A Children's Adventure Made For Adults

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2013)

Wonderfully pictured, deftly written & nicely performed, Moonrise Kingdom tells the tale of a pair of young lovers who flee together from their town which causes the local search party to fan out & find them. Those who are not familiar with the director's previous works might find it quite weird, just like me, and yet the best part of this film is its eccentricity only.
Be it Wes Anderson's quirky direction, idiosyncratic characters, cheerful performances, gorgeous cinematography, strange costumes or peculiar music, every single element of the film manages to work here because of its bizarreness. Bruce Willis & Edward Norton deliver fine performances from its ensemble cast but it's the child actors who take away the big chunk of applause, especially Kara Hayward.
On an overall scale, taking us back to the time when we couldn't wait to grow up, when we had our first crushes & when we simply wanted to run away from home after a small fight, Moonrise Kingdom is an original story of young love & innocence and is a children's adventure made for adults which in the end didn't turn out to be as emotionally rewarding for me as it has for others.