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The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes Anderson, 2014.
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Edition screened: 20th Century Fox Blu-ray, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.

Summary: Depicted murder of a cat as a cheap gag.

Details: Willem Dafoe throws a Persian cat out a window at 49:55, and we see the cat splattered on the ground many stories below at 50:10.

What happened to Wes Anderson?  The first four or five films were wonderfully funny, entertaining, and well written. The last four have been tedious warmed-over messes, resorting to unoriginal animal abuse gags for laughs. Bye-bye Wes.