In Wes Anderson's latest, The Darjeeling Ltd, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwarzman and Owen Wilson play three estranged brothers who go on a bonding trip across India following the death of their father.

A journey film co-scripted by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola and actor in the film Jason Schwarzman, it starts aboard a train called The Darjeeling Ltd. with unexpected surprises (think The Life Aquatic and The Royal Tenenbaums).

Showing with the film is a short prologue entitled Part 1/Hotel Chevalier co-starring Nathalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman.

The Darjeeling Ltd opens out most confidently when the three brothers escape from the confines of the train about midway through the film. Up until it relies on unusual comic moments and plays on the accessible comedy about three brothers getting to know each other.

There are some nice touches - they go in search of their mother who really has little interest in seeing them. India is a wonderful country and plays its part in making the film more entertaining in the way that Japan did in Lost In Translation. There's a lovely scene towards the end when in a stylistic way you see all the characters that have been in the film, as if they were in separate carriages on the train, and Anderson introduces a more serious aspect to the comedy when the brothers get involved in a real-life drama involving young indian children in trouble near a village.

On the plus side, Schwartzman, Brody and Wilson make a good job of being brothers with their own individual traits. On the minus, the story seems fairly thin when you think about it afterwards and the prologue involving Nathalie Portman adds little to the story and merely seems pretentious.

The Darjeeling Ltd will satisfy fans of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic I would suspect, but fans of Wes Anderson might also feel that the director hasn't really tested himself. This is a likeable comedy for sure, but it hasn't got a lot of substance at the heart of it.