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It's an affected film about disaffected people, and no cast in the world could save it.
This film is indeed Limited -- in appeal, sincerity and substance.
Even those invested in the idea that the journey is the destination may feel they've taken a train to nowhere.
The whimsy of it all does a passable job of covering the dull stretches, and the actors, to a one (Bill Murray has a cameo, Anjelica Huston shows up) make it watchable.
None of this is as amusing as the writers ostensibly imagine it to be.
The Darjeeling Limited is a step toward maturity for Anderson, too. His visual ideas are still overcalculated and the tone is often precious, but emotionally he seems to have expanded.
Wes Anderson manages to make the exotic Indian countryside seem like a suburb of Houston.
The Whitman brothers learn to experience the mysteries of life in Wes Anderson's sublime The Darjeeling Limited, which gets a perfectly calibrated Blu-ray release from the Criterion Collection.
The jewel in Wes Anderson's crown!
Arguably Wes Anderson's most compassionate, mature film, "Darjeeling" dances around disconcerting what-ifs: If they weren't your brothers and sisters, would you voluntarily befriend them, or do you tolerate quirks and annoyances because blood links you?
Like Anderson's other work, this is light comedy (albeit comedy that flirts with an appealing ridiculousness) that carries with it a satisfying intelligence.
The melancholy is mostly notional and entirely unearned, bought ready-made in '60s songs
Lo que podría haber sido una original road movie en tren termina diluyéndose en una experiencia caprichosa, carente de humor y sensibilidad, y finalmente algo irritante.
The technical prowess of Wes Anderson is still top-notch, with the best example being the train showcasing all of the characters at the end.
... a nice sense of fraternal affection under the frustration, playful details in the margins, a bouncy energy, and Anderson's idiosyncratic tastes in fashion and music.
It eventually goes somewhere, but I'm not sure where. It is a pleasant enough trip for the most part.
Anderson's films have been a series of diminishing returns after the delightful Rushmore. The Darjeeling Limited is easy to admire but hard to like.
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