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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Directed by Wes Anderson

Animation

Most recently watched by VicnaLobster, lordofthemovies, sensoria, sleestakk, schofizzy, tmetz1226, scottfinn, seanCduregger

Overview

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

Rated PG | Length 87 minutes

Actors

George Clooney | Meryl Streep | Jason Schwartzman | Wallace Wolodarsky | Eric Chase Anderson | Willem Dafoe | Bill Murray | Robin Hurlstone | Hugo Guinness | Michael Gambon | Helen McCrory | Wes Anderson | Jarvis Cocker | Owen Wilson | Juman Malouf | Karen Duffy | Roman Coppola | Jeremy Dawson | Garth Jennings | Brian Cox | Tristan Oliver | James Hamilton | Steven M. Rales | Rob Hersov | Jennifer Furches | Mario Batali | Allison Abbate | Molly Cooper | Adrien Brody | Martin Ballard

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

There was a lot of hype for this film and I was never impressed by the trailers. Friends have raved about it to me enough that I took to mocking it even before seeing it.

Well I saw it and it turns out my mocking was right. This movie is silly.

I’ll be honest, I can’t get past that terrible animation style. Especially for someone like Wes Anderson who has the money and class to make this much better. I don’t fault the guys who made Town Called Panic for their low-budget, but because that was played so insane it helped make it better. With Fox I just thought “this looks terrible”. It made it hard to identify or even care about the characters because I kept thinking how poorly it was done.

And then the story? Really? It’s a fox who steals some shit, the three guys get made and tear down his hole and then they steal more stuff. The end. This is a movie to get excited about? And how come the fox, who is killing chickens is friends with a rabbit? And how come the dogs and chickens are normal, non-talking animals when the fox is going around driving motorcycles? It’s all quite nonsensical. I’d forgive that stuff if the plot was halfways interesting but it’s not.

I love Wes Anderson but this was completely, if not below, mediocre. I look forward to his next live action film but I can do without another shitty animated one.

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