The Royal Tenenbaums - Looking for quick review
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I thought it was great. There are a lot of little quirks that you need to see twice before you pick up on it. It's a very twisted show, but very worth seeing.
My g/f and I just rented it the other day. She loved it and thought it was pretty funny. I thought it was OK and chuckled at a few parts. I was pretty lost for the first 30min though. It's worth renting if you've seen all the new releases allready.
Sucked ass. That's my quick review
It was boring, annoying characters and not even a bit funny, I didn't even smile once... yeah, it was definetly not my type of comedy.
very good film, i dont' know how anybody could say it's boring...you get more character development in the first 20 minutes of this film than the entire length of the movies that came out last year and most of this year...plotwise it's about family and redeption, alhtough it doesn't seem to be an exciting theme it's far from being artsy..it makes sense and isn't pretentious...but it's very funny, gene hackman is on fire in this film and everybody is perfectly cast
i got the dvd, it's really nice
i got the dvd, it's really nice
I thought it was one of the funniest movies and possibly one of the best movies of the year. That being said, it a very specific kind of comedy. You either love it or hate it.
A lot of the humor comes from how the characters speak and interact and it's very subtle.
My friend said it best when he said "Sure, the none of that stuff would actually happen, but if it did, that is exactly how those people would act"
I've found that my smarter friends found the movie extremely funny while my not so smart friends were left scratching their head saying "what's so funny?"
A lot of the humor comes from how the characters speak and interact and it's very subtle.
My friend said it best when he said "Sure, the none of that stuff would actually happen, but if it did, that is exactly how those people would act"
I've found that my smarter friends found the movie extremely funny while my not so smart friends were left scratching their head saying "what's so funny?"
"How eccentric can we be?" This seems to be the question motivating director Wes ("Rushmore") Anderson and writer/actor Owen Wilson. Eccentricity is the Hollywood disease du jour, compelling every geek who fancies that he had a mildly unusual childhood to exaggerate it into a wild game of idiosyncratic one-upmanship. The result involves unappealing characters one would be unlikely to find even in the deepest, darkest bowels of a psych ward.
In this buffet of freakishness, "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the prime rib. There are no normal people in the movie, which leaves the audience hard-pressed to identify with any anyone in the film. Note to Anderson and Wilson: A collage of cunning eccentricities does not a character make. Without anything substantial to hold it up, all that clever quirky frosting just collapses into an incomprehensible heap.
Though the trendy coping mechanism Prozac is never mentioned, it seems as though every single character in this movie is on it. The emotional levels of the film hover somewhere between muted and hibernated. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) is a self-described "asshole" who's trying to reconnect with the family he ostracized. This proves no small challenge, since his patriarchy more closely resembled the relationship between a man and his neighbor's annoying dogs than that between a man and his family. Royal announces he's dying and his three miserable children, Chas (Ben Stiller), Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Richie (Luke Wilson), return for no apparent reason. Royal announces he wishes to make good with them before he dies -- go to the fair, throw the football around the park, that sort of thing. Frankly, I'm not a big believer in blood's value as a binding tie, and if others would just follow my lead, we'd have a lot fewer of these stupid dysfunctional family homages.
Virtually no exchange between Royal and his separated wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), between Margot and her husband (Bill Murray), between Etheline and her suitor (Danny Glover), or between Margot and her childhood friend (Owen Wilson) occurs above a whisper. I kept craning my neck to see if somebody was going to turn the sound up.
"The Royal Tenenbaums" puts the burden of connecting with the film squarely on the shoulders of the audience. Am I seriously supposed to care about the members of some rich, successful, genius family just because their home lives are miserable? There are many people in the world who are poor, unsuccessful and stupid, whose home lives are far more miserable than the Tenenbaums. They don't make movies about them, because nobody wants to pay eight-and-a-half dollars to be reminded that human reproduction is a curse, not a gift.
