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Yesterday my esteemed colleague Tyler Coates ranked the oeuvre of Wes Anderson in descending order of quality. You can read the post here, but the sequence is as follows: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited. Although he didn’t explicitly state it, he told me IRL that he “would rank Moonrise Kingdom between The Royal Tenenbaums and Fantastic Mr. Fox.”  Although I like Mr. Coates as a person and think he does a stellar job as the Senior Editor of BlackBook, I believe his appraisal fails in several important ways. The first is that it is wrong.
Another Man’s Opinion: Ranking Wes Anderson’s Filmography 

Both of these lists make me ask the question: am I the only person who enjoyed The Darjeeling Limited? I don’t know anyone in real life who actually liked it either, but it’s my second favorite Wes Anderson film after The Royal Tenenbaums, and it’s one of those films I can watch when I’m sick over and over again. (The people who didn’t like Darjeeling didn’t like Tenenbaums either, so I figure they’re the ones that are nuts).

I actually did enjoy The Darjeeling Limited and think it is right behind The Royal Tenenbaums in greatnes. I do not fancy The Fantastic Mr. Fox, maybe I am a poor critique, maybe I’m not