adventures in odyssey: shadow of a doubt cast

A popular Tiktok trend doing the rounds lately has been “x in the style of Wes Anderson” and the AI misses the point of why the best Wes Anderson movies work so well they’re so full of depth and humour but he’s lost that kind of spark and falls into the same trap that these Tiktok videos have fallen into – a parody of himself.Īt some point, Anderson got wrapped up in the idea of casting big names because they’re big names and forgets to do anything interesting with them.

An exercise in style at the extent of all else – it’s blunt, hard-edged and not exact in its subtitles. Russell: the big names at the extent of all else. Anderson has enough gravitas to not seem like a copycat and it’s better thankfully than Amsterdam but he’s fallen into the same trap of David O.

But Asteroid City fails to appease – hitting all the usual Anderson tropes with the lack of substance that most of his movies have. That’s part of the deliberate coldness of Anderson, his style is designed to alienate. It’s hard to see their characters and not the actors and none of them succeeded in making me believe in any of this. 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.

Adventures in odyssey: shadow of a doubt cast