For me, a bit tiresome

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2014)

A friend invited me to see this. I wasn't aware this was a Wes Anderson film at first (busy lately, a bit behind on current events), but it was immediately apparent once the film started. Some of the visuals are really quite nice, but the pacing made the film kind of numbing. The humor felt flat and detached, and I was often more aware of the actors rather than the characters they played. That's not to say the performances were off, but more that some of them were a little distracting. This often happens (for me)when a large number of famous actors play small parts. I might have been more interested and entertained if the feel of the movie wasn't so predictably stylized.