What a great little movie. Why this isn't getting such great reviews amazes me. It's a very simple, sweet stroy of three brothers trying to get over their father's death and their differences on a "spiritual" journey that doubles as a nice travelogue through the countryside of India. The fact that it was all filmed in the subcontinent helps greatly. India is practically a character in the film.

Overall, it's a film about different types of ritual, about healing and about broken people who are trying to find themselves in a land so completely foreign the only thing they have in common is each other.

This is Wes Anderson's best film since Rushmore, IMO. It's also his most grounded in reality and while it still has the quirkiness of his other films, it's not completely out there and he lets the location set the art direction. After two films that went a little overboard, this film feels smaller, more mature and complete. It has the exact right running time, never outstays its welcome and is funny, emotional and dramatic at the same time.

There's one prolonged scene (flashback) I would have like to see different, but otherwise, it's quite enjoyable.