LaFountaine

On Monday I saw the movie “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou”, which starred: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston and Willem Dafoe.

The movie story involved the following: “Meet internationally renown oceanographer and documentarian Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and some of his Team Zissou: Eleanor Zissou (Anjelica Huston), his estranged wife and the "brains behind the operation"; Klaus Daimler (Willem Dafoe), the loyal chief engineer; and Oseary Drakoulias (Michael Gambon), the septuagenarian producer. Unfortunately, Zissou's days are numbered, having been pushed close to bankruptcy by his arch rival, Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum). But what's really bothering Zissou is that his best friend and longtime collaborator, Esteban (Seymour Cassel), has been eaten by an underwater assailant known as the Jaguar Shark. Charged by vengeance, Zissou sets out on his boat, The Belafonte, to hunt down the predator in one last filmed expedition. He is joined by two new Team Zissou members: Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), a young airline copilot who may be Zissou's son, and Jane Winslett-Richardson (Cate Blanchett), a beautiful and pregnant journalist assigned to write a profile of Zissou. Along the way, they face overwhelming complications, including marauding pirates, kidnappings and a maelstrom of human yearning.”

I give this movie a “C+”, and it is the worth of an admission ticket, a small popcorn and a small soft drink. There was too much Bill Murray in the movie, which nullified the acting performances of his co-stars.

posted by Frank LaFountaine @ 10:04 AM