Directed by Wes Anderson2007 Comedy/Drama
Rated R
** 1/2
In Wes Anderson's fifth film, about a group of estranged brothers who go on a trip around India after a year of being apart, suffers from almost the exact same thing that his previous film, the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, suffered from; Anderson seems more interested in showing us what he can do with a camera than what he can do with actors and a script. His style of having a character acknowledge another one off screen, panning over to them, then panning back, started to give me a headache about halfway through. And i'm getting a little tired of slow motion shots with an upbeat indie song playing in the background. Fortunately, the performances are good (including a nice little cameo by the incredibly underrated Irfan Khan), and the script keeps the movie rolling at a good pace. Overall, however, this is just more of the same from Wes Anderson. It's time for him to change it up.
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