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	The Life Aquatic (2004)
		The Life Aquatic is full of the droll exposition you'd expect from a Wes Anderson picture, but Murray's Steve Zissou brings a deeper emotional dimension lacking in Gene Hackman's Royal Tennenbaum.
		The Life Aquatic continues Wes Anderson's (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) trend of films that are seemingly comedies composed of realistic fiction, but include more fantastic and imaginative dream-like qualities in his characters and story than would be first expected.
		The Life Aquatic is the story of a washed up sea explorer named Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) who sets out to find and kill the fish who swallowed his best friend, Esteban.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/LifeAquatic/LifeAquatic.html (1693 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection DVD Review
		The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a bit more indulgent than Anderson's past efforts, but the director's unique and affecting style still provides some atypical humor and a fair amount of pathos.
		The Life Aquatic is presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, which the packaging takes efforts to point out is approved by director Wes Anderson, comes from a high-definition source and is digital (well, duh).
		"Aquatic Life" (7:50) is a featurette which many UD readers will find interesting: it discusses the visual effects of the film, particularly the stop-motion animation used to bring to life the undersea creatures.
	www.ultimatedisney.com /thelifeaquatic.html (3744 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Wes Anderson's fourth feature length film and was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004.
		The Life Aquatic in many ways is actually shot from the perspective of a Zissou documentary.
		Indeed the movie poster itself is titled 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou', showing that the movie itself is one of Zissou's creations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Life_Aquatic (1681 words)

	K.U.T Recensie : The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		K.U.T Recensie : The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		The Life Aquatic is geen dijenkletser, maar een grap op zichzelf.
		En The Life Aquatic is eigenlijk nog veel meer.
	www.kutsite.com /recensie/lifeaquatic.html (835 words)

	"The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" is like a very elaborate diorama in a shoebox -- which is fine, unless you go to it expecting to see a movie.
		Anderson's movies may be self-congratulatory and precociously bratty, but he's not a cold director: "The Life Aquatic" does seem to have been motivated by a generousness of spirit, and obviously, Anderson is acutely aware of, and very interested in tapping, what's special about Murray as an actor.
		That's frustrating, because it's possible that there's a fine, idiosyncratically heartfelt little picture buried somewhere in "The Life Aquatic." But as young as Anderson is, he has already been hailed as an "original," which means, unfortunately, that he's apparently exempt from learning anything about giving his movies some bone structure.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2004/12/10/life_aquatic/index.html (849 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - Rotten Tomatoes
		In Wes Anderson's THE LIFE AQUATIC, a group of oceanic explorers who call themselves Team Zissou embark on a journey to hunt down the "jaguar shark" that ate one of their crew members (Seymour Cassel).
		• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou at IGN
		• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou at AskMen
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/life_aquatic (1059 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Movie - The Hollywood News
		The Life Aquatic uses all the elements we've come to expect from a Wes Anderson picture - cynicism, sarcasm, irony, eccentricities, a touch of whimsy, and a cold chill.
		The Life Aquatic, by comparison, loses it’s way on more than one occasion.The film is reportedly based on the life of the legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau, but upon viewing it, it will be extremely obvious that a world of liberties have been taken.
		Like The Life Aquatic, Huckabees is odd and overflowing with various views of that funny thing called life, but it’s also much more consistent and when it was over, I felt like there was a point to it.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/lifeaquatic.php (921 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
		While “The Life Aquatic”, Anderson’s latest work, does not quite reach the heights of his best films (like “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tenenbaums” which, in my opinion, are nearly equal in greatness) it’s still riveting entertainment.
		Though essentially about a man finding himself very late in life (or, at the very least, rediscovering what made him great in the first place) and connecting with a son he didn’t know he had (or did he?) the film is ostensibly Wes Anderson’s version of an adventure film.
		I understood Anderson’s motivations for rendering the aquatic creatures with old-fashioned, stop-motion animation techniques (and the techniques are quaint, by the people who brought you the wonderful worlds of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “James and the Giant Peach”) but the animation doesn’t quite jibe with the rest of the picture.
	www.afistfulofreviews.com /ijkl/lifeaquaticwithstevezissou_dn.htm (709 words)

	The Life Aquatic
		Something’s missing from “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” an essential piece of the puzzle that leaves this comedy feeling more odd and disjointed than endearingly wacky.
		What dooms “Life Aquatic” from the start is that Anderson has changed an essential part of the formula.
		“Life Aquatic” is the story of Plimpton’s entry into the Zissou universe, how it shakes up the balance of power among Zissou’s crew, and about their errand of revenge in hunting down a shark that ate Zissou’s friend on a previous mission.
	movies.zertinet.com /2004/lifeaquatic.htm (613 words)

