they are hot kicks, but seriously...

But an avid coterie of filmgoers are on a quest for the footwear equivalent of Zissou's elusive prey: the nifty Adidas-brand blue-and-aqua-striped training shoes sported by the oceanographer's team.
Shortly after the movie opened last month, online bloggers began extolling the style virtues of the modified version of the retro Rom design, with fat canary-hued shoelaces and "Zissou" printed on the side.