To call “The Darjeeling Limited” precious is less a critical judgment than a simple statement of fact, equivalent to saying that the movie is in color, that it’s set in India or that it’s 91 minutes long.
Some would argue that The Darjeeling Limited is a comedy. In a sense, that's true, and Anderson's previous efforts - from Bottle Rocket to The Life Aquatic - have all fallen within the loosely defined boundaries of the genre. However, this film is easily the most serious of Anderson's efforts, and seems more dramatic in both scope and intent. The "comedy," to the extent that it is present, is not the kind that will cause audience members to break out in laughter. It's more of the wry, cutting variety - the sort of thing that goes hand-in-hand with a screenplay that forces a reviewer to search for synonyms of "quirky."
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