Why do people like this movie?

It is smart and funny. Wes Anderson's films are quirky good.

If you don't believe so, that is fine too.

Smart, funny, loved the characters. Big fan of Wes Anderson's style and tone.

Let's be bad guys.

1. It's actually very very funny
2. Ralph Fiennes is extraordinary
3. It's utterly gorgeous to look at
4. It's intriguing and also wistfully sad
5. It's an amusing cartoonish snapshot of a Europe that doesn't really exist anymore
... I could go on but it's really late

People say they like this movie because they think it was clever and sophisticated, and they want to be viewed the same way by saying they liked it. In a way, it's like when some paintings are valued at a ridiculously inflated price and you think they are crap.

Its a Charming and Beautiful Film.

Because they have different opinions than you?

I was really charmed by it. I felt like every scene was shot beautifully and you just couldn't take your eyes away. And I really got invested in what happened to Gustave and Zero. We must have been watching a totally different movie or it's just not your flavor.

Admittedly part of my admiration for this film comes from my kids' love of The Fantastic Mr Fox, and The Grand Budapest Hotel mirrors this in establishing shots, mise-en-scene, and emphemera.

Part of me loves the characterization of M Gustave as seeming very ordered, orthodox, and proper, but being a rather rakish and immoral fellow.

I loved the layers of history, mimicking the trappings of Stalinism, fascism, and the last vestiges of the old European courts.

I liked that it was a series of narratives, such that the heart of the film that we know exists in a Platonic reality, since it's the memory of a memoir of a memory.

Also the humor is brilliant, if that's your thing.