Moonrise Kingdom

I didn’t like it.

It was way too precious. It was like a fabulously dressed man who is so concerned with quirky mannerisms and witty observances that he displays little actual personality. Characters without cracks in their facade are supremely uninteresting to me. Wes Anderson styled the movie down to the very last eye twitch. Doing so covered over the humanity that was amplified rather than drown out by the style in his earlier films.

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  1. afistfulofstyle said: I felt it was less affected than DLtd. and less twee than FMrFox. The family/camp interactions were more “realistic” than the daddy issues in several of his other movies. Though by now you kind of dig WA movies or you don’t.
  2. thisfits said: You’ve captured how I feel about every Wes Anderson film I’ve seen.
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