Wes Andersons worst film? it could well be

Rating: 2/10 (26 September 2012)

Wes Andersons films in the order of how much i like them is as follows. 1)The royal tenenbaums 2) Bottle rocket 3) The Darjeeling limited 4) Life aquatic 5) Rushmore 6) Fantastic Mr fox 7) Moonrise kingdom (the list doesn't include any of Wes Andersons short films). Firstly, I don't understand why moonrise kingdom gets such good reviews. on rotten tomatoes it gets the highest critical approval of any of his films with 94% and the life aquatic gets the lowest with 53%. I am a huge fan of Wes Andersons style (which i would find very difficult to describe well) and his first five films are all almost perfect for what they are in my opinion. My problem with fantastic Mr fox but mainly Moonrise Kingdom is that he has almost taken his style too far and 'cringingly' overdone the whole 'Wes Andersonness' of it. Despite what i said before about his other films i think that this film is too perfect and too beautiful in an annoying and childish way. I must say however that the children acted very well and some of the scenes between them i found enjoyable. Aside from this the adult actors as highly talented as they are just don't suit a Wes Anderson film and the way are trying to act in a 'Wes Andersonny' way (sorry about all these made up words) really irritated me. I think he should go back to Owen Wilson as his co-writer and forget his last two films.