Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) by Navybean — 22 Apr 2014
Best for the smug. The "too-loud laughter of the art-house patron" is a review that would work on this film. There's an audience for this that wants to think they're in on the joke and the rest of us rabble don't have the emotional intelligence to see the forest. But the joke's on them.
This is a beautiful-looking, highly-styled, clever but EMPTY film. These are Wes Anderson characters in Wes Anderson settings. The dialogue is cute, but gets old by the end ... there's no arc, no development ... just odd, quirky characters who are odd and quirky for the sake of it.
Rushmore and Moonlight Kingdom worked because the characters were great, lonely people. There are no great characters in GBH ... and the story is thin ... but it does look nice.
This review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) was written by Navybean on 22 Apr 2014.
The Grand Budapest Hotel has generally received very positive reviews.
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