Entertaining and engaging, and also deliberately strange.
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10/06/07
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
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Reviews Counted:164
Fresh:110
Rotten:54
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: With the requisite combination of humor, sorrow and outstanding visuals, The Darjeeling Limited will satisfy Wes Anderson fans.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 29, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $11,743,402
Synopsis: Wes Anderson, the creator of RUSHMORE and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, offers another quirky, melancholic riff on familial ties and father issues in THE DARJEELING LIMITED. Francis (Owen Wilson) has... [More]
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston
Director: Wes Anderson
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Reviews for The Darjeeling Limited
The Darjeeling Limited is like an artist attempting to play back the exact same song, note for note. It's almost always better the first time.
10/06/07
Each scene feels like its own little Hotel Chevalier, contrived for the mere purpose of seduction and nothing more.
10/05/07
The movie runs deepest when the brothers finally deal with their baggage, both real and metaphysical.
10/05/07
Top CriticA frustrating movie, a work of immaturity from a director who should be past the empty gestures and self-protective distance of his early work.
10/05/07
Top CriticAn easy movie to admire but more difficult to like. Technically and thematically, there's a lot in The Darjeeling Limited to arrest the attention. Emotionally, there's a void.
10/05/07
Top CriticAn extraordinary movie, filled with splendor, laughter and a touch of cosmic wisdom. You won't forget it.
10/05/07
None of it rings true; the unifying element is self-consciousness.
10/05/07
Saddled with a one-track plot and dry performances that never really go anywhere, even when the story literally goes off the rails.
10/05/07
What's offensive is the way Anderson has used an entire country and its people as set dressing. Poverty and reality don't enter into the picture.
10/05/07
The preciousness of this new enterprise pollutes the human relationships until everything seems like a pose.
10/05/07
Top CriticA better film [than Life Aquatic], warmer, more engaging, funnier and very surrounded by India, that nation of perplexing charm.
10/05/07
Top CriticUnexpectedly fresh, if indisputably minor.
10/05/07
Dysfunctional families are as common on screen as off, but director Wes Anderson has a flair for making his clans seem bizarrely unique and yet recognizable too.
10/05/07
Top CriticThe Darjeeling Limited, which is based on a worthy story that ultimately needed more density, shines during its naturally peculiar scenes but blots out its own sun with contrived injections.
10/05/07
Anderson's best and most satisfying work since Rushmore
10/04/07
The film about three brothers in the wake of their dad's death is a pleasurable journey to nowhere, but it's worth the ride.
10/04/07
Top CriticThe Darjeeling Limited has its charms, chief of which is watching three terrific actors evince with unforced ease the rewards and resentments of brotherhood.
10/04/07
Captures the wistful woe and longing that drove the best parts of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.
10/04/07
However irregular the beat, this one has a heart.
10/04/07
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