EDIT: Oops, forgot LINK
In this buffet of freakishness, "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the prime rib. There are no normal people in the movie, which leaves the audience hard-pressed to identify with any anyone in the film. Note to Anderson and Wilson: A collage of cunning eccentricities does not a character make. Without anything substantial to hold it up, all that clever quirky frosting just collapses into an incomprehensible heap.
Though the trendy coping mechanism Prozac is never mentioned, it seems as though every single character in this movie is on it. The emotional levels of the film hover somewhere between muted and hibernated. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) is a self-described "asshole" who's trying to reconnect with the family he ostracized. This proves no small challenge, since his patriarchy more closely resembled the relationship between a man and his neighbor's annoying dogs than that between a man and his family. Royal announces he's dying and his three miserable children, Chas (Ben Stiller), Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Richie (Luke Wilson), return for no apparent reason. Royal announces he wishes to make good with them before he dies -- go to the fair, throw the football around the park, that sort of thing. Frankly, I'm not a big believer in blood's value as a binding tie, and if others would just follow my lead, we'd have a lot fewer of these stupid dysfunctional family homages.
Virtually no exchange between Royal and his separated wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), between Margot and her husband (Bill Murray), between Etheline and her suitor (Danny Glover), or between Margot and her childhood friend (Owen Wilson) occurs above a whisper. I kept craning my neck to see if somebody was going to turn the sound up.
"The Royal Tenenbaums" puts the burden of connecting with the film squarely on the shoulders of the audience. Am I seriously supposed to care about the members of some rich, successful, genius family just because their home lives are miserable? There are many people in the world who are poor, unsuccessful and stupid, whose home lives are far more miserable than the Tenenbaums. They don't make movies about them, because nobody wants to pay eight-and-a-half dollars to be reminded that human reproduction is a curse, not a gift.
EDIT: Oops, forgot LINK
One of the best films of last year, I feel. But I'm biased because Rushmore (same director) is one of my all time favorite movies. If you liked that movie, then by all means watch it. If you are looking for a movie like, oh... Meet The Parents (which I hated) then forget it. It's not your sort of movie.
It's sort of the Being John Malkovich of last fall. Not rolling on the floor funny, but quirky and sardonic...
--Christopher
It's sort of the Being John Malkovich of last fall. Not rolling on the floor funny, but quirky and sardonic...
--Christopher
Glad to see so many Rushmore/Royal Tenenbaums fans in here
I really enjoyed the movie, but I still have to give a nod to Rushmore. I think about things in the movie at random times during the day and immediately start laughing, uncontrollably.
I watched Rushmore with a few friends, and I was the only one laughing. Most would identify me as a little "quirky", and I feel that both Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums are definitely "quirky"/eccentric films.
Bottle Rocket was good as well, but not Rushmore/Royal Tenenbaums good, imo.
I really enjoyed the movie, but I still have to give a nod to Rushmore. I think about things in the movie at random times during the day and immediately start laughing, uncontrollably.
I watched Rushmore with a few friends, and I was the only one laughing. Most would identify me as a little "quirky", and I feel that both Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums are definitely "quirky"/eccentric films.
Bottle Rocket was good as well, but not Rushmore/Royal Tenenbaums good, imo.
For those of you unfamiliar with Mr Cranky, he HATES every movie and is very sarcastic and hilarious.
i think the filthy critic is funnier
i think the filthy critic is funnier
It takes a certain type of person to really enjoy TRT...the same type of person who enjoyed the subdued quirky appeal of Rushmore, I assume.
I can't say I really LIKED both movies.. I will admit that they are very, very well done films, but with TRT I spent most of the time trying to figure out WTF was up with the characters.. I suppose if I took some mild mind-altering substances and watched it again in a dark room I might glean a bit more information from the movie.
I can't say I really LIKED both movies.. I will admit that they are very, very well done films, but with TRT I spent most of the time trying to figure out WTF was up with the characters.. I suppose if I took some mild mind-altering substances and watched it again in a dark room I might glean a bit more information from the movie.
One of my favorite movies. Strangely enough, I didn't like Rushmore at all. I loved Bottlerocket, though.
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