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	[quote name="Choson"][quote name="Fussbett"]I didn't laugh out loud at Rushmore or the Tenenbaums -- or even very often at Life Aquatic. But in Life Aquatic, I smiled constantly. Then I frowned for a bit, THEN SMILED AGAIN. Life Aquatic is definitely a comedy, because it's got lots of humour and isn't a drama, but I don't think the decibels of your amusement is a valid rating system since Life Aquatic offers more than jokes.[/quote] I'm saying that every Wes Anderson movie, EXCEPT for the Life Aquatic, I have laughed out loud. I was even primed to laugh out loud at the Life Aquatic, but instead, I smiled, wryly, and thought: a failure. Pretty, with its moments, but a failure. [quote name="Fussbett"]You just didn't like the story. Which is fine. FOR A FAGGOT, or Zsenor Barborito. Nah, I've come to grips with the fact that people have written off the story as incongruous, trite, pandering, pointless, and/or self-agrandizing. Even shallow. The loss is yours. Yours![/quote] The story, or at least the core of it, was fine. Failed hero faces his fears and realizes that he's a hero, after all. There were related themes in his other films, except maybe Bottle Rocket. But I think he slipped over the "cartoon" meter with me and made a movie of gags, and if you're going to make a movie of gags, smiling throughout isn't the certificate of greatness you think it is. I guess we're disagreeing on the success of the story tweaking some latent emotion, which is just so happened to do with you and Ray. It didn't for me, but then, I don't like Jacques Tati movies either. [quote name="Fussbett"]It was the lunacy pockets of Tenenbaums cranked to the highest level, such that it was no longer a punchline but an absurdist backdrop to the whole tale, which in turn frees the rest of the movie to do whatever it wants. The fact that you'd say calling the interns "Interns" and that they "share a glock" were failed jokes blows my mind, this laser narrowing. Zissou has interns?! Like 6 of them?! Zissou can't even keep track of his interns?! Or his glocks?! They need glocks?! Zissou is forcing a glock on Ned?! Via peer pressure?! The script girl knows more about the intern glock then Zissou?! The script girl is topless?! There's a script girl?! It's a constant general atmosphere of funniness, but then you focus on the line "They share a glock", and rate is as "not as funny as a Miguel Caulderon painting". Why don't you just marry the Tenenbaums?[/quote] Wow, sounds great... in theory. Too bad "a general atmosphere of funniness" didn't actually turn into "funny". I mean, what you just described sounds hilarious, and with Bill Murray as the lynchpin of "the general atmosphere of funniness"? Holy shit, I was ready to die of laughter. And then I saw the movie, and... I smiled constantly. Oh wait, that was you. And thanks for boiling down what I wrote about the weaknesses of Life Aquatic into the "Glocks vs. Calderon painting", because really that's all I actually said. I'll stand by it, based on my super empirical method of my own laughter to perfectly judge whether a movie is funny or not.[/quote]