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Summary: Different that the rest
Review: Love it or hate it, this movie is different. Personally I was not in love with Bottle Rockets or Rushmore, I liked both, nit did not love them. This movie really presses you to expand your views on film. You have to see this movie a few times to truly understand all of the things going on in it. This movie, as described below, is an experience. You should not try to analyze the characters, and try to figure it out as you are watching it the first time.
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Summary: Quirky but good.
Review: Loved the movie. In the Tradition of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, they collaborate again on a quirky, misunderstood movie.
These two were made for each other and they show it again in the Royal Tenenbaums. If you liked Bottle Rocket or Rushmore then you gotta see this film.
Great acting by Gene Hackman, Angelica Huston and Gwen Paltrow. They define Dysfunctional and yet in the end they all seem to overcome the traditional problems and focus finally on the Whole Family.
Beautifully Written, wonderfully Acted...It's a must see movie.
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Summary: A Royal Movie
Review: The Royal Tenenbaums is a movie about a very ackward family. It is a very strange film about an even stranger family. But it, nonetheless, captured my heart. this film was witty, intellegent, and t some moments, very sad. I give this movie my thumbs up. Owen Wilson isa masterful writer and should have gotten the acadmey award for best screenplay.
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Summary: The Royal Tenenbaums
Review: Yes, I liked it. Yes, it was funny. The characters are complicated and interesting. The humor is sharp and often subtle. The story is the conglomeration of every childhood scar carried into adulthood. There's the suicidal son, the orphan, the neurotic, the pseudo child across the street, the detached father, and the motherly glue that keeps all the freaks together. Of course if you've seen one Wes Anderson you've seen them all. Why? No, not because they are pathetically similar, though they are. But maybe it's because as the well read movie buff you are, you've noticed what I did. Wes Anderson's "creative genius" is only that of the creative genius of J.D.Salinger. You remember reading "Catcher in the Rye" about a hundred years ago? Well Anderson hopes that you don't if you've seen "Bottle Rocket." Clever old Wes is even more convinced you haven't read "Franny and Zooey" because then "The Royal Tenenbaums" may not seem so quirky and unique. We all know what happens to musicans who rip off an admirable predecessor, don't we? But maybe Wes is safe because nobody reads books anymore.
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Summary: Subtle, Beautiful, Incomplete
Review: Tennenbaums revolves around, switches back and forth between many interesting and complex characters, the writing subtle and bittersweet (though not as funny as Rushmore). Memorable art direction lends the movie a gothic or Victorian feel, colorful but somewhat haunted by the past (like the characters are--child prodigies who've matured into disappointments). Nevertheless this movie doesn't quite cohere. At times if feels as if art direction is its priority, rather than character or story, and the actors, though wonderful in some scenes, seem in others only to be posed to convey a mood. Tennenbaums often resembles a series of portraits rather than a narrative. But at that, it's very good. View Bottle Rocket as Wes Anderson's excellent audition, Rushmore as his first big show, and then this becomes a transitional movie for him, as he comes more into his powers as writer & director. Tennenbaums will make you want to see where he goes in the future, but in Tennenbaums, he isn't quite there yet.
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Summary: This was one of the worst movies EVER!
Review: I bought into the "press hype" that was on the commercials, and I really regretted it. The theater had about 50 people in, but the time the attempted suicide scene was over there were only about 10 of us left in it. Nearly everyone was gone by the end of the movie. It was not funny, the story was all over the place, and overall it ranks as one of the movies I hated the most. TERRIBLE!!
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Summary: i was disappointed
Review: maybe it was just that i was watching this on a cross-Atlantic flight, but i didnt really like this film as much as i did Rushmore, Wes Anderson's last one, which was very very good. Gene Hackman and all the other actors were good, but i think the script needed a little help.
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Summary: Wonderful movie, Excellent cast
Review: This movie touches everything in the life -- grief, love, divorce,familial dysfunctions, inter-racial love, release, heartache, and healing. I liked all of the characters, but I thoroughly enjoyed Owen and Luke Wilson's performance. I think that both of the Wilson brothers are attractive and talented men . . . I truly thank Mr. Mothersbaugh as well for including the music of Nick Drake and Nico in the movie's soundtrack. I was born in 1970 . . . But I never even knew that Nick Drake and Nico ever existed and thanks to him I now love and appreciate their work. Superb job to Mr. Wes Andersen and Mr. Owen Wilson, and the entire cast . . . I will pay again and again to see their work.
Always. I believe that both men are unique in their ability to captivate by using the subtle realities of human life.
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Summary: So Good, So Misunderstood: A Royal Triumph
Review: This is a wonderful movie. First and foremost it is Wes Anderson takes full advantage of the medium. He is not concerned with keeping the film real, he is not afraid to place words on the screen to advance the story line, his attention to detail (from the drawings on the walls to the numerous board games in the game closet) is unmatched, and he can write with a dry intelligent wit that is never seen in the current media. As for the preformances I have nothing but good things to say. Paltrow, Hackman, and the Wilsons give some of the best preformances of their careers. Bill Murray plays a subdued tragi-comic role that proves that he is more than a fromer Saturday Night Live cast member. Danny Glover has never done comedy so well (anyone seen Gone Fishin'). Obviously these actors knew that this was an incredible script and they hoped on for the ride. This film was very overlooked. But people do not tolerate intelligent comedies (on TV or in the Theatre). But if you are looking for great slapstick just watch the Tennis sequence or Hackman and his grandchildren. This was by far the best film of 2001 and probably one of the best of all time. I will watch it again and again.
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Summary: So many things to so many people
Review: 16 pages of Amazon reviews relating to The Royal Tenenbaums ranging from hatred to awe suggests something interesting is going on with this one of a kind movie. After seeing the movie more than a month ago, I started recounting some of the more emotional moments in the film as I sat with my wife in a shopping mall eating a souvlaki. I actually found that I was getting choked up just describing the moments and my wife looked blankly at me. "Is this a mid-life crisis or something?" She liked the film, but couldn't believe that it had emotionally effected me to the extent that it had. "This has probably got something to do with your family, you know." Possibly. But it might also have something to do with a film which on the surface seems to present an artificial and childlike story about an unusual family but underneath captured some illuminating truths about the human condition. I obviously liked the film because I gave it 5 stars and l am looking forward to spending the rest of my life trying to figure out why. I can understand why many people disliked it so much but I am fascinated with the concept that I have little idea why I love it. The Royal Tenenbaums is the reason that I go to the movies. I want to be surprised and engaged in a fictional world where I am taken to a place that I have never been before. And there is no place like the Royal Tenenbaum's.
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