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Summary: Not to everyone's taste
Review: Kudos to those who enjoyed this film. I realize that it is a movie laced with dry humor, and dedicated to the proposition that even an insensitive, dead-beat Dad can return to his family and reform enough to make life better for everyone. However, the quirky characters and dysfunctional situations were just too far out for my enjoyment. To each his own!
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Summary: The Best Film of 2001
Review: Poignant, funny, and full of wonderfully human moments, "The Royal Tenenbaums" is a film that can easily renew your faith in the movie industry. When little gems like this are successful in a market flooded with inane, effects-laden popcorn flicks, it's quite heartening.There's plenty of quirky humor throughout the picture, but the real surprise for me, having never seen Wes Anderson's other movies when I first saw TRT, was how moving the story was. By the end of the film I felt I knew and cared about each and every one of the characters. At its heart it's a story of redemption, and the importance of family. Plus it's just a kick to watch. Gorgeous, surreal sets and costumes, music that adds just the right touch to scenes, and marvelous performances by all the actors. The Criterion DVDs themselves are fabulous, but then Criterion always does a great job. Commentary from Wes Anderson, interviews with the stars, behind-the-scenes features that let viewers see just how much painstaking effort was made with every detail of production. Well worth the money spent. And now I think I'll go watch the DVD again. This is one of those movies that reveals itself more fully with every viewing.
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Summary: Is he allowed to do that ??
Review: Oh, my my my my my...This movie has touched me in so many ways I seriously cannot explain. If I were to ever make a movie, this would be the one I would make. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, you 2 are absolute geniuses. The mood of this movie, the songs on the soundtrack ( especially Nico ), and the actors chosen for this movie make this easily one of the most well written, well thought out and complete movie to date. Thank you very much for making this movie, and please keep up the good work. "I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum"
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Summary: An extra star for Gene Hackman
Review: I don't care for quirky comedies just for the sake of their quirkiness. I enjoyed "The Royal Tenenbaums" mostly because of Gene Hackman. In recent years I've realized that he makes any movie he's in better for his mere presence. Without him in it, I know I wouldn't have liked this film nearly as much. Yes it's funny, yes it's quirky, and everyone in it did an excellent job, but for me, Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum is the difference between an amusing, layered (and visually interesting) comedy that I'd watch once (3 stars) and one I'll likely watch a few more times in the future (4 stars). I'd definitely suggest renting it before determining whether you want to buy it on DVD, if you didn't see it in the theater.
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Summary: Great Expectations
Review: I regretted missing the big screen version of "The Royal Tenenbaums" and feel fortunate there is such a fine DVD rendition. The sound track is superb, one of the best I have heard in years. This is the second film this year that I have fallen in love with a house (the first being "Gosford Park"). The Tanenbaum manse is a marvelous turreted Victorian pile with stunning windows, bow fronts, and room upon mysterious room. Synopses made me think of Kaufman & Hart's "You Can't Take It With You" and Shaw's "Heartbreak House" two brilliant and hilarious bittersweet plays featuring wildly dysfunctional, genius-grade eccentric families. I couldn't wait to see what such a stellar cast would do with the premise. "The Royal Tenenbaums" contains disparate set pieces lacking a link to tie them together. The cast, with the exception of Ben Stiller, was likable sometimes lovable individually but nothing seemed to tie them together. I felt as if I were watching individual stand-ups where the actors mailed in their performances without interacting at all. Gene Hackman seemed to sense the flaw and used his marvelous skills subtly to cast a net of connectedness through the story, but was thwarted by the storyline. I thought of the 100,000 starving talented actors who could have more than adequately filled the roles that were wasted on Danny Glover, Bill Murray, and Gwnyth Paltrow. Sight gags (which was in essence Paltrow's entire role) can enhance a film but cannot carry it. The best sequence in the film was Hackman taking his grandsons on a totally inappropriate Afternoon Outing. It sparkled with fun, action, and a series of quick shots that breathed life into a movie that badly needed it. Anjelica Huston was wonderfully eccentric; Hackman was comic, rough and endearing, and a very special nod to Stephen Lea Sheppard as Dudley Heinsbergen, Bill Murray's truly weird test subject. Sorry, I really wanted to like this movie.
