Not funny

Rating: Null/10 (24 December 2012)

Two 12-year olds meet one summer and fall in love. He's a troubled orphan staying at scout camp and she feels misunderstood by her big family. They run away together.
This is a typical Wes Anderson movie; if you like his other movies, you'll like this one, too. I found it boring, poorly written, and a wannabe-cool movie. All the actors speak in a monotone and wear a poker face in the movie; no one ever smiles or looks real. The kids who play the main characters never sound spontaneous and aren't likable. They try to be like Christina Ricci in "The Addams Family," except she was funny and they're not. The adult cast includes many top actors, but even they can't pull it off; they look and sound like they're reading the script for the first time.
The humor is (too) dry, the characters are devoid of personality, and the action is absurd. I know this is what Wes Anderson was going for, but I didn't care for it.