“In my ideal cinémathèque, ‘The Life Aquatic’ would play on a permanent double bill with ‘The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.’ Mr. Anderson and Stephen Hillenburg, Mr. Squarepants’s creator, share not only a taste for nautical nonsense, but also a willingness to carry the banner of unfettered imaginative silliness into battle against the tyranny of maturity.” - A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
