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	"The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" - Salon.com
		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.
		Zissou vows revenge on the shark, but he has other problems as well: A young pilot named Ned (Owen Wilson) shows up on the scene, claiming to be Zissou's son, the product of a long-ago liaison.
		And Zissou's dismissive, blasé wife, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston), whom many believe to be the real brains of his operation, may have run back to her former husband, Zissou's chief rival in the undersea-exploration biz, spoiled rich guy Alistair Hennessy (Jeff Goldblum).
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2004/12/10/life_aquatic/index.html (949 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		Zissou spends a good deal of time trying to come to terms with his long lost son, Ned (Owen Wilson), and, like Tenenbaum, trying to make something of a reconciliation.
		The Life Aquatic’s comparison to The Royal Tenenbaums is perhaps best summed up with an early scene which featured Zissou, after he had discovered the appearance of his son and we walks and smokes to a crescendoing “Life on Mars” by Bowie.
		Steve Zissou is an oceanographer who creates a documentary of sorts about his explorations.
	www.filmnote.com /Film/L/LifeAquatic.htm (566 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		In the film world, Zissou's old-fashioned methods are catching up with him, and he must beg for funding, but at the last minute, he receives help from Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), a pilot who just may be his son.
		Zissou also swipes equipment from his smarmy rival, Alistair (Jeff Goldblum), who once was involved with Zissou's wife, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston), who wants little to do with her husband.
		Add in the fantastic digital sea creatures, the phony-baloney oceanographer-speak and Zissou's showy way of outfitting and training his team (they run on the beach with pistols strapped to their baby-blue uniforms, topped by red knit caps), and it's clear that Anderson is not expecting us to take any of this seriously.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1224aquatic24.html (684 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Steve Zissou is a world famous oceanographer and explorer whose career, marriage and life are falling apart.
		Zissou’s crew is equally as colorful from the member who sings David Bowie songs in Portuguese to William Dafoe’s truly hysterical turn as Klaus who is more than a little possessive of Zissou’s attention.
		Zissou, a role Anderson wrote specifically for Murray, is sardonic and emotionally standoffish while struggling to figure out how to deal with his hitherto unknown son.
	www.theblob.info /Reviews/LifeAquatic.htm (477 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
		With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
		The film follows Steve Zissou (Murray), a formerly glorious oceanographer whose latest documentary, which is about his closest friend and colleague, Esteban, being eaten by a "Jaguar Shark", receives a less-than-glorious reception.
		Steve then announces he plans to set out on a voyage to film part two of his documentary, which will follow him and his crew as they attempt to track down the alleged "Jaguar Shark".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0362270 (673 words)

	THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
		Zissou is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker who has garnered serious acclaim for his films of undersea exploration and life.
		The problem with Zissou is that, well, he’s just not a really great filmmaker and he's so self-absorbed in his own fame and image that he is incapable of acknowledging the fact that his latest string of films are uneventful flops.
		Zissou is instantly smitten with the younger journalist, despite the fact that she asks probing questions that reveal his has-been status as a filmmaker.
	craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/life_aquatic_with_steve_zissou.htm (1567 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 With Steve Zissou
		For Steve Zissou has fallen on hard times, his last few documentaries were met with tepid response, and to make things worse, he loses Esteban, his friend and mentor during a diving expedition.
		Zissou rises to the surface in a near-panic and says that Esteban was eaten by a rare, unseen predator known as a Jaguar Shark.
		The problem was that Zissou never got any footage of the attack, and when he debuts his new documentary at a film festival in Italy, many viewers doubt the existence of the Jaguar Shark.
	www.mcfergesondvd.com /steve.htm (874 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		It seems to be the tail end of a declining career for marine researcher and filmmaker Steve Zissou and the crew of the Belafonte.
		The Life Aquatic derives its underlying tone from a bittersweet sense of the odd - treating extraordinary occurrences with an odd mix of understated wonderment and blasé acceptance.
		When the Zissou crew is being tied up and threatened, the film switches into the mode of a legitimate thriller, and we fear for the lives of our main characters, as we do in many incidents throughout the movie.
	www.fakes.net /lifeaquatic.htm (1260 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		Steve Zissou (Billy Murray) is an oceanographer who roams the seas making bad underwater documentaries with his Team Zissou.
		A "jaguar shark" eats Steve's best friend, Esteban; he vows to track down the beast and kill it (but this is no modern day Ahab versus Moby Dick story).
		Since Team Zissou is lacking in the funding department, he steals most of his high-tech equipment from his nemesis, Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum).
	www.themoviechicks.com /fall2004/mcrlifeaquatic.html (425 words)

