Fantastic Mr. Fox
2 Oscar Nominations
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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.
What critics thought
Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation landed as one of the most warmly received films of 2009, with critics broadly charmed by its handcrafted visual personality and layered wit. The main fault line was fidelity to Roald Dahl: admirers saw Anderson's auteur imprint as an asset, while skeptics felt it buried the darker, nastier edge that makes Dahl's books genuinely unsettling for children. Its reputation has only grown since release, appearing on multiple best-of-the-century lists years later.
“In some ways (Wes Anderson's) most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“In style and sensibility, this is really a Wes Anderson film, with little Dahl. It's missing the darker elements that characterize Dahl's books. There you find the whiff of something nasty: child abuse, violence, misogyny. Gone, too, is any sense of danger.”
Cosmo Landesman·The Sunday Times
“Anderson injects such charm and wit, such personality and nostalgia—evident in the old-school animation, storybook settings and pitch-perfect use of Burl Ives—that it's easy to forgive his self-conscious touches.”
Amy Biancolli·Houston Chronicle
“Self-consciously quirky movie that manages to be twee and ultra-hip at the same time, it qualifies as yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot in the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.”
Ann Hornaday·The Washington Post
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorWes Anderson
StarringGeorge Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Eric Chase Anderson, Wallace Wolodarsky
ComposerAlexandre Desplat
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2 Oscar Nominations
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.
What critics thought
Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation landed as one of the most warmly received films of 2009, with critics broadly charmed by its handcrafted visual personality and layered wit. The main fault line was fidelity to Roald Dahl: admirers saw Anderson's auteur imprint as an asset, while skeptics felt it buried the darker, nastier edge that makes Dahl's books genuinely unsettling for children. Its reputation has only grown since release, appearing on multiple best-of-the-century lists years later.
“In some ways (Wes Anderson's) most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“In style and sensibility, this is really a Wes Anderson film, with little Dahl. It's missing the darker elements that characterize Dahl's books. There you find the whiff of something nasty: child abuse, violence, misogyny. Gone, too, is any sense of danger.”
Cosmo Landesman·The Sunday Times
“Anderson injects such charm and wit, such personality and nostalgia—evident in the old-school animation, storybook settings and pitch-perfect use of Burl Ives—that it's easy to forgive his self-conscious touches.”
Amy Biancolli·Houston Chronicle
“Self-consciously quirky movie that manages to be twee and ultra-hip at the same time, it qualifies as yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot in the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.”
Ann Hornaday·The Washington Post
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorWes Anderson
StarringGeorge Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Eric Chase Anderson, Wallace Wolodarsky
ComposerAlexandre Desplat
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