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STARRING: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller DIRECTOR: Wes Anderson...
...Tenenbaum kids are--or were--child geniuses, adept at playwriting (Paltrow), tennis (Wilson) and the stock market (Stiller). When we meet them, however, they are still overprotected by their mother (Huston) and have aged into various forms of hostile fecklessness. Director and co-writer (with Owen Wilson) Anderson has confessed admiration for J.D. Salinger's Glass family, and The Royal Tenenbaums can be seen as his take, more comic than tragic, on the costs of being smart in a world that resents intelligence as much as it pretends to admire...
...loud and clear on its sixth album. The lyrics are funny but humane, the beats fresh and surprising. The high point comes when Slick Rick, one of rap's best dirty storytellers, weds his sleaze appeal to the group's nerdy humor and stuffs a Ben Stiller movie's worth of innuendo into a 5-min. track. The crackling originality that producer Prince Paul brought to the group's early work is sorely missed, but may they keep rolling on anyhow...
...adult versions of the Tenenbaum children, Stiller, Paltrow and Wilson do fine jobs with their roles. Murray, so dryly funny in Rushmore, is given surprisingly little to do as Margot’s husband Raleigh St. Clair...
Shot on a tight budget, the cast’s willingness to forgo their usual salaries is a testament to their faith in Anderson’s film-making. As Stiller notes, “I would venture to say that we didn’t take as big a pay cut as the Ocean’s Eleven stars because we didn’t get paid as much, but everybody was working for whatever it was just to do the movie.” Stylistically, the cast wears the same clothes throughout, sans Chas’ switch from...