While the film was beautiful pictorially, the all-star cast was wasted on a flimsy script that couldn't decide whether it wanted to be funny or serious. The story itself is a good one, and might have been very compelling if it were handled in a serious way but they way it was handled was plain awful. If Anderson wanted to make a comedy if should have had many more laugh lines in the script. The chuckles from the audience were few and far between, and in fact, they almost sounded somewhat embarrassing, like we're supposed to laugh at this part. You really wonder whether any of the cast actually read the screenplay beforehand. I'd have to say this was pretty disappointing.