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Summary: SO and SO nothing to brag about
Review: The previews are clever and showed the comidic parts,,, I hesitated to see it and in theaters and I am glad I did becuase it would h ave wasted my $5..... But anyway The Royal Ten Tenenbaums has a mixture of some drama,comady,and just plane diolge. The first time I remeber turning it off after the first 15 min witch is based on the 3 kids growing up. But the second time I had a honest effort to sit threw it and I did. Like I seid already it is so and so nothing to brag about I dont see why credics rave about it?!?!?. Alough a comedic part is Ben Stiller playing a farther who is protective over his children since his wife died. I do admit that there really is NO backround music and Iam a person who beleves that backround music is what makes the scene one to remeber. So that slows down the movies way much.
All in all Just rent it or even better yet just catch it on HBO,Showtime or Starz. But alough it has a great cast thats what made it standable to watch.
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Summary: A quirky heart.
Review: PROLOGUE..The Tenenbaum Children Were Geniuses. This is the story of their Family...CHAPTER ONE.....It is high praise, in my world, when a DVD on Amazon yields such contrasting responses. I think it would indeed be awful of me to try to convince the people who did not like this movie that they were wrong. ...CHAPTER 2....I loved this movie, but this is where I am at with my viewing tastes. Give me something different, give me something unique that goes out on the edge. From the first frame, Wes Anderson tells his story in a unique way. Also know that the movie is not always comic.CHAPTER 3... It is easy to look at the track suits, and the costumes and they think that this is going to be a riot. This is a film about family and genius....eccentric, wise and true to it's world. Yes, comic things happen(In some ways it reminded me of John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire) but they come from a character based heart. CHAPTER 4... I think alot of negative stuff comes from the fact that something happens that we have never seen before, the film isn't what we expected and so we deem it boring. This is exactly why I loved it. Give me the unique and interesting.....Also, with the DVD Anderson comes off extremely well. Smart, funny, calm, really well versed in film, and completely visionary. And it shows...CHAPTER 5...the performances are exemplary(Tell me another person who could've pulled this off like Gene Hackman.)...and the vision is uncompromising..........EPILOGUE...So, there it is. If you want common, that is fine. This is not it.
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Summary: I've seen it twice, and it's STILL the year's worst comedy
Review: THIS IS AN UPDATED EDIT...OK, so 3 out of 25 people say my review wasn't useful. Just goes to show some people have NO taste! My wife picked up this movie and I just groaned when she showed me what she'd rented. OK, though, I figured maybe I was wrong. Maybe the movie wasn't as bad as I thought it was when I wrote my first review...which follows these words. Without mincing words, it still was terrible! My wife said it was "kinda OK" and my 10-year-old son left halfway through it to go play video games. I stayed the course, saw the whole thing again, and now, I swear, I will never, ever, ever, ever see this movie again! OK, now comes my original review. (I went to see this piece of tripe at the theater. A friend had said it was one of the funniest movies she'd seen in a long time. She must not have seen many movies. OK, there's a couple of chuckles here, and, as usual, Ben Stiller is fun to watch. But the plot of the movie, the stupidness of it all, just really made this movie a chore to sit through. If you really want to check it out, I'd rent it first. Some folks may like it. I managed to sit through it in the theater, but there's no way I'd ever even rent this on DVD. Seeing it once was enough.) Oops, I didn't take my own advice! I saw it twice!!!
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Summary: A Royal Success!
Review: Who wouldn't want to work with Wes Anderson? After his first two movies (Rushmore, Bottle Rockets) won great praise from critics and viewers alike this was one of the most anticipated flicks of last year. Take a heaping of Gene Hackmans dry delivery and sprinkle in a hip cast of the best of young hollywood has to offer then cover it all with Andersons painterly scenes. One of the best things about Anderson his his use of music and though Tenenbaums is a little heavy in the soundtrack department he still uses tunes as well as anybody in hollywood. For those who are surprised by this brand of film making try out some Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude).
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Summary: Odd yet entertaining
Review: From the people that brought us the masterpiece "Rushmore" comes another classic, featuring exceptional performances from an all-star cast featuring Gene Hackman, Bill Murray, Angelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, and Danny Glover. Gene Hackman is the father that was never there for his children. Fate brings them all under the same roof and that's where the hilarity starts...but's it not slapstick, it's dry humor at it's finest. This very human story brings the family closer together and finds love in the most peculiar of places. I highly reccomend you buy/rent this movie right away, it's simply fantastic!
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