The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Just watched this over the weekend. Borrowed it from Grace. Was watching it while I was half asleep. But still, it was pretty hilarious. Here's the official site. It stars Bill Murray as Steve Zissou, an internationally famous oceanographer-cum-documentarian and yet another grumpy old man facing a mid-life crisis, Owen Wilson as his possible son and Willem Dafoe as Klaus the German first mate. He's absolutely brillant in this role.

Of course, it also stars the subliminally beautiful Cate Blanchett.



And you really haven't lived until you have heard covers of David Bowie sung in Portuguese and played bossa nova style. Director Wes Anderson sprinkles these covers all over the movie seamlessly. All the tunes were sung by the Brazilian actor and recording artist, Seu Jorge. In addition, it features an irritatingly good soundtrack (which is just plain irritating. Reminds me of Weiyuan's 'Electric Jang 2') which is scored by Mark Mothersbough of Devo. That pretty explains the Casiotone-like soundtrack...

You should get your hands on a copy of the movie. If you are still not convinced, Anderson used stop-motion animation, instead of CGI for the movie. Now, get!