So it’s been about five minutes since getting back to the apartment after seeing Wes Anderson’s new film The Grand Budapest Hotel and I have to say, I was pleased. I didn’t want to be blindsided by the amazing cast advertised in the movie, but I was very excited and high expectations for the film based on the cast alone. I know it’s generally a bad idea to assume a movie will be good based on the cast alone, but Wes Anderson tends to not disappoint. There was also very minimal amounts of Owen Wilson (who I am not fond of).

The structure of the movie was mostly a narrative and I tend to enjoy narratives quite a bit (Perfume). I don’t have much to say beyond that, but it is definitely a moving story about Tony Revolori‘s character Zero coming into his inheritance of the hotel and how Ralph Fiennes‘ is a total badass who all men should strive to be like.

As the whole movie unfolds and you learn more and more about Fiennes and Revolori’s characters it becomes apparent that the movie as a whole is sad, but very touching. The Grand Budapest Hotel is full of typical Wes Anderson antics such as center framed shots (all the time), specific aspect ratios for various settings in time, and of course dry humor followed by excellently silly abrupt chase scenes. Oh yeah, and BILL FUCKING MURRAY!!!

He’s not in it enough, but the entire cast comes together excellently to make for an excellent movie that I can only hope will hit broadway starring the exact same people…hopefully.

8/10 for awesomeness (could have been a 9 with more B. Murray.)

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