{"id":10132,"date":"2014-03-23T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2014-03-23T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T02:14:07","slug":"the-grand-budapest-hotel-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2014\/03\/23\/the-grand-budapest-hotel-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Budapest Hotel–Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3.5<\/p>\n

\n\"The<\/a>The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/em> (IMDB<\/a>) is a new movie by Wes Anderson, and thus is both rather funny and rather strange. It reminds me a bit of the old Pink Panther<\/em> movies–the original funny ones starring Peter Sellers (IMDB<\/a>, IMDB<\/a>, IMDB<\/a>, IMDB<\/a> and IMDB<\/a>), not the one starring his corpse (IMDB<\/a>) or any of the endless later imitations. Unfortunately Peter Sellers is dead and while this movie has a very talented cast there is no one who can match his comic genius.\n<\/div>\n

This movie is framed as a nested series of flashbacks. A student in the fictitious Central European Republic of Zubrowka visits the grave of her country’s most famous writer (Tom Wilkinson) and reads his most famous book, The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The writer tells how in the late 1960s as a young man (played by Jude Law) he stayed at a run-down but once-magnificent hotel. There he encountered the mysterious owner (F. Murray Abraham) who agreed to tell him his story.
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\nIn 1932 as a young man (Tony Revolori) he obtained employment at the hotel, which was then at the height of its magnificence. He became the protege of the concierge Gustave M. (Ralph Fiennes), a resourceful man of unconventional ethics, but passionately devoted to customer service.<\/p>\n

Gustave’s eccentric pursuits lead them to become involved in a bizarre crime caper and murder mystery. It all takes place in the shadow of grim historical events that bear some resemblance to actual European history.<\/p>\n

Ultimately this didn’t quite click for me. There are many funny scenes but it’s a bit too dark, a bit too weird and not quite funny enough<\/em>. If we could have replaced Ralph Fiennes with Peter Sellers, then we might really have had something.<\/p>\n

The movie is rated R for some bad language and a rather tasteless modernist painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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