Review 1:
"[Mr. Murray's] performance is a triumph of comic minimalism....[He] turns tiny gestures and sly, off-beat line readings into a deadpan tour-de-force, at once utterly ridiculous and curiously touching."
Source: New York Times
p.E1 12/10/2004
Review 2:
"Anderson holds steady to the delicate emotions that run beneath this stormy comedy of betrayal, death and forgiveness....[Wilson gives] a sincerely affecting performance."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.171 12/30/2004
Review 3:
"THE LIFE AQUATIC is a micschievous and melancholy thing of wonder....It's daring, different and memorable."
Source: Uncut
p.128 03/01/2005
Review 4:
Ranked #12 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "Wes Anderson here creates a totally bonkers but entirely charming comedy..."
Source: Uncut
p.82-83 01/01/2006
Review 5:
"An exquisitely evocative movie that elevates rueful melancholia to a superpower..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.E1 12/10/2004
Review 6:
"Many of the atmospheric details are marvelous..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.55-6 12/17/2004
Review 7:
"A movie that's a celebration of both the sea and a certain brand of imaginative exuberance..."
Source: Premiere
p.51 02/01/2005
Review 8:
"Bill Murray plays the Cousteau-like hero, an oceanographer-documentarian who's at once funny, screwy, childish, gallant and rueful, or downright depressed."
Source: Wall Street Journal
11/13/2009