Life on Mars (song) film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", starring Bill Murray as Steve Zissou. The song is played as Murray walks stoned to the bow of his boat in solitude as a party continues below deck. "Life on Mars?" is included in the 2005 film "Loverboy", first being played on the radio during a conversation between the 10-year-old Emily and Mrs. Harker, and later being sung a cappella by 10-year-old Emily. "Life on Mars?" is included on the soundtrack to the 2006 film "Factory Girl". "Life on Mars?" is used in the 2012 British film "Hunky Dory", sung by the character
The Darjeeling Limited last feature, the $50 million folly "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", which was an artistic and commercial flop, Anderson could only go upward." Dana Stevens of "Slate" magazine wrote, "Maybe Anderson needs to shoot someone else's screenplay, to get outside his own head for a while and into another's sensibility. It's telling that his funniest and liveliest recent work was a commercial for American Express." Kyle Smith of the "New York Post" gave the film 1 stars out of 4 and said "At a stage in Anderson’s career when he should be moving on, he is instead circling back."