While watching the Royal Tenenbaums it was hilarious, the reason for this was that Wes Anderson does a great job in letting the viewer learn about all aspects of the characters and see their interactions with one another. With the narration you were able to hear about what all the characters were thinking.
From the get go, the parents have always been separated from the children. While sitting at the table in the beginning you could see the distance between everyone in the family. When the bird, Mordecai, is set free the same time when Royal leaves the house and upon Royals return the bird returns as well. Mordecai has white feathers to show that he has been through some traumatic experiences like the characters have as well.
It is weird that the family does all return to live in the house that they had when they were children. Chas was married and had children and returned home, Margot was married twice and decided to live home (because Chas was allowed to return). Then Richie decided to jump ship and head home. The children were not that close when they were children and they chose to return to the house that they left.
Royal thought that the only way that he could reconnect to his family was by saying that he had cancer and was dying. That was interesting since when the children were growing up he had not tried to connect with them. Royal stole money from Chas that ended in Chas suing his father. Royal shot Chas in the knuckles, and said that there were no teams. What about how everything that Royal did with Richie and later in life with Uzi and Ari were dangerous things. LIke riding on the side of garbage trucks and gambling.
