Deadpan Delight

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2013)

There is nothing ordinary about a Wes Anderson Movie. Like all good Directors He manages to Create a World that can be pointedly parallel to our own with enough similarities to make it resonate but enough difference to make it incredibly interesting.
This is a beautiful Film that is a delightfully droll deadpan. Unsentimental but touching with sincere, but unlikeable Adults behaving in a Mid-Sixties controlling way dutifully carrying out a search for two 12 year old Runaways who have "eloped" and have a Dream about escaping and hiding on this Island that is barely big enough for a Family Picnic.
This is one of those Movies where the Kids speak in Dialog beyond their years, most of the set-ups are like a School Play with precise placings and artificially attractive backdrops. Welcome to Anderson's Alternate Universe. This is Story Book Stuff and not meant to remotely resemble reality Spoken or Seen.
A Fun Fantasy Land containing Dry Humor with a high Quirk Factor. It is charming without being Sweet and is tactful in its display of the Coming of Age Sexuality. Anti-Changeling of a Movie that is for those whose Taste wanders to the Eccentric or for Anyone weary of Moviedom's more of the same.