	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		Director/co-writer Wes Anderson's (The Royal Tenenbaums) new comedy stars Bill Murray as eccentric oceanographer Steve Zissou, who finds himself in troubled waters when he attempts to track down the mysterious "jaguar shark" that ate his partner while filming a documentary of their latest adventure.
		Zissou must also contend with a journalist (Cate Blanchett) assigned to write his profile, and a new member of his team who may be his long-lost son (Owen Wilson).
		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)

	DVD REVIEW: "THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU"
		The Jacques Cousteau-like Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) stands before a chart to indicate the coming voyage, introduces each red-wool-capped member of Team Zissou by age, personality traits, and nationality, and then explains each step of the adventure as it happens.
		Steve, anachronistic and literally ungrounded, means to do the manly thing, even if he's unsure what that means.
		Zissou, the billionaire chain-smoker Eleanor (Anjelica Huston), who wonders why he "believes" in this boy: "Because he looks up to me," admits Steve, and even as his guard seems down, his performance is predictable.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2004/the_life_aquatic_with_steve_zissou.html (1227 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Zissou, in certain aspects, could be a brother to the characters that Murray played in Lost in Translation and, especially, Anderson's Rushmore—another middle-aged man feeling lost and confronting a future of diminished dreams.
		Zissou's journey is less a hunt for a shark than a road trip into the soul, as this self-absorbed, egotistical blowhard learns to open up his heart.
		Along with Steve's usual crew, there are a few new folks along, including a pregnant reporter (Cate Blanchett), who may not be writing as puffy a piece about the journey as Steve would like; and a courtly young airline pilot (Owen Wilson), who may be Steve's son.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=119692 (2057 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		If Anderson's films could always find mainstream sensibility before, The Life Aquatic may be his first to find the always adoring gaze by his fans who exist in worlds like his but a cold shoulder from those who only like to shortly visit.
		Zissou tries to find inspiration to continue his work by setting out to slay the infamous jaguar shark that took his friend and taking in newcomer Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson), who may be Zissou's long lost heir.
		Zissou and his cast never seem to be able to shake the desolate dread to make the same growing, grand emotional connections in his previous mentor/protégé teams of his previous films.
	web.itctel.com /~kastenm/reviews/lifeaquatic.htm (808 words)

	The Rushmore Academy • Films • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		Murray's Steve Zissou is a flawed, solipsistic patriarch, though his defining emotion is not intemperate anger but a vague, wistful tristesse.
		Zissou is a famous ocean explorer whose undersea adventures have less to do with scientific research than with pop-culture branding.
		He is a child's fantasy of adulthood brought to life, and at the same time an embodiment of the longing for a return to childhood that colors so much of grown-up life.
	www.rushmoreacademy.com /academy/films/lifeaquatic (788 words)

	THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
		Zissou is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker who has garnered serious acclaim for his films of undersea exploration and life.
		The problem with Zissou is that, well, he’s just not a really great filmmaker and he's so self-absorbed in his own fame and image that he is incapable of acknowledging the fact that his latest string of films are uneventful flops.
		Zissou is instantly smitten with the younger journalist, despite the fact that she asks probing questions that reveal his has-been status as a filmmaker.
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/life_aquatic_with_steve_zissou.htm (1618 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
		Zissou is, we learn, the auteur of a series of increasingly uneventful undersea documentaries, in which the momentum is sliding down a graph that will intersect in the foreseeable future with a dead standstill.
		Zissou himself seems to be in the later stages of entropy and may become one of those Oliver Sacks people who just sit there on the stairs for decades, looking at you.
		Steve Zissou seems melancholy, as if simultaneously depressed that life is passing him by, and that it is taking so long to do it.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041223/REVIEWS/41201010/1023 (786 words)

