Not so "Limited"

I like Wes Anderson's movies ("Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums") but haven't really been entranced by them, and the last one, "The Life Aquatic," was a mess. Happily, his new one, "The Darjeeling Limited," now playing at the Claremont Laemmle, is pretty good stuff and one of the better movies I've seen in 2007.

To get in the spirit of the movie, which is set in India, my friends and I first ate at the nearby Delhi Palace Expresss. The buffet fare was only so-so, but with mango lassi and chicken tikka masala still perfuming our breath, we were primed for "Darjeeling."

It's probably Anderson's funniest movie to date, and his most colorful, literally. The inclusion of three melancholy songs by the Kinks, my favorite band, certainly didn't hurt its standing with me. Watching Adrien Brody run for the train in the beginning in slow motion will make you want to run in slow motion too.