Bottle Rocket

Year: 1996

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Anderson

Review

a more funny and more touching wes anderson film than the life aquatic. i actually didn’t remember that this film had some degree of poignancy to it. perhaps it was the failed attempt to interject these feelings in the life aquatic that made me realize that all of wes anderson’s films have this element. before life aquatic, though, that element of his films went largely unnoticed, and that’s a good thing because it never felt like i was being led, rather it was a natural reaction to a very odd, but natural set of films. this one isn’t nearly the masterpiece that rushmore is, but it’s a solid freshman effort.