Wes Anderson’s new movie sure has a lot of affairs to get in order.

I think we can agree that Wes Anderson’s movies, whether they’re good, great, or mediocre, are whimsical and great-looking. If they weren’t, then audiences in New York or Los Angeles wouldn’t be swarming over to the few theaters before they expand nationwide and find more movie goers. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Moonrise Kingdom” was on my best of the decade list, “The French Dispatch” was a good, if not great entry. “Astroid City” lacked the ambiance it deserved. And there was a series of short films on Netflix with “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” being the best.

His new movie “The Phoenician Scheme” is a worthy addition to his filmography that seems to have more balls than the PG-13 rating would suggest. There’s an opening scene when the top of a passenger is ripped off when a plane gets shot down, there’s also a money game that I bet Steven Soderbergh would enjoy, and never again will I see someone rip open a dead deer and coins pour out.

The time is 1950. The main protagonist is Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), a wealthy, but shady businessman, who survives a plane crash, much to the dismay of the public. His dirty money games have made him worthy of comic strips that would be worthy additions to The Washington Post, and he’s wanted by both the good guys and bad guys. He must be immortal if he’s able to survive assassination attempts, but I don’t really know how this guy got lucky.

He’s also a father of nine boys and one daughter named Leisl (Mia Threapleton), who is also a nun and whom he names the sole heir of his estate and business affairs in the event of his actual death. But only on a trail basis. She nearly accuses her father of murdering her mother, but he points out that it would be her Uncle Nubar (Benedict Cumberbatch). Or could he really be Leisl’s father? And so, this movie also plays like a parenting drama with a much better attitude than what was displayed in “Clown in a Cornfield.” And I don’t even think that movie was supposed to play like a parenting drama.

There’s also the new tutor Bjorn (Michael Cera), whom Korda hires as an executive assistant as part of his latest scheme to overhaul the infrastructure of Phoenicia. This young tutor specializes in insects, and is even taught by the young nun that he is both a scientist and an atheist. And sparks could fly between them, especially since she hasn’t taken her vows yet.

There are many characters Korda engages and sometimes argues with in order to settle his affairs, and they’re portrayed by the likes of Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, and Richard Ayode. And few of them like to play H-O-R-S-E in a half-built underground railroad.

There are also black and white sequences of Korda being judged in the afterlife (with Bill Murray as God), and it looks like del Toro still has his beard leftover from “The French Dispatch.” For some reason, I feel like the art direction in these segments are inspired by the works of Ari Aster, who has been able to take the horror genre in various categories.

I’d be lying if I completely understood the story regarding the money game, but I’m telling you the truth when I say that “The Phoenician Scheme” is funny, wacky, and stylish, a gift that Anderson specializes in his films. The cast is terrific, especially with del Toro possessing a lot of charisma and age for his character, whether we’re in the real world or the spiritual world. Threapleton seems to be possessed by Mia Wasikowska based on how she expresses her tone, and I’m not sure a lot of nuns would wear eye make-up. And Cera makes an impressive Anderson debut, reminding me of how “Superbad” helped make him into a star. Back in 2007, I never dreamed I would see him in a movie like this. Maybe I should have.

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