The Grand Budapest Hotel Review
Finally the time has arrived. With Wes Anderson's latest film The Grand Budapest Hotel getting it's full theater release this past Friday, anyone can experience what might be Anderson's most vibrant, colorful, and lively work to date.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is certainly a Wes Anderson film. As always, it's chock full of whimsical little quirks and quips. This time, the humor is even more biting, the scenery more lavish, the plot more twisted and at times fantasical. The film tells the story of the hotel itself, and it's succession of owners, particularly it's most renowned owner M. Gustave H., and the strange murder mystery he found himself wrapped up in, all told through Gustave's lobby boy and the hotel's current owner Zero Moustafa, who dictates the story to a young writer over dinner.
As previously mentioned, the film is vibrant and beautifully shot, and the script is filled with wit so clever you can't help but let out little chuckles and at times even laugh quite hard. The film also features with fantastic performances, especially by Ralph Finnes who plays the previously mentioned M. Gustave H. The film is a real treat for Wes Anderson fans, highly stylised as is common through each of his films and complete with a full range of Wes Anderson regulars and one-off collaborators such as Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, and Adrian Brody.
I most certainly recommend this film to fans of Wes Anderson's earlier work. To those who are not familiar with the director: I truly feel that is a wonderously clever and interesting film by a truly unique filmmaker, and most definitely worth giving a chance, but the everyday viewer may be turned off by the whimsical and quirky style. The film might simply be too strange, outlandish, and stylistic for some to fully enjoy.
4.5/5 Stars
