None of their roles are given any substance or depth and I didn’t buy any of their characters as being anything else than the actors in quirk mode for the sake of Anderson. Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, the list goes on: a stacked source of talent that just feels there to be there. The cast is so big but Anderson forgets why a-list casts work and the character actors are not present here. A star-studded comedy about aliens inexplicably appearing in a small town in the middle of nowhere, set to the structure of a play in which we learn more about the actors playing the parts in what should be a delightfully meta structure, but it just comes off as insufferable.
The French Dispatch put me to sleep.Īnd just like his prior work: Asteroid City very nearly does, too.
Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, incredible, but the more I watch the more his style starts to test my patience: cold, empty and blank. My stance on Wes Anderson is thus: like most of you, probably, I like the films that I watched by him first. Asteroid City is the kind of film that you’ll either hate or love there’s no middle ground.