Poison Reviews

Since I really loved ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, of course, I was eager to see the other shorts delivered recently by Wes Anderson for Netflix. Indeed, if you are a fan of Wes Anderson’s work, it will be quite a year to remember as the indie master will release no less than 5 movies (1 full-length feature and 4 shorts). Anyway, it was once again quite a delight, that’s for sure. Even if I have never been a fan of Roald Dahl’s books film adaptations, I really did love ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ which is, as far as I’m concerned, Anderson’s best movie so far. Well, the famous writer and the indie film director seemed to be once again a match made in heaven. Indeed, it was visually quite reminiscent to ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’ but it wasn’t an issue, in the contrary. The tone was also once again quite marvelous. The only thing which did differentiate this movie from the other short from Wes Anderson was that all the actors were playing only one character this time around (they were only 5 characters involved though) which was the only artistical choice I didn’t really care for in ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’ (it wasn’t a big deal though). However, even though it was definitely quite fun and entertaining, the story was slightly too basic though and the fact that the outcome was so predictable probably didn’t help. Anyway, I can’t wait to see the other 2 shorts that Anderson has cooked up for Netflix. To conclude, I really enjoyed the damned thing and I think it’s definitely worth a look, especially if you are a fan of Wes Anderson or Roald Dahl.