Likely an unpopular opinion, but I found it all style and no substance. I agree with this critic:
“The trouble is there’s just not enough here to fully engage the viewer beyond the trademark aesthetics — no emotional pull or lingering feeling and too few genuine laughs. For a movie so curiously weightless it seems awfully pleased with itself, its moments of magic evaporating almost instantaneously.”
Dug it. Good Wes Anderson flick. The meta play stuff was an interesting area to explore for him. It wasn’t “amazing” execution of that type of stuff but admirable and I appreciate him trying new things out.
It was quite a jarring experience at first, and I like a lot of Wes Anderson’s work. But it’s grown on me a lot over the last few weeks. He tried something new and I like that in a director. I need another rewatch with rewind to fully get it I think.
It was very Wes Anderson although he did add an extra meta angle presumably to wrong-foot everyone using AI to make Wes Anderson-style parodies.
Basically, you’ll have a rough idea of whether you’ll like it based on your Wes Anderson tolerance levels. I have reasonable tolerance, I like some films a lot but others can grate a bit, but I found this to be a lesser Wes Anderson. There were a couple of funny bits though.
I thought that one of the few subplots was a bit unnecessary, without spoiling anything.
There are so many actors with so many micro interactions that the story line is literally imploded.
The worst Anderson’s movie.
Will someone please take away his budget? It clearly stays in the way of his creativity.