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nicolaskrizan

charming and quirky as always, though not in the book

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9 years 9 months ago

TheOnlyRogueAngel

A rom-com for kids. Not one I'd recommend for anyone over 16..

11 years ago

Skyscore

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11 years 10 months ago

estiedelruth

Not very enjoyable - especially when forced to watch this in a religious education class.

10 years 11 months ago

RosePlantQueen

I really wanted to fall in love with this film, but the film's POV left me feeling cold, alas.

11 years 1 month ago

An OK film by Anderson's standards.
Does not match up to Zissou, Tenebaums or Darjeeling Ltd.
The soundtrack wasn't the usual best, and the children though good were not compelling enough like his usual adult protagonists. Maybe because the adult characters had greater depth.
Also, the film title did not feature the usual 'Futura' font :|
Missed Owen Wilson. And Bruce Willis did not fit in the mould of the usual Anderson characters, maybe the latter should stick to his old crew...

11 years 7 months ago

Deus

Quite disappointed

11 years 9 months ago

devilsadvocado

It was too short of a glimpse into a really interesting world, and yet I'm not sure the narrative was strong enough to have carried it beyond the 1.5 hours it already filled.

I think what separates Anderson's good movies from his great ones, is whether or not the piece can be considered substance over style or vice versa. I consider Moonrise Kingdom to be of the latter.

Updated ranking of Wes Anderson's filmology:
1. Rushmore
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Life Aquatic
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Moonrise Kingdom
6. Bottle Rocket
7. The Darjeeling Limited

11 years 12 months ago

heat_

No, this is not a kids' movie.

3 years 3 months ago

kurvduam

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8 years 3 months ago

Siskoid

Like Mr. Fox, it's a kids' story, but an unsanitized one, a throwback to kids movies of the 70s and early 80s, and I'm sorry if I can't come up with a well-known American one, but my French-Canadian cousins will know La guerre des tuques (maybe you know it as The Great Snowball War or as The Dog Who Stopped the War), which has the same vibe. With its yellow filters, Moonrise Kingdom even looks like a film of the era it represents (the 60s). It's about a sweet romance between 12-year-olds, one a super-competent but isolated orphan scout, the other a pre-Goth Goth girl who loves books but gets into much trouble at school. They live on a fictional New England island that is a world unto itself, and run away together, at least for as long as they aren't discovered. It's wonderful, and you never know where it's all going to go. I have a friend who claims each new Wes Anderson film is his new favorite, and I think I've just gone through that experience in a matter of days.

8 years 10 months ago