The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou will, as with all Wes Anderson films, require multiple viewings. In his review in the Times, A.O. Scott refers to Anderson's tendency toward "wonder-cabinet production design" (a wonderfully apt description). The guy takes an obsessive-compulsive approach to every frame, resulting in films that don't really sink in until the third or fourth viewing. I can say this, though: it's a very good movie and Bill Murray is my hero.
Most impressive, as always, is the music supervision. I don't want to give anything away, but both Bowie's "Queen Bitch" and Iggy's "Search and Destroy" are used to startling effect. Only Martin Scorsese can match Anderson's facility for using pop music to enhance even the most mundane scenes. Remember "Making Time" and "A Quick One (While He's Away)" in Rushmore? How about Nico's "The Fairest of the Seasons," "Judy is a Punk," and almost the entire first side of the Stones' Between the Buttons in The Royal Tenenbaums? Utter fucking genius.
Anyway, thumbs up.
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