Good fun. Don't take it too seriously.

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel... is quirky, odd, slightly off-colour and something you might watch if you don't want to tax your brain too much.
Very pretty to look at, if you like scarlet and pink and turquoise all in the same place with some wonderful cinematography.
I thoroughly enjoyed it except for the hideous cliché of the cat out the window... I loathe things that make out animal cruelty is funny... and some other bizarre gore which didn't seem to really fit well with the theme, quirky as it all was... this was a huge put-off for me, like finding out in the middle of a fairy tale that someone's been raped.
And then at about the 58 minute mark it got stupid for about 5 long, long minutes and annoyed me for another dumb clichéd period of time.
The other wild and weird stuff was quite fun. In a different mood I might have hated it but I can't see that in another different mood I would have liked it better.
Great cast, all superbly acted, as they always do, so they really redeemed this movie almost entirely. With a different cast it may have been intolerable.
Not for everyone.