There is hope for film's future after all. Wes out does himself.

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2014)

I have to admit and I hope you all will look past that I am extremely bias when it comes to Anderson's movies. But I would say that if you're new to his work this would be the perfect movie to start out with. The Grand Budapest holds truth to the uniquely colorful scenery, quirky characters and erratic story line of all of We's previous films but also has a pinch more mainstream feel to it with a more define and obvious conflict and a discernible line between the protagonists and antagonists. Wes was able to incorporate the right ingredients of comedy and drama that a lot of other movies that try to do this cannot find the right equation of the two without making it too dark or too bubbly that the drama seems almost unbelievable. The ending is that impressed me the most. After the protagonist's valiantly solve their conflict, guy gets girl, guy gets money, we're almost brought to tears to know that their happiness would not last. Even Zero, at the end says " We were happy, for a little while" ( paraphrase). And while this might be a excretion of my own taste, my own love for indifferent endings that happiness does not last, and Wes knows as in a few of his other movies that even if you do everything right, life doesn't always have a happy ending. And that impressed me the most. That and his quirky Gestapo. Wes really out did himself on this movie, Defiantly one of his best.