The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

I know this is a bit of a late review (considering I went to watch it on wednesday), but I was out watching Bill Baileys new stand-up tour in Wembley Arena, and it was awesome, but enough of that, this a film review.

This week we went to see The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and were relatively impressed, my lady Shiv (who had never seen a Wes Anderson film before) was pleasantly surprised, she was a little confused at the start with the seemingly irrelevant short film, but as the plot progressed we both became more and more attached to the characters, as you often do with these films.

Whilst this wasn't one of Andersons best, it was still a lot better than some of the films I watched recently (eg the irratic Elizabeth: the goldan age, and the unemotional Bricklane). It was nice to care about the characters. Some see the film as failing in the respect that it was meant to undermine the idea of spiritual enlightenment. But personally, I see it doing this to a certain degree, it shows how their spiritual moment merely gave them the opportunity and forced them to confront their past, and become closer, whilst at the same time you never feel that it has cured all issues, merely allowed them to understand each other better.

I would give this filme a respectable 7.5/10 loosing marks in the fact that I much preferred life aquatic, and on the odd occassion it got a little slow. But overall a great film, and one I wouldn't say no to watching again!