Does not deserve 1 star but nor does it deserve 8.4

Rating: 1/10 (13 May 2014)

So, here I am again after trusting the IMDb rating only to be disappointed. Does this movie deserve the 1 star rating that I have given it? No. Does it deserve the bloated hyped 8.4? No. This movie is a 6. However I feel as though I owe to the IMDb community to help balance the rating.
I was looking forward to this movie, excitedly anticipating it's release date. Visually, this movie had it all, which is what you would expect from a Wes Anderson movie, however, it did not have anything else. It was almost as though we are expected to be satisfied by just that. Don't get me wrong, I love and cherish most of his works. I mean Moonrise Kingdom has to be one of my all time faves..and Fantastic Mr Fox's genius screenplay will always be my cussing fave. But this movie felt empty, it lacked something. You cannot churn out the same visual beauty every time and expect the same hype, there needs to be innovation, whether it is visually, via screenplay or plot. This is what upsets me, there was no innovation. Without innovation there's nothing new, the punchlines are few and far in between, the plot was boring and character's were not well rounded.
Maybe the money that should have been spent developing the above was spent sending armies of people to bloat this rating. I don't know. I will not jump on this "It's a Wes Anderson movie so I have to love it" bandwagon. That's my rant over. Until next time!