Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson), a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett), and Zissou’s estranged wife (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge, and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure-comedy. But the real star here is production designer Mark Friedberg. Zissou’s boat, the Belafonte, is represented in deliberately non-realistic cutaway fashion – like a doll’s house – so that we are able to peer into every cabin on every level and watch the crew mill about like mice in a laboratory. The film’s nerdish delight in early ’70s technology (Zissou’s island lair is a dead tech time warp) is a delightful running joke in this work–Anderson’s quirkiest and most pleasantly rambling effort.