Been on my list since it came out and was not what I expected. Took 15 to 20 minutes to recalibrate. But I did. Really good. If I closed my eyes, the audio and dialogue reminded me of a Wes Anderson project (close your eyes .. the visuals are nothing like Wes. Bale was great .. at time channeling Peter Falk’s ‘Columbo’ … or is that just me?

It just popped up as a ‘why not watch’ kind of alert … I had. Very good.

I resisted watching this for a while …  asked on the trailers … It was all right … but the cheesy trailers are a clue.

It was better than the first in the series! Maybe I’m just not the target audience.

Totally unexpected delight.

Watched on Wednesday December 21, 2022.

4 stars .. and I’m not even a big fan of the man!

It’s a perennial that is regularly revisited.

Wes Anderson has such a distinctive style it’s amazing how they are so different. Love them all.

To be fair, the ‘other viewer’ gave it 3 stars - but whichever way you look at it - dud.

Count me in the camps of

- ‘definitely not a Will Ferrell fan’
- ‘definitely a massive Ryan Reynolds fan’

I didn’t know the director, so looked up his prior work. Now I understand.