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The new Wes Anderson picture, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," features Bill Murray as Steve Zissou, plus a shoal of other stars. It is impossible to imagine an Anderson project with a single, refulgent name gleaming above the title. His movies appear to be modelled on theme parties, with as many performers as possible invited along. What the theme of "The Life Aquatic" might be is still a mystery, although I suspect that it concerns the perils of being all at sea. Everybody here seems adrift. First, there is Zissou himself, who for years has captained a series of adventures, both oceanographic and landlocked (how readily one can picture him lost in space), funding ...