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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: The Royal Tenenbaums was quite good. It was dark but had it's funny moments. The children were quite interesting in how they were once brilliant in their own way but then in their later years they saw nothing but depression and faliur. It also had a wonderful cast. Over all it was a great comedy!!
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Summary: "The Royal Tenenbaums"
Review: The Royal Tenenbaums (R) *****/5
Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson.
Directed by: Wes Anderson.
Synopsis: A disjointed family reunites around the dying, estranged father.
Special Features: 2-Disc Set: Commentary, With the Filmmaker, Video Interviews, Outtakes, The Peter Bradley Show Interviews, The Art of the Movie, Trailers.
Review: Well let's start off by saying what a cast! How did they afford theses people? Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson. The cast would lead you to believe that this is a comedy. Well it has some funny moments, but at heart it is very much a drama. Royal Tenenbaum is a rascally old fellow who wants to make thing up to his family who he hasn't seen in years. The kids were all geniuses, but were forgotten due to the sins of the father. This film is touching, moving, and sometimes downright shocking in its portrayal of its characters. It reminded me a lot of "Magnolia" where the people's lives wove together. It is a fascinating film to watch simply to view the characters interacting with one another, and to see their motives are revealed. This film is deep, sweet, shocking, and an excellent acting. Gene Hackman and company were all snubbed for Oscar nominations. Hackman especially for his portrayal of the rascally, lovable patriarch. Wes Anderson's directing is on I really digged the slow motion Gwenyth Paltrow getting off the bus sequence. The soundtrack is slow and sweet it really goes with this film. As for the DVD itself it is a 2 disc, beautifully presented, but with some odd artwork. This baby is loaded with special features that fans of the film will love. It also has some large booklets in the front of reading material about the film. Definitely worth picking up.
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Summary: I want to give it more than 5 stars!!
Review: This movie, is literally breath taking. I cannot even begin to tell you how wonderful, beautiful, sweet, dark, funny, imaginative, and perfect it is. But, I'll try. Ever since I saw "Meet the parents", I've been a fan of Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. Though "Zoolander" was pretty silly, I still enjoyed it. So you can imagine my joy when I saw that the two were doing yet another movie together. I also found out that Owen co-wrote the new movie, strangly titled "The Royal Tenenbaums". When I saw it in the theatres, I quickly found out that Tenenbaum is the last name of a dysfunctional family and Royal is the name of the father, played perfectly by Gene Hackman. His three genius adult children are Chas (Ben Stiller), a widower who got into real estate in high school. Margot (Gwenyth Paltrow), a depressed playwriter who has secretly been smoking since she was 12. And Richie (Luke Wilson), an ex-tennis player who is in love with Margot. Did I mention she was adopted? Royal and Etheline, the mother, have been seperated for 22 years. When Royal is finally kicked out of the hotel that he had been staying in that whole time, he decides to fake cancer in order to live with Etheline again. Coincedently, all 3 children come home temporarily at that time for their own reasons. Now, I know what your thinking. "He fakes cancer? That's just some scheme that they would have on Three's company or something!" but there's alot more depth to it. I can't say exactly what happens, or else I would give it away. This movie is very brilliant and I highly reccomend it. There are also characters not part of the Tenenbaum family, such as the childhood neighbor who wishes he WAS part of the family, Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) or Margot's husband, played by Bill Murray. If you appreciate brilliant, dramatic movies, then you would love this. But if you like just okay movies that are just to entertain, not thrill, then maybe you wouldn't like this. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is not for everyone. Although the swearing is scarce (Okay, so they say "the F word" 3 times, oh well) THIS IS NOT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN! It's very intense, and there is a violent scene where- I can't say, but it gives me chills just thinking about it. Even if a little kid DID see it, you would be wasting your time because they wouldn't get it. It's just too real. It is partially a comedy though, I mean, it IS a comedy, but it's dark and dramatic at the same time. If I haven't convinced you to see it yet, it's probably not your type of movie. If I have, go out and rent it, now! You will NOT regret it.
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Summary: Great writing! Great film!
Review: After I saw all the previews for this on TV, I had to go out and rent it. I had high expectations for it, and I was definately more than satisfied with the way the movie turned out to be. It was about a broken family, the Tenenbaums. The father (Gene Hackman) pretended that he was dying and that he had to spend as much time with his family as possible before her died. Of course, this was just an attempt to bring his family back together and he also didn't have a house, so he was using them too. Gene Hackman was great as the lying father. Also, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and the Wilsons turned in great performances as well. This movie probably had the best dialogue I have ever seen. I highly reccomend this film.
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Summary: one fabulous flick
Review: Wes Anderson can do no wrong in my book. Compared to other Hollywood films, The Royal Tenenbaums beyond perfect - 6 or 7 stars out of 5 - and compared to Wes Anderson's other films it's second only to Rushmore in totaly humor, sweetness and in it's celebration of eccentricity.
Perhaps most importantly, in this day of seen-it-once-and-sorta-liked-it Hollywood pablum, this is a movie that is rewarding upon multiple viewings (I saw it three times in the theater). Like all of Anderson's films, Tenenbaums is dense with imagery, references, inside jokes, and other detail that enriches the viewer with each screening.
