Review: WesAnderson's stylized, star-stuffed comedy AsteroidCity is big on both spectacle and dramatic inertia, film critic Dann Gire says
"Asteroid City" -- ★ ★ ½ "Asteroid City"? A fun, nostalgically retro place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there for a full 104 minutes.
But would it be cinematic sacrilege to suggest"Asteroid City" might work better as a film short rather than a full feature? Clearly Anderson is more interested in world-building than in building a reinforced dramatic structure necessary to support a feature-length film. A short solves that problem by engaging us with Anderson's visual wit and fascination with the storytelling process, while avoiding the dramatic inertia that eventually sets in.
In quick order, Augie's grumpy father-in-law Stanley Zak arrives to help, full of criticism against Augie, and packing a revolver in his waistband. Just because. Later, Augie's supersmart son Woodrow and Midge's daughter Dinah also get wounded by Cupid's arrows.
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