Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 168
Fresh: 113 | Rotten: 55
With the requisite combination of humor, sorrow and outstanding visuals, The Darjeeling Limited will satisfy Wes Anderson fans.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 15
With the requisite combination of humor, sorrow and outstanding visuals, The Darjeeling Limited will satisfy Wes Anderson fans.
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Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody as three brothers who, at the insistence of the oldest, take a train ride through India together in order to strengthen their bond. Even though the vacation goes wrong in ways they do not anticipate, the strangeness of their setting and some revealing honesty produces some surprising changes between them all. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
R, 1 hr. 31 min.
Oct 26, 2007 Wide
Feb 26, 2008
$11.7M
Fox Searchlight Pictures
All Critics (174) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (123) | Rotten (58) | DVD (27)
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.
Anderson quirky!
... 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.
Wes Anderson's 'Darjeeling Limited' is the brilliant director's most mature film, but that is not synonymous with his best. I did not find the film as funny as the gems 'Rushmore' or 'Royal Tenenbaums', not even 'The Life Aquatic'. But it had its strong points of hilarity, emotion, and substance. The acting trio are
March 28, 2012Super Reviewer
Most likely Wes Anderson's most underrated film. A terrific acting trio along with the classic Anderson brand of humor and the most stunning visuals and set pieces than his other films, this is a train ride you definitely won't be disappointed that you took!
January 18, 2012Super Reviewer
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