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| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection | 
 enlarge | Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  334 reviews
Sales Rank: 5093
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Icelandic (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), Tagalog (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD40464D
ISBN: 0788860291
UPC: 786936286892
EAN: 9780788860294
ASIN: B0007UC8Y4
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2004
Release Date: May 10, 2005
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Product Description
Internationally famous ocenaographer steve zissou & his crew set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious elusive - possibly nonexistent - jaguar shark that killed zissous partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/16/2006 Starring: Bill Murray Cate Blanchett
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In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 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. Zissou's 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 Zissou's son. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for fatherhood, Zissou welcomes Ned--and Ned in turn saves Zissou's new documentary (in which he seeks revenge on the jaguar shark) in more ways than one.
One of Wes Anderson's greatest achievements as a director to date has been launching the autumnal melancholy phase of Bill Murray's 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 doesn't get to develop Ned much beyond Noble Southerner, and he ends up seeming more like a prop for illustrating Zissou's emotional development rather than his own man. The Life Aquatic probably won't be remembered as a great film, but it is still one that no Anderson (or Murray) fan can afford to miss.--Leah Weathersby
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 I love this movie December 29, 2008
Loved it , the cast is always a good time....very funny...The ocean scenes are beautiful...and Angelica Houston is exceptionally quirky!
Mock you mentally December 25, 2008
A totally wacked out film, and the second Bill Murray flick about a guy who may or may not be coming face to face with the son he may have had with an old flame (see also Dead Flowers). This time, though, he's got a cast of eccentric sidekicks, among them Seu Jorge (from City of God, who spends most of his time singing old David Bowie songs in Portuguese) and Willem Defoe (difficult to recognize here, since he's playing a supporting role, as a cranky German). There's also Bud Cort, fat and balding, as a kidnapped accountant, and Cate Blanchett stunning as a pregnant journalist. Owen Wilson, omnipresent on a Wes Anderson set, is there as Bill Murray's son, he's the weakest part of the film. Witty Woody Allen-esque dialogue and quirky scene changes abound, and the encounter with pirates is pure garbage... but it's nice garbage.
 All wet December 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jacques Cousteau-type filmmaker Steve Zissou is off to film his search for the jaguar shark that killed his partner. Among the motley crew aboard are his disinterested wife, a pregnant journalist, and a man who may be his son.
Bill Murray plays the title character with an unrelenting poker-face, so dour and expressionless that I couldn't relate to him at all. I kept waiting for some of the silliness that Murray does so well, but Steve remained a one-dimensional character throughout. This type of humor escaped me completely. I thought it was tiresome and might have made a good 30-minute film, but not a full-length film. Cate Blanchett was wasted as the journalist as was Jeff Goldblum as a competing filmmaker. Owen Wilson, playing Steve's possible son, was appealing but couldn't make up for the other lifeless characters and the pointless script.
If the director's odd take on humor isn't enough reason to skip this film, there's the terrible DVD commentary, which was recorded in a busy restaurant and is impossible to listen to. Disappointing.
 Deeeeeeeeeep Philosophy December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is about a journey in the past, beneath ocean surface to find something for fulfilling the sweet feelings of friendship an adventurous tycoon might never ever be experiencing in the rest of this life.
Pirates, sex, plenty of shaped, body-built males and many crouches clad into tight swimmers.
Perhaps, a heavy advertising reflects rather who were involved in creating this work rather than on a feature itself symbolising a life journey of outgoing persons, or?
Not one of Bill Murray's best November 18, 2008
Owen Wilson puts in the best turn in this. There are some funny scenes, but the dry humour doesn't always work that well and while Bill Murray is always good, this isn't him at his best, which is a shame.
Worth watching.
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