Comedy/Adventure/Drama — 118 min — Directed by Wes Anderson
Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew--Team Zissou--set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and Zissou's estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor. They face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy.
How the Hell does this get a 7.3 rating at imdb.com? Plants? It's one awful piece of stinking shit. How the director managed to get the $25 million budget is a no-brainer with a cast like this. I bet they thought it would be a great film. I wonder how many of the executives who saw early footage from this managed to avoid choking to death. I've never seen such a waste of talent go so totally overboard, pardon the pun, in such a total shipwreck of a movie. This one falls flat on all counts. The director must have spent the money on hookers and parties, because it's not in this movie. Well, apart from the 25 cents he spent on the story.
Performance-wise only Willem Defoe manages to do anything at all with his role, which isn't much to boast about. Bill Murray looked like he was sleepwalking for the entire duration. Oh, I really suffered to get through the whole thing, but I forced myself to watch it till the end. I barely made it. Wes Anderson should be taken out to sea and dumped there along with all copies ever made of this total waste of film. The world would be a better place. Fuck!
My rating: 1 /10
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