Oh, and this is the movie that made me get over my general disappointment with Gwenyth Paltrow - a great actress who rarely shows it in the roles she chooses...
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This is an excellent dvd! Actually, I should say dvd's. BOTTLE ROCKET fans will enjoy the subtle parallels. I won't spoil anything for those who have not seen it, but those that have will be thrilled by all the extras. True dvd fans will know how great Criterion dvd's are (ie the original SPINAL TAP) and this one is no let down. I would say that this dvd is a cross between the dvd RUSHMORE and the book THE DISTURBED WRITINGS OF ADAM COCHRAN.
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Summary: Hoping his next film will have a heart
Review: Rushmore was one of the most exciting films of its year. As a fellow filmmaker, I reveled in Wes Anderson's virtuosity...his character and plot cues were precise and compelling. Everything moved the story forward, and then looped back on itself, and revealed the closest equivalent to literary layers I've seen in a movie in some time.The Royal Tenenbaums captured me with its visual intensity -- the expert eye behind its framed precision -- but I'm afraid I felt nothing for the goings on or the outcome. Because of the star caliber of its cast, you can't help but wait and see what a film by Anderson and Wilson does with Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelica Huston in the same scene. Unfortunately, it does nothing. The offbeat conceits -- and there are many -- never quite gel. The film has a couple of false climaxes that make a not-too-long movie feel like it was over twenty minutes ago. Gene Hackman courses through his scenes with terrific verve and gravity, but the subject matter that surrounds him can't catch up. Wes Anderson is always on his toes, but like Andy Boyle in A Life Less Ordinary, he blisses out on his own genius. The net effect is merely satisfying. Happily, Anderson's preoccupation with individuality and the comfort in eccentricity are all intact. And the Wilson brothers, in character, share some terrifically understated moments of tenderness. I think Luke Wilson dragged this movie kicking and screaming out of the cerebrum and into the visceral world of human hurt and failing. He was terrific even when he wasn't doing anything but looking abandoned and broken. Here's to the director with the best eye for filming beautiful children. Let's hope his next outing feels more like a meal.
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Summary: Wes Anderson strikes again!
Review: Wes Anderson follows up his critical success of Rushmore with another gem in The Royal Tenenbaums. Following the downfall of the lives of 3 childhood geniuses, Anderson and Owen Wilson's screenplay is both heartwrenching and hearwarming at the same time. Having burned out at such an early age, the Tenenbaum family tries to constantly regain their former glory, mainly unable to release the past they know they need to escape. Oddly enough, the only man able to help them accomplish this is their father, Royal, who seperated from his wife (and family in general for the most part) decades before. Having lost nearly everything to his name and needing a place to stay, Royal uses a scheme that he's on his death bed to weasel his way into his family's good graces. Anderson approaches a wide range of topics and relationships in general in a fresh light, showing a unique perspective on the human spirit, both good and bad. Tenenbaums is highlighted by a career high performance of the title character by the lovable Gene Hackman who is supported by strong performances by Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Ben Stiller as the grown up Tenenbaum clan. I should mention that if you aren't a fan of Anderson's previous ventures, Tenenbaums may not be your cup of tea (it might be anyways) as he and partner Owen Wilson have their own unique style to bring us memorable characters and places.
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Summary: Not funny. Not cute. Not interesting.
Review: Respective to the quality of its cast, all of whom give terrible performances here, this is arguably the worst movie ever made - relentlessly dull and repulsively precious. Given its insufferable air of twerpy self-adoration, one is less inclined to itemize its numerous inadequacies than to simply beat it up after school. Unless you're desperate to pass yourself off as some kind of hipster, avoid this at all costs. That eminent philosopher, David Lee Roth, once explained that the reason music reviewers rave over Elvis Costello records is that music reviewers all *look* like Elvis Costello. I suspect a similar dynamic applies in this case. A person who writes about movies for a living is likely to have been an art-geek in high school, erotically fixated on his female siblings as an unthreatening alternative to pursuing available girls, cultivating his semi-ironic taste in pop culture into a hermetic language with which to keep the pain of unpopularity at bay - all of which are traits glorified in "The Royal Tenenbaums". It's not so much that I begrudge Wes Anderson his naked wish fulfillment; creative people in many fields do it all the time. What I found so intensely irritating were all the like-minded reviewers who have attempted to foist it on those of us who are less poorly adjusted as some kind of singular comic vision.
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Summary: good movie.........
Review: I wont bore you with all the details of the movie, you can get that from other reviews. The movie is good. The second disk on the dvd is the biggest reason why i gave this a 4 instead of a 5. The cut scenes on the second disk just play one after another. The viewer is not able to choose which scene or is even told why the scene is cut. This is one of my biggest gripes about some dvds. I enjoy the way that the kevin smith (clerks, chasing amy, dogma...) dvds are layed out. You can choose which scene you want to view then there is an intro to the scene and then it plays. Other than that the movie is very good and well worth the dough
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