[Ghoulish Delight]

Finally watched Life Aquatic. Gotta say, I'm baffled by the luke-warm reception it received. I thought it was a great movie. It had me engaged from beginning to end, the animation was inspired, the characters were tremendous.

I've seen all of Anderson's movies, and I really don't get the seemingly common sentiment of, "It was pretty good, but nothing compared to his others." Not that I'd try to dissuade anyone from saying such-and-such is my favorite Anderson film (I can't even really peg what my favorite is), but for this to be so universally ranked as his weakest...don't get it.