The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

A perfectly entertaining deadpan movie about midlife adventurers lost in their own mediocre world in an effort to recapture the glory days. The movie is absolutely charming in its mediocrity. No peaks, no super antics, pretty low-tech all the way around. The boat is moving towards being as decrepit as the characters who are trying to live one more high adventure. Caroline and I left the theater chuckling about how human and average the whole thing was but how it tickled us and had a feel-good nature about it.

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