Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 138 | Rotten: 35
The Royal Tenenbaums is a delightful adult comedy with many quirks and a sense of poignancy. Many critics especially praised Hackman's performance.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 9
The Royal Tenenbaums is a delightful adult comedy with many quirks and a sense of poignancy. Many critics especially praised Hackman's performance.
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Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston), an archaeologist. Each of the Tenenbaum kids was a precocious genius: Chas (Ben Stiller) made a killing as a child investor. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior tennis champ and
Jan 4, 2002 Wide
Jul 9, 2002
$52.3M
Buena Vista Distribution Compa
All Critics (176) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (145) | Rotten (35) | DVD (39)
As with Anderson's Rushmore, there's a certain annoying preciousness to this film -- it's not so consistently wise or amusing as he thinks it is -- but it has its moments.
As richly conceived as the novel it pretends to be...
Whatever my qualms, it's still one of the funniest comedies around.
Apart from Hackman, the actors look more trapped by Anderson's rigid framing, color scheme, and enforced deadpan.
Anderson is something of a prodigy himself, and he's riddled with talent, but he hasn't figured out how to be askew and heartfelt at the same time.
The movie is deeper than it appears to be.
Its laughs are like stealth bombers, sneaking up on us to the extent that we suddenly find ourselves chortling even as we're wrapped up in the movie's unexpected air of melancholia.
Quirky extended-family story with dry adult humor.
What remains Wes Anderson's most poetic film is the story of a family fractured by envy and fumbling for empathy at the insistence of a patriarch, perfectly played by Gene Hackman with affection and antagonism.
The filmmaker's great conjunction picture, where every element, from casting to cinematography, found perfect alignment, bringing about Anderson's most emotionally pulling, visually arresting feature.
Despite countless unique and amazing moments, the movie doesn't quite come together--which may not, in fact, go against the director's master plan.
Wes Anderson has made his masterpiece. It's going to be hard for him to match it.
A wacky story that bumps up against one's heart as often as it does one's funny bone...
To call it merely peculiar is a gross understatement.
Forget Max Fischer - this is Wes Anderson's opus.
Anderson's film continues his exporation of dysfunctional families, this time a round done as novelistic film, with title cards for each chapter.
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Wilson are gifted artists, and I look forward to seeing them produce something that strives for more than just sustaining their own hype.
A comedy of unrequited love, melancholy and disappointment. One to savour.
It's one of the year's very best films.
Very funny and painfully relevant two hours of entertainment.
Wes Anderson simply has a unique way of looking at the world, and through him the ridiculous is made sublime. He has a hell of a distinctive style for someone his age. It would appear he might even be some kind of goddamn genius himself.
There is some whiff of the golf club with Wes Anderson for me. He is sometimes funny, but what he perceives as humor leaves a lot to be desired. This movie has the makings of a good one, but never quite gets over the hedge. This is just an okay film.
April 23, 2012Super Reviewer
Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' is a remarkable piece of filmmaking. Every scene oozes charm, delight, whimsy, and brilliance. Anderson and Wilson create another amazing script with great bouts of dialogue and interesting character development. The cast is so strong, each character is not only acted to perfection
March 13, 2012Super Reviewer
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