Third film I see from Mister Anderson... (wait for it... Anderson!!! - sorry, couldn't resist.) Anyway, third film I see and second confirmation that the writer/director has nothing to say and no story to tell.

Still, if you like his previous works, you may enjoy this one as well. Which I didn't either. To his credit, he has perfected his visual technique, and produced a lot of appealing pictures. Unfortunately, that's all there is to see. It plays out as a long succession of vignettes, of stills, some of them very much like Flamish paintings. And the initial appeal gets old pretty quickly. It's not so much a film as it is a slide-show. Or at times a cartoon. Not a funny one; the cartoonish scenes, like the snow chase, are plain ridiculous.

Maybe, just maybe, Wes Anderson works hard to emulate some talented directors he likes, but without the flair and a decent writer. I must however commend his insistence in treating the mundane and the ugly in the most aesthetic manner. Even desperate cases like Owen Wilson.

Definitely not my cup of tea. I'll watch another of his directorial efforts one day, but I'll wait for one that he doesn't write himself.