I find that the older the Wes Anderson film, the easier it is to review...

This was a time where Anderson's warm and vibrant art style that almost made his film look like plays had yet to develop itself. The Royal Tenenbaums was the best mix of style and substance where Moonrise Kingdom was a little too much quirk and colors for its own good. I had an awful time trying to review both of those because it was hard to pinpoint exactly what I loved with Tenenbaums and what I hated with Moonrise without sounding too generalized or short. I just simply liked one and disliked the other. It was very hard to express why, but I still felt…

This film is nothing short of a triumph and I can't believe that it took me so long to see it even if I'm a huge fan of Wes Anderson's movies.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves here. What I liked the most about this tale of a very odd young man, who has the most extracurricular activities one can imagine and yet fails miserably when it comes to the actual classes he has to attend, are the characters, especially our hero Max Fischer.

I know that one of the most heard criticisms about Anderson's work is that the characters are too quirky and that the general quirkiness that runs through his movies is too overblown for some to…

This just became my new favorite Wes Anderson movie.

I can't say I'm an enormous fan of the man's style. It's, as I've mentioned before, far too in-your-face hipster pretentious to the point of being obnoxious. What I was surprised by was how tastefully Anderson employs his unique style here. He's not in it to show off just how "quirky" he can be, he's in it to make a quality film. Which it certainly is, it's easily his funniest work I've seen so far, with easily my favorite character of his work, the unforgettable Max Fischer, along with a very generous handful of other brilliant characters. The dialogue never falls flat, it's always as witty as can be and then…

#7/10 in my quest to watch all films directed by Wes Anderson.

Thoroughly enjoyable and left a huge smile on my face as the credits began to roll, however this sits at #4 in my current ranking of his movies. Just like the Darjeeling limited I felt this movie lacked something, i'm not sure what, that has made me love his other movies.

The central performances of the film are fantastic, I have officially slowly but surely been converted into a Jason Schwartzman fan, a brilliant casting as the leading role. Perfectly witty, brave, irritating and at the same time comedic. Bill Murray is as usual playing an almost lifeless and nearly completely uncharismatic character, which is fantastic. He can…