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Female consensus: They don't respect it, but they like it anyway
The Life Aquatic
Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston
Director: Wes Anderson
Rating: R
The female critics have a better time in the almost equally male-dominated movie universe of Wes Anderson's latest comic creation. This band of guys is not off on a heist, but on a revenge mission to kill a shark that ate a favorite crew member on an aquatic adventure. This film doesn't have much more of a plot than Ocean's Twelve, but that's practically a selling point for Los Angeles Times critic Carina Chocano, who calls it "an exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower." Los Angeles Weekly's Ella Taylor, on the other hand, longs for the days when Wes Anderson made smaller movies. "The Life Aquatic is a potentially great little cult picture shrieking in protest at being bumped up into a $50 million studio movie whose only real pleasure is its happy-color production design. A huge ensemble with little to do but act wacky doesn't help," she says. But it's Salon's Stephanie Zacharek who is the least impressed. The movie, she says, is "waterlogged with whimsy."