Moonrise Kingdom
Dir: Wes Anderson
2012
****
Moonrise Kingdom represents the returning to form for Wes Anderson in my opinion. I say returning rather than return because Moonrise is no where near as good as he can be, Mr. Fox aside, Moonrise is as good as The Royal Tenenbaums in story, that is, it is nice but a little overrated. I really like it but it's nothing special, it's the performances that really count. Here we have a big cast as usual but none of the big names really make a huge impact, this is left to the brilliant young talents of Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward and they are the ones that make Moonrise a great film. It's directed beautifully and it has a nice story but it is Anderson himself that has raised the expectedness of his films, I can only compare this film to his catalog of films and rate it accordingly. As always though, it looks beautiful.