This is a film analysis of the movie "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" It is another quirkfest from Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tannenbaums)

Another quirkfest from Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tannenbaums), this film has some of the most imaginatively charming images on screen this year, especially a tiny rainbow-striped seahorse and a cutaway side view of a ship that is as delightfully cluttered as a dollhouse conceived by Joseph Cornell. And it has Anderson's trademark oddball characters from a mix of cultures, all speaking in his trademark corkscrew speech and reacting as though no two …showed first 75 words of 607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 607 total…more attached to his friend who was killed than to anyone else in his family or crew. What mattered to him? What mattered to Ned and Jane? What did it add to her character to have her pregnant? Families who enjoy this movie will also enjoy Anderson's other films, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, and The Royal Tannenbaums. They might want to learn something about Jacques Coustou, whose voyages (and the movies about them) inspired this film.