Wes Anderson's Best Film Since Rushmore

Rating: 8/10 (10 July 2012)

Wes Anderson provides us with a beautiful story of love, adventure, and youth in this wonderful comedy. With the help of an All-Star cast featuring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray, we are told a story that many of us can relate to in some way, a story of wanting to belong. Throughout the movie, we are provided with the familiar "dry" and "subtle" humor that we are used to from many of Anderson's previous films. When I saw this movie in theaters, I expected a good film with a few laughs just as I have experienced from Wes Anderson's previous films, but my expectations were far exceeded. Wes Anderson can now be considered in the film industry's elite writers/directors of all time and is perhaps one of the greatest film makers of this generation. If you have at least one working eye and a pulse, see Moonrise Kingdom immediately. You'll regret you hadn't seen it sooner.