I wish I'd seen it with a crowd. I'm still not convinced these characters alone are built for sustaining a feature film. At least not without more inspired writing.

I needed more "do you know how hard it is for a male duck to lay eggs?" moments, or choices like static Katamari Damacy-style Farmer Jim. We live in a post-Animaniacs, post-Gremlins 2 world. It doesn't betray the Looney Tunes to get weird with it.

That said, lovely cel animation. I want more of these made for theaters. Just...better.

Does Wes Anderson experience modern day newspaper stories through this whimsical a lens? Or perhaps that's why these last few films of his caricature the Cold War era: much easier to make a tidy cartoon of past farces than our unfolding present.

Anyway, there's an actually compelling relationship at the core, in addition to it being delightful in its zaniness. Myself, I feel perfectly safe saying this is among my favorite Anderson films.

Irrelevant to the film (which is fine, had trouble not rooting for the union saboteurs), but there's a member of the cast named Frederick Vroom. Is this an onomatopoeia with origins as a surname?!

Time heist good, Everybody-Fight...fine? I'm afraid any future "MCU crossover event" will only look like the latter, because they haven't exactly been building the goodwill needed to pull off anything like the good parts of this film.

I ed Yvette Nicole Brown, but not that Ken Jeong is a security guard in one scene. They should've sprinkled the rest of the Community cast in there.

Howard Stark is out here calling people beatniks in the 70s, I like the idea that he is decades behind on culture.

When it's no longer a Theatrical Event being seen for the first time, it loses a lot of its luster. But then again, it's weird that this works at all.

There's a ing resemblance to Lewis Pullman so I couldn't stop imagining Chris Fleming crushing in the Bob role. No offense to Pullman, he was great.

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"Sick piñata! Is that beer smoking weed?"

"That's one of the coolest ways I've ever busted!"

Lovably dumb. I went to high school with that guy. Literally.

Did they rob the bank of ammunition? That shootout was beyond ridiculous.

Otherwise the perfect cat-and-mouse crime movie.

Still perfect, still brimming with the best vibes. Still the best film of 2025.

I tried playing the first game, but couldn't get into it. "Adolescent love triangle" in principle is more compelling than the "child trying to save dead mom" plot from the game, but this knock-off Ghibli doesn't work.