	The Yale Herald - January 14, 2005 - Wes’ wild and wonder-filled wet dream
		Meanwhile, Anderson (co-writer Noah Baumbach deserves some blame as well) heaps on enough troubled relationships between his characters to make a soap-opera writer proud, mines them for some emotion, and calls it a day—and thus turns what should be a terrible, terrible movie into one of the finest of the year.
		She says something to the effect that "They feel fake," which, ironically, is about the only line in the film that rings true to me. The Life Aquatic, at its worst anyway, feels fake.
		With The Life Aquatic, he has crafted something that both caps that genre (to this point, anyway) and disappoints it.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=3889 (676 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
		Now comes "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," which enlists many Anderson regulars—Bill Murray (2003's "Lost in Translation"), Owen Wilson (2004's "Starsky & Hutch"), and Anjelica Huston (2003's "Daddy Day Care") among them—for a thoroughly unfunny, dead-end comedy that goes nowhere for a patience-testing 119 minutes.
		Written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is a too-cute, emotionally distant bore whose very point for existing gets lost in endless scenes where characters sit around and talk to each other without saying much of consequence.
		Without anything perceptive to say about families, fading glory, or filmmaking, and with the amount of earned laughs to be had counted on one hand, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is a curiously cold experience and a monumental waste of time.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/l/04_lifeaquatic.htm (847 words)

	Amazon.com: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Bill Murray,Owen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		"The Life Aquatic" is a veritable beggar's banquet for the eyes and the ears (a Brazilian troubadour sings David Bowie songs throughout the film to underscore the drama) and though you sometimes think the whole ship is going to go over the edge artistically...it never does.
		The Life Aquatic of with Steve Zissou opens with a viewing of the title character's latest documentary in which his best friend Esteban is devoured by a Jaguar Shark.
		While all the humans are flesh and blood, most of the aquatic life is animated and animated in quite bright, vivid colors thereby giving the film a magical realistic, surreal quality.
	www.amazon.com /Life-Aquatic-Steve-Zissou-Collection/dp/B00005JNLQ (2467 words)

	Reviews: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Christianity Today Movies
		Life is proving more difficult to "direct" than the movies he makes with his crew.
		But their cameras don't pick up the deeper current of drama running through Zissou's life: the disintegration of his marriage, the jealousy his nemesis provokes, and the regret and dismay he experiences when a volunteer on his crew announces that he may be Zissou's son.
		Brett McCracken (Relevant) says, "The Life Aquatic is the most ambitious film yet from director Wes Anderson—more visually rich, talent-full, expensive (there are explosions and pirate attacks!) than any of his previous films.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/thelifeaquatic.html (2274 words)

	Review: The Life Aquatic
		Unfortunately, in an attempt to pander to the box office, or awards voters, or both, what Scorsese has created is more in line with the "he can fly!" childlike wonderment of his colleague, than what could have been a crowning achievement in a career laden with wise guys and schemers.
		The film covers the earliest part of Hughes' life, from his Hollywood adventures in the 20s until just after WWII and his somewhat triumphant piloting of the Spruce Goose in 1947.
		It is unfortunate that the man who pioneered commercial aviation, and who donated what would become billions of dollars for medical research will be remembered by Hollywood as a rogue pilot and skirt-chasing failed director whose primary accomplishments would seem to be bagging both Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardener.
	movieline.standard8media.com /reviews/lifeaquatic.shtml (321 words)

	The Movie Addict :: Reviews :: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
		Similarly, Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” seems to have misled many filmgoers into perceiving it is a silly slapstick comedy.
		In “The Life Aquatic” Murray plays the titular Steve Zissou (pronounced "Ziz-so"), world famous oceanographer and failing documentary film maker (whose last hit, we are told, was nine years ago).
		Overall, while not a flawless film, "The Life Aquatic" is a very mature work, and a nice addition to Anderson’s oeuvre.
	www.themovieaddict.com /reviews/life_aquatic.html (692 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Listing at Box Office Prophets
		Anderson co-wrote The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou with the little-known Noah Baumbach, but Wilson will still be on hand as the film's co-star.
		Loosely based on the life of Jacques Cousteau, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou will be a combination of live action and stop-motion animation.
		Insiders already have The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou as a strong contender for awards consideration.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1062 (665 words)

	MCN: The Life Aquatic
		It might be trompe l'oeil, a tricked-up rendition of a pencil that's been drawn into the indentation of a pencil well in a kid's lap desk.
		It could be either, or both, it's at the top of a key frame in a childhood flashback scene in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, a pencil stenciled with the stars of night, white and precise and beautiful along its length.
		There's sort of a plot to The Life Aquatic, but there's no urgency, only a vaudeville succession of murmured oddball bits, played mostly in widescreen frames built around the production design rather than the characters.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/2004/life_aquatic.html (880 words)

	Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004): Reviews
		Nobody could leave The Life Aquatic without the impression of having nearly drowned in some secret and melancholy game.
		The more technically proficient Anderson gets as a filmmaker, the more emotionally barren his movies become, till at last The Life Aquatic drowns in a sea of self-indulgent touches that delight the filmmaker but distance the filmgoer who wants to love the director and his characters but just can't, not anymore.
		Aquatic is never boring (with that cast, how could it be?), but the story never shakes the feeling that they're making it all up as they go along.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/lifeaquaticwithstevezissou (1563 words)

	Aquatic Life Forms, Inc.- Tropical Fish
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		Aquatic Life Forms, Inc. carries a full line of freshwater fish, invertebrates, and amphibians, specializing in South American and African Cichlids.
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	www.aquaticlifeforms.com (340 words)

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		IMDb > The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
		With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife (Huston), a journalist (Blanchett), and a man who may or may not be his son (Wilson).
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	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		For creature design in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, director Wes Anderson had the interesting idea of taking something you know, then adding one strong new element to it: golden barracuda; sugar crabs; jaguar shark.
		In the case of the Crayon Pony fish, I went for a slight variation from reality in anatomical design, but–as you see in my sketch–used actual crayon colors that Wes picked for the body.
		In bringing the creature to life, we gave it a carefully and beautifully animated horse-like mane with some equine head motions while having it look like it was floating in water.
	www.movienet.com /lifeaquatic.html (207 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		The majority of the film deals with Team Zissou obtaining the funding for the expedition, and the expedition itself, which quickly turns into a new expedition altogether when pirates attack the ship and the ban stooge (Bud Cort) is taken hostage.
		Some of the marine life -- the seahorses and the fluorescent pink groupers -- are beautiful and completely fake looking at the same time.
		"The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" is flawless filmmaking, from beginning to end, and really makes it known that Wes Anderson is a force with which to be reckoned...and it certainly appears as if he is here to stay.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/lifeaquatic.html (898 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou movie review, In Film Australia
		Consistent with the whimsical personalities of his three previous films, Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou is an extremely colourful and subtly eccentric oddball adventure with a funky tone and a top notch cast.
		The Life Aquatic's slippery story arc, not especially plot driven, follows three main tangents: Zissou, with the aid of a sceptical journalist (Cate Blanchett) wants to reignite his career; he's also chasing a gargantuan sized jaguar shark and coming to terms with fatherhood, having just recently learned of the existence of his son (Owen Wilson).
		The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou is film for lovers of quirky movies and oddball movies, and of films that refuse to follow rigid and discernible logic and formulas.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/lifeaquatic.htm (576 words)

	THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) - SPECIAL EDITION TWO-DISC SET DVD
		The problem isn't that The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is startlingly bloody, but that in scenes like the wounding of one of Steve's pointedly unpaid interns, Anderson waffles.
		Anderson foams the ocean with crimson in bookend scenes, going so far as to coyly streak the fourth wall in a reminder that for as detached as the characters are from one another, we remain as the audience the most distanced and manipulated participant.
		His music is the spine of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and the heart, too, locating that pregnant moment in time when "Ziggy Stardust" made a lot of sense as an anthem for passionate disaffection, dancing around understanding and being misunderstood and losing and finding your soul.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/lifeaquatic.htm (2100 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Wes Anderson,Seymour ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While Wes Anderson's particular and unique visual style is abundant throughout The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, his skills as a screenwriter have abandoned him.
		At best, The Life Aquatic shows that Anderson is a gifted enough image maker to keep most viewers looking at his film even if they have no emotional investment in the characters.
		The Life Aquatic has many flashes of brilliance, from its amazing detailed sets, its animation of sealife, to some of its witty interactions between the weird characters...
	www.amazon.ca /Life-Aquatic-Steve-Zissou-Collection/dp/B00005JNLQ (1179 words)

	Life Aquatic Studio Sessions - Seu Jorge, Music Downloads - Online
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		Review: Raised in the slums of Rio, Brazil, singer/songwriter Seu Jorge used his formidable talent and undeniable charm to great effect in director Wes Anderson's seafaring comedy the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as a guitar strumming deckhand.
		Jorge possesses a voice that exudes the same regional comfort as fellow countrymen Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso, and his warm and loose guitar playing matches his timbre, resulting in a batch of covers that retain the original framing of the Bowie classics, while injecting a sunny island sweetness into their very core.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/787/Seu-Jorge/Life-Aquatic-Studio-Sessions/500000000000019990982.html (238 words)

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