what the funkhouser is going on here? We all know how superfly you is, but your magic is slowly fizzling out. Zissou‘s boat sunk, and Darjeeling‘s train needs to be derailed, so where are you going to go from here? You’re running out of modes of transportation to hip-a-fy. Maybe it’s time to stop trying to be so original, cause this cinematic world that you keep on creating is no longer unique. In fact it’s tiring and you have little left to show, cept how amazing yer record collection is and the best ways to employ the Futura font. Maybe your stop-motion animated take on Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox is the cure to my ills, but from this day fwd, I will no longer be in any more of a rush (get it?) to see your American Empirical Pictures

Room Disservice: Wes’ short preface to Darjeeling, Hotel Chevalier, was supposed to play before it, but Fox cut it lose. They actually did us a favor, as the only redeeming thing about the 12 minute snoozefest is seeing some of Natalie Portman’s a$$

You Say Tomato: one of the more apt quotes from a review found on Rotten Tomatoes… ‘It’s telling that his funniest and liveliest recent work was a commercial for American Express.‘

John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges

Limited is currently playing in limited theaters

until next thyme the balcony is clothed…