Well said. The parents' concerns in the film are well-founded, but that doesn't mean the kids are doing something perverted or even unusual. They're just clumsily experimenting, like kids do. If you consider it "gross," that's fine, but that's life.

Let's just take it down a notch here with the vitriol. Whether you like the film or not, Moonrise Kingdom had a perfectly coherent, well-designed plot. And it had a whole lot of stuff going on, in terms of character, theme, humor, sentiment, etc., other than the one (rather innocent, PG-13 level) scene that all the…

Max Fischer (Rushmore) and Sam Schakusky (Moonrise Kingdom) certainly aren't insulated by "class and privilege." The brothers in Darjeeling are insulated, as are the suburbanite protagonists in Bottle Rocket, but that's part of the point of both films, as I read them. Tenenbaums and Zissou are just fanciful stories…

I don't recall any "dull white barber" character in Coming to America. Or am I forgetting something? There was Murphy's old Jewish guy, but he was nothing like Willis's character here.

Yes, budding youthful sexuality must never be portrayed on film, except via hand puppets.

Looks like it's on location from Moonrise Kingdom.

There was a physical resemblance, but judging from that appearance, their comic sensibilities are totally different.

It's just a silly riff on a silly movie that everyone remembers. Why would it need to be "timely and relevant"?

So many great character touches in that scene. I don't think Tenenbaums is Wes's best movie necessarily, but the climactic tracking shot might be his best moment as a filmmaker.

In the last paragraph, the parenthesis opens but never closes. Which means the comments, including this one, are ARE ALL IN PARENTHESES.

Ever heard of "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"? She's Alice.

Nobody has topped the train sequence at the end of the Marxes' "Go West" or the entirety of Keaton's "The General."

RIP Kumar.

"Come on everybody, let's keep up the intensity."

Yeah, I was going to say the same. What happened to that copy editor job they were advertising? That sentence reminds me of Chuck Connors in Airplane II:

Don't think she's in any of those.

Yeah, those two performances are interesting because they feel more like vintage Bogart roles to me, and yet Grant is every bit as good as Bogey would have been.

Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride…

Thanks for this. Rhythm of the Saints is my favorite Paul Simon album, but I'd never heard this one before.

We'll see how essential, since I think he's left the show now. I've been rewatching the first season of Community in syndication, and while he was possibly the least funny of the ensemble, he was much funnier than he had been in a long time.