Bottle Rocket

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Summary: One Sweet Movie
Review: I love Bottle Rocket. It is the best movie of all time. Owen and Luke Wilson are brilliant actors. I love it. Period. Buy it or rent it today.

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Summary: Comic genius!
Review: I have never, ever met anyone who has seen this movie and did not absolutely love it. This is where the classic Owen Wilson/Wes Anderson style of quirky comedy got its start. If you liked Rushmore or the Royal Tenenbaums but have never seen Bottle Rocket...shame on you!!! How this movie escaped the public eye upon its release I will never understand. Very seldom do you see a movie with an indie film feel that is lighthearted and fun, but also amazingly well written and directed. You will be quoting this movie with friends all day long. Definitely my favorite movie to watch.

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Summary: I am an Owen Wilson fan - I celebrate his entire catalogue
Review: "Bottle Rocket" is an Owen Wilson feast. Although he's had some hilarious roles in later movies (Shanghai Noon, Meet the Parent's, Zoolander and Royal Tenenbaums), this is one of the few movies where he is the lead character. He aptly plays the role of Dignan, a modern-day Don Quixote who sets out on a 75 year life of crime only to have his dream of being a professional criminal undermined by his lack of common sense.
This movie is not as sophisticated or complex as later Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson ventures (Rushmore & Royal Tenenbaums), but it is more fun. The humor is very subtle at times but that's what makes it so funny. It's a movie I've seen multiple times and each time I find new things funny while still finding the old things funny.
So if you want some good laughs and a light-hearted movie, do yourself a favor and watch "Bottle Rocket."

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Summary: One of the best American films of all time
Review: Absolutely, hysterically funny? Yes!! But a very important study of very American character.
Boundless energy (sometimes run rampant). Persistent optimism (sometimes to the point of idiocy). Obsessive goals and plans and dreams (that sometimes spiral out of control only to crash and burn).
I especially recommend this film to those who live outside the States and are curious about the American psyche and its many contradictions. You can walk out of a mental hospital and find hope and fulfillment, or you can trade in a rebellious, confident, free-flying yellow jump suit for its alternative, the prison-issue.
The writing in this film is tight- not a word out of place. The direction is skilled and absolutely sparkles, never heavy handed. The acting is about the best you'll see, down to the smallest character. These are people you'll see every day pursuing their version of the American dream.
Who HASN'T known a Dignan? Or, perhaps truer, who doesn't have at least a bit of Dignan inside?

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Summary: If ONLY there were more movies like this!!!!!
Review: Bottle Rocket...you're potential new favorite movie, GO!!!

Bottle Rocket is the best movie I've seen in a long time. If you're a Royal Tenenbaums fan, this movie is a must-see. If you were cool to Tenenbaums, I still think you'll like it. It's a simple, well-written story with great characters and performances from the Wilson brothers...

A quick synopsis: Dignan (Owen Wilson) and his buddy Anthony (Luke Wilson), fresh out of a voluntary nuthouse, team up to try and make crime pay. With the help of their friend Bob, assigned the job of getaway driver since he's the only guy they know with a car, they pursue a life of crime. James Caan plays big-time crime boss, Mr. Henry, who Dignan is desperately trying to impress in hopes that he too might become a big time player. From a mall bookstore to Hinkley Cold Storage, the story weaves the characters in and out of silly, yet believable adventures that makes the movie "a DELIGHT" to watch!!

It's one of those movies that if you see a second (or third) time, you pick up on jokes you missed the first time through. So buy/rent this movie, invite some friends over, and get ready for some laughs. I've made all my friends/family watch it and haven't heard a complaint yet. Enjoy!!

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Summary: Funniest Movie Ever!
Review: I have watched this flick over 20 times, and I still find something new and funny every single time! This is pure comic genius...

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Summary: The Genius of Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
Review: There are few movies I like more. Now, perhaps in the shadow of "Rushmore," "Bottle Rocket" as an example of the genius of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, can be better understood. On its own, it is a light-hearted and funny masterpiece. And I should add that I feel "Bottle Rocket" is in some ways better than "Rushmore."

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Summary: Wes Anderson can do no wrong
Review: this movie has just about the driest humor i have ever seen. there are no jokes, no setups, and no punchlines. What makes it funny is that nothing in this movie is so absurd that it might not happen in real life. This means is once you are able to stop expecting spoon fed jokes, the kind that never occur in real life, when something funny happens, it is really funny. But you have to look for it. This takes some time to get used to, but it makes the movie funnier with each viewing.

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Summary: Film = 5 stars DVD = 3
Review: The movie is amazing. The DVD leaves something to be desired. With Bottle Rocket being the first film from the now acclaimed director Wes Anderson you'd think there would at least be a trailer included, but we get nothing. Let's hope for a special edition.

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Summary: A Classic Beginning
Review: Even if Bottle Rocket had no merits of its own, it would be worth watching to see the beginning of what I hope will be a long and lasting working relationship--that of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson (and Luke). Like Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, their follow-up films, Bottle Rocket is a wonderful mix of deranged humour and quiet sadness. The drama always stops just short of heartbreaking, and the comedy just short of slapstick, leaving us only with a bunch of characters we care about, and their crazy, messed up lives.
Bottle Rocket is not flawless. I'm not sure why not, just as I'm not entirely sure why its so close to flawless. But it has a wonderful screenplay, full of such lines as "Bob's gone, he stole his car!" or, in response to one characters depression that his eight year old sister thinks he's a failure, "She thinks your a failure? What she ever do with her life that was so great?" The romance between main character Anthony and the Paraguayan housekeeper Inez is touching, as is the sometimes uncomfortable friendship between Anthony and the bonkers-in-a-sad-kind-of-way Dignan. Scenes stay in your memory, like Anthony and Bob watching the retreating Dignan through a fence, or Dignan handing a sparkler to Inez. The cast is great, from Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson (Owen is always an obvious standout, Luke is the type who you appreciate more with each film you see him in) to Robert Musgrave as the hangdog Bob and Lumi Cavazos as Inez. And Kumar Pallana makes his inevitable Wes-Anderson-movie appearance as a safe cracker ("ya, I'm ok man").