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Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2013)

I hate most Wes Anderson films, mainly because they don't have any sense of believability. People don't talk like that, think like that, look like that - all semblance of reality is sacrificed to make things arty and quirky and supposedly humorous. He is doing something right judging by the acclaim: it seems that I simply don't 'get it'.
All that said, I was surprised to quite enjoy this. It still suffered from the usual pitfalls of his films, with poor dialogue and a focus on cool, unusual, deliberately left-field scenes instead of character development and a compelling plot, but overall it was cute and fun and vaguely entertaining. Maybe the fact it was based around children made me judge it a bit more open-mindedly.
I'm always surprised to see his works listed as comedy though - this, like his other movies, barely raised a smile. My sense of humour must be completely out of whack with his.