	Reviews: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Christianity Today Movies
		But Zissou's audience is becoming suspicious that some aspects of his video chronicles are "faked." When his latest installment premieres, documenting the death of his loyal sidekick Esteban (Anderson standby Seymour Cassell) in the jaws of the rare and dangerous Jaguar Shark, they're skeptical.
		Zissou is even generous to his competitor, Hennessey, who has a bigger boat, better financing, and a crew of young men who look like they just walked out of an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue.
		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.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/thelifeaquatic.html (2272 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
		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.
		The evidence onscreen shows that Steve Zissou is a terrible filmmaker, the Ed Wood of documentaries, which leads one to wonder how he ever found success in the first place.
		As Ned Plimpton, a go-with-the-flow kind of guy who abruptly walks into Steve's life with the suspicion that he may be his son, Owen Wilson is saddled with an equally uninteresting role.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/l/04_lifeaquatic.htm (847 words)

	Film Review - THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Here is what Glenn Kenny said in a capsule review of “Life Aquatic” (Premiere magazine, Dec. 2004/January 2005): “There are those who hold that Anderson is some kind of snooty postmodern ironist; I find his pictures full of actual emotion, albeit emotion modulated by a wry sometimes rueful whimsy.
		Zissou documents every moment of his life and he is very involved in filmmaking.
		Zissou decides he might be interested in the journalist even though he is too old for her and she favors his “son.” Eleanor doesn’t want to kill the shark so she deserts him for the island retreat of her possibly bi-sexual ex-husband, Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum), a rich oceanographer with a Nazi-youth staff.
	www.filmsinreview.com /FilmReviews/NowShowing/the_life_aquatic.htm (784 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		The Popkorn Junkie :: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
		Steve then declares that he will set out to find the shark that devoured his closest companion, stating 'revenge' as the scientific purpose of the mission.
		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.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/lifeaquatic.html (898 words)

	Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		Steve himself is a selfish, far from honest, even rather unpleasant individual, but his eccentricities, his unbelieveableness as an undersea explorer, his atrocious parenting skills, and his desire to kill the possibly imaginary jaguar shark he claims devoured his partner make him enjoyable to watch.
		In various scenes, Steve and his followers burglarize Alistair's research station, are attacked by Filipino pirates, launch a raid on the hideout of those persons, venture into the depths of the ocean on a yellow submarine, and so on and so on.
		Other incidents, such as Ned's attempts to form an emotional bond with Steve, the latter's reluctance to do so, and the two men's competition for Jane's affections, even though she is clearly interested in Ned and is not at all attracted to Steve, are, unfortunately, somewhat forced and do slow the film down.
	www.movierapture.com /lifeaquaticwithstevezissou.htm (564 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		The Life Aquatic stars Bill Murray as Steve Zissou, a famour oceanougrapher and explorer who hasn't produced anything significant in almost 10 years.
		Zissou's latest mission is to hunt down and kill the rare shark, nicknamed the Jaguar Shark, that killed his head diver and best friend.
		Zissou brings his possible son and news reporter Jane Winslett-Richardson (Cate Blanchett) along for the ride along with his usual crew.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~dnb4/life.html (134 words)

	The Aisle Seat - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		Steve Zissou was previously at the top of his game but recently has been just coasting.
		When we first meet him, the joy in his life is essentially gone; everything is falling to pieces in front of him.
		The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is rated R for language, some drug use, violence and partial nudity.
	www.geocities.com /gamut_mag/zissou.htm (965 words)

	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson, 2004)
		The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson, 2004)
		Zissou falls flat on his back and when cutting the scene is mentioned, he replies "We're giving them the reality this time." This is a moment where
		Clearly the work of an auteur, The Life Aquatic isn't Wes Anderson's finest hour, but it is, now more than ever, obvious that he is one of the most important and interesting filmmakers working today.
	www.cinematicreflections.com /TheLifeAquatic.html (879 words)

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