Social media's favourite film director to imitate, parody and desecrate must be getting fed up. One can imagine he might have been initially touched by the 'accidentally Wes Anderson' trend on Instagram, but by the time we reached TikTok videos and AI-generated work claiming to be in his style, he must have started wondering if there's a way he can prohibit people from using his name.
But like many similar parodies, any resemblance to the work of the American filmmaker is reduced to the use of certain actors, saturated colours and a lot of listless staring at the camera, as if that's what makes Anderson's style. The outfits are garish and the shots feel completely vacant. The resemblance to The Simpsons is also fairly tenuous.generations before. Early experiments were amusing – impressive even, since they demonstrated a powerful new technology.