Moonrise Kingdom

Beginning at the end, as the closing credits rolled, I turned to hubby and asked,  "Did you like it?"  "Yea, I did.  I thought it was..." "Enchanting?"  "Yea, enchanting."

If you like a camera the way Wes Anderson does, if you like quirky characters, bizarre plot twists, and a wink that says, "Don't take this too soberly," this film is for you.  Every scene is treated as an artist's palette.  Anderson uses color schemes and set design and positively PERFECT scoring to float us through a different time and place.  The strong, supporting cast of Anderson usual suspects along with a few casting surprises - Francis McDormand, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis (as a nerd!), Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Bob Balaban - and a cast of hundreds of boy scouts - do nothing to upstage two talented adolescents, Kara Heyward and Jared Gilman.

Won't tell you much more, except this:  to say this is a Lord of the Flies meets Blue Lagoon meets The Royal Tannebaums meets Rushmore would be unfair.  It is its own charming, engaging, entertaining, loving nod to an age of innocence, not just chronologically, but historically (c.1963).

I really liked this movie!  It's different.