The Life Aquatic

I recently watched another Wes Anderson film and because I own a media blog I thought I might as well write about it.
The film is based around Bill Murray playing a character called Steve Zissou. Steve makes some form of documentary out at sea. The point of why they make movies is never really mentioned and is therefore quite vague.
Throughout the film Steve Zissou hunts down a large shark that killed his friend called 'The Jaguar Shark'.
A young reporter joins the Zissou team (Which is made up of several people dressed in red hats and blue suits) so she can document Zissou's life.
Owen Wilson plays Ned, who is Steve's potential son, but it is never specified whether or not he really is Zissou's own child.
As with most of Wes Anderson's films the constant small quirky details add a lot of humour and effect. The film follows the 180 degree rule by creating the entire set in one piece. This means that when a character moves through the boat, the camera can follow them walking up stairs and through doors, in one continuos shot. This is amazing to watch and every time a scene like this takes place it becomes very effective on the audience.
At one scene in the film Ned and Zissou are talking and Steve mentions that if Ned was in fact his real son he would of called him Kingsley. Zissou then keeps mentioning to Ned about the idea of changing his name to Kingsley Zissou. A little while later in the film a small card is pushed under Neds door, we then see a point of view camera shot as Ned looks at the card. It is informing Ned that he has had his name changed to 'Kingsley (Ned) Zissou'. Not only is the build up executed brilliantly, it also a classic style of Wes Anderson, to add up small detail to create a quirky joke. This is shown in almost all of his films. For example, in the film Rushmore (1998) the main character, Max, has two small badges, one for perfect attendance and the other for punctuality. After moving schools he awkwardly allows a friend to choose a badge. The way in which the scene is executed makes the situation more realistic and entertaining.
Throughout the film Zissou seems to be very different from Ned's memories of watching him in earlier life, as time goes on Zissou slowly changes from being a slightly arrogant and jealous, to becoming true, pure and happy. This is shown at the end of the film (after Ned has died in a helicopter crash) when Zissou gives Ned's team zissou ring to a small boy. The credits then roll and the Zissou team walk nostalgically onto their boat (which is partially destroyed from a pirate attack and because it is quite tacky and old anyway).
So many scenes in the film involve small and funny detail, but it is hard to describe them to an audience who may not have watched the film. For me to easily explain why this film was amazing it would take every human in the world to first watch it with me, and then for them to all listen to me perform a presentation on it.
I have posted a link to the film below and hope that out of the zero people who read this blog, that at least one of you decides to watch it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/