| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...an often clever film with some genuine laughs and a playful streak." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"I can't recommend it, but I would not for one second discourage you from seeing it." more... |
B- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"Despite its cast and director, it's an amazingly unfunny movie, drowned in its own conceits, half-strangled by the tongue so obtrusively in its cheek." more... |
C+ |
| E! Online |
"...we just can't get on board for this waterlogged trip." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"This may be a film composed only of little moments, ah, but what moments they are." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden |
"...wonderfully weird and wistful..." more... |
A- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"The Life Aquatic is best compared to a lavishly illustrated, haphazardly plotted picture book...the kind dreamy children don't so much read start to finish as browse and linger over, finding fuel for their own reveries." more... |
B+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The characters are not developed in such a way that they worm their way into our affections, so their interaction is obligatory and their fates are only a matter of mild curiosity." more... |
B- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"... hits some heavy weather. But Anderson holds steady to the delicate emotions that run beneath this stormy comedy of betrayal, death and forgiveness." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...to see a movie as textured as The Life Aquatic is to realize the thinness of the usual fare." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...it's paper-thin and instantly forgettable." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"What looks like a potentially attractive package follows in the dispiriting footsteps of not just Huckabees but also Napoleon Dynamite." more... |
C+ |
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