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The trailer is fine, but can't answer any questions as to the quailty of the script. It has potential, but I fear it may well settle into the recent trap of being quirky for quirky's sake. Wes Anderson isn't spawning as many imitators as Tarantino after Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but he's definitely got a following. Unfortunately nobody else has his same depth of character and strength of mood and theme.
For me Napoleon Dynamite and Garden State fall into this category. They're both good movies, and for directorial/writing debuts quite impressive really. But they don't have that extra ingredient to push them over the top to great movies. From my perspective, both movies focus too much on quirks as character and incident, instead of having quirky things devlop organically in the polt and be extensions of well-realized characters. Being off-beat doesn't pay off unless there's something more to it. Wes' movies have that in spades. The younger filmmakers spawned in the wake of his influence too often do not. If I were a betting man, based on David Russell's first three films (I think Spanking the Monkey is still his best) and the trailer, I 'd guess I Heart Huckabees is going to be another disappointment. It may be amusing, it's obviuosly populated by good actors, but making that leap to the same kind of high level as Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums is a tough task.
I'm looking forward to I Heart Huckabees, but my expectations are realistically set. I hope it surprises me, that it's wonderful. But I wouldn't bet any money on it. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou however, that one I'm very eagerly anticipating and expect everything from. I'm also betting I won't be disappointed by Wes and company.
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