"Rushmore" is easily one of my favorite movies, but I completely understand how some don't get the offbeat quirkiness of Wes Anderson. "Bottle Rocket" is great, too, but my stomach-turning reaction to Owen Wilson almost made me not want to watch it. Luckily, he is early in his career and far from acting his own caricature.
"The Royal Tenenbaums" is good, but a little harder to digest. This is only my take on it, but I believe Wes Anderson used disjointed pacing and awkward cuts in the first half of the movie to depict the family growing apart from each other, each lost in his/her own pursuit. In the second half, the film seems to find its groove, and I think it's edited on purpose this way to subconsciously clue the audience in on the family coming back together and gelling as a singular unit. The pace picks up and a rhythm develops, while the first half left my antsy and shifting in my seat.
