The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

DVD

Condition

Good

Category

DVD

Actor

Bill Murray

Actor

Willem Dafoe

Actor

Owen Wilson

Actor

Cate Blanchett

Actor

Anjelica Huston

Actor

Jeff Goldblum

Actor

Michael Gambon

Actor

Noah Taylor

Audience Rating

Suitable for 15 years and over

Certificate

15

Director

Wes Anderson

Edition

Standard

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Manufacturer

Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Number Of Discs

2

Publisher

WDHE

Region Code

DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)

Release Year

2005

Release Date

2005-07-04

Running Time Units = minutes

114

Sub- Genre

Comedy

Type

Movie

U P C

8717418047191

E A N

8717418047191

Film/ T V Title

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Format

DVD

Encoding

PAL

Features

Widescreen

Subtitle Language

English

Synopsis

Comedy adventure starring Bill Murray as internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou. Steve 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 last adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot who may or may not be Zissou's son (Owen Wilson), a beautiful journalist (Cate Blanchett) assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and Zissou's estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). They face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy.
In The Life Aquatic, director Wes Anderson takes his familiar stable of actors on a field trip to a fantasy aquarium, complete with stop-motion, candy-striped crabs and rainbow seahorses. And though Anderson does expand his horizons in terms of retro-special effects and a whimsical use of color, fans will otherwise find themselves in well-charted waters. As The Life Aquatic opens, Zissou (Bill Murray), a self-involved, Jacques Cousteau-like filmmaker, has just released a documentary depicting the death of his best friend Esteban, who was eaten by some sort of sea creature--possibly a jaguar shark. Zissous troubles also include his waning popularity with the public, and a nemesis (Jeff Goldblum) who hogs up all the grant money. Hope arrives in the form of Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), an amiable Kentuckian who may be Zissous son. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for fatherhood, Zissou welcomes Ned--and Ned in turn saves Zissous new documentary (in which he seeks revenge on the jaguar shark) in more ways than one.
One of Wes Andersons greatest achievements as a director to date has been launching the autumnal melancholy phase of Bill Murrays career, starting with Rushmore in 1998, and Murray delivers a similarly comedic yet low-key performance here. Unfortunately, Zissou is one of the few characters in this ensemble to achieve multi-dimensionality. Even co-star Wilson doesnt get to develop Ned much beyond Noble Southerner, and he ends up seeming more like a prop for illustrating Zissous emotional development rather than his own man. The Life Aquatic probably wont be remembered as a great film, but it is still one that no Anderson (or Murray) fan can afford to miss.

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