‘Asteroid City’ Review: Scarlett Johansson Leads Stacked Ensemble That Gets Marooned in Cloying Wes Anderson Whimsy

'With apologies to Guns N’ Roses: Don’t take me down to the AsteroidCity / Where the tropes are tired and the gags ain’t witty / Make it stop (Oh, won’t you please make it stop)'

/ Where the tropes are tired and the gags ain’t witty / Make it stop .hater.

I get that he’s the most parody-able of contemporary American directors, with his taste for painstakingly designed retro-theatrical artifice, for boxes within narrative boxes, for framing and camera movement choices identifiable from a mile away, characters that drip drolleries and plots that plunge fearlessly into manneristic preciousness. But when all the elements click into place, Anderson’s manicured worlds can be enchanting places to visit.

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