The Royal Tannenbaums

The Royal Tennenbaums
Tushar k Shukla
This movie apart from being a cult classic by Wes Anderson and many 
other things, made me crack up like nothing else did before. I was in 
splits on hearing the one liners, written so aptly clever in grammar 
and wit, they blow you away. 
It is the baap of all messed-up-family sagas. Forget The Osbournes, 
welcome The Tennenbaums. Alec Baldwin is the narrator here. The 
movie, apart from all its humorous overtones, touches you at some 
emotional level which makes you identify with the strangest of 
characters which might look exaggerated but extrapolated realizations 
of people we bump into all around us.
This is a must see for all the lovers of COOL in cinema. You can't 
miss the brilliant casting and the strangely intriguing but involving 
characters. Though I never like Luke or Owen Wilson, and I hate Ben 
Stiller, I simply could not have hated them in this one. They have to 
be seen to be believed, and you have the usual suspect Bill Murray as 
the quintessential confused old man in love. For me, the revelation 
of the movie has to be Luke Wilson and PAGODA!!(you may remember him- 
the funny Kumar Pallana from The Terminal(Gupta)). He is a regular 
Anderson feature, but is simply hilarious in his mechanized responses 
in this one. Don't miss the scene where he stabs Hackman with a fake 
knife.
Another scene where I cracked up big time was the embarrassing finale 
of Luke where he is simply outrageously weird. Talking about 
weirdness, Gwyneth scores (!) in a stoned avatar too.
And check out Danny Glover as the archaic archeologist. 
I can go on talking about the movie, but I guess that's what it does 
to you. Everything from music to casting to timing is just too 
perfect to be true in this one. Not to be missed.