Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 210
Fresh: 195 | Rotten: 15
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a delightfully funny feast for the eyes with multi-generational appeal -- and it shows Wes Anderson has a knack for animation.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 0
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a delightfully funny feast for the eyes with multi-generational appeal -- and it shows Wes Anderson has a knack for animation.
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A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers, who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. For 12 years, Mr. and Mrs. Fox (voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep) have lived a peaceful life in the wilderness with their son, Ash (voice of Jason Schwartzman). Shortly after their young nephew Kristofferson (voice of Eric Anderson) arrives for a visit, Mr. Fox's
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Cast
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George Clooney
Mr. Fox -
Meryl Streep
Mrs. Fox -
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Bill Murray
Badger -
Wallace Wolodarsky
Kylie -
Eric Anderson
Kristofferson -
Michael Gambon
Franklin Bean -
Willem Dafoe
Rat -
Owen Wilson
Coach Skip -
Jarvis Cocker
Petey -
Helen McCrory
Mrs. Bean -
Wes Anderson
Weasel -
Steven M. Rales
Beaver -
Adrien Brody
Field Mouse -
Mario Batali
Rabbit -
Molly Cooper
Rabbit Girl -
Allison Abbate
Rabbit's Ex-Girlfrie... -
Hugo Guinness
Nathan Bunce -
Jeremy Dawson
Beaver's Son -
Garth Jennings
Bean's Son -
Juman Malouf
Agnes -
Karen Duffy
Linda Otter -
Jennifer Furches
Dr. Badger -
Robin Hurlstone
Walter Boggis -
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Roman Coppola
Squirrel Contractor -
Robert Hersov
Pilot -
Brian Cox
Action 12 Reporter -
Tristan Oliver
Explosives Man -
Martin Ballard
Fire Chief
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A boisterous and magnificent treat.
Top CriticThe same eye for immaculate compositions that had seemed increasingly to hem in his human actors here serves as the basis for some of the most inventive animated set pieces this side of Nick Park.
Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.
The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.
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.
Wes Anderson's utterly charming Fantastic Mr. Fox is that rarity: a children's movie for all.
t's entertaining and tolerable in a way that I fear isn't ultimately good for Anderson, but works here.
Anderson wants to turn his fox family into another version of the dysfunctional families that regularly pop up in his work. And this is where his adaptation really rubs against the grain of the original.
Adults will really appreciate oddball whole that Anderson serves up here.
It's also a fairly entertaining children's story. But for kids? Let's say it's a film for Wes Anderson.
Ocean's 11 as it might look played out with poseable-puppet animals.
It not only looks scruffishly beautiful, but it's hilariously off-balance, warm-hearted, perfectly composed and detailed (like every other Wes Anderson movie) and casually but meaningfully acted.
Fantastic Mr. Fox stops short of being a potential classic. It's just done extremely well.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is oddly hilarious, enthralling and overwhelmingly heartwarming; it might even be the best film of Anderson's oeuvre.
Stop-motion animation filmed at half-speed, it's like a living pop-up book. Landscapes resemble carpet remnants and fire extinguishers plume what looks like cotton candy. Wes Anderson's team boundlessly, buoyantly fill each frame with fine flourishes.
It is a sweet film with some lovable moments, but it will take a more ambitious role of the dice to restore Anderson to his former lofty status.
nobody can deny that this was a Herculean task, and Anderson has succeeded where so many filmmakers would have failed.
Funny, eccentric and great-looking, Fantastic Mr. Fox is utterly unique and highly entertaining.
Wes Anderson's stop-motion animation is perhaps the purest distillation yet of his nerveless twee cinema of quirk; it economically summarizes his themes of family and outsiderism through remarkably detailed models of forest creatures.
Playfulness permeates every frame with inventiveness both visual and verbal (and an eye toward appealing to both children and adults) in this quintessential Wes Anderson film.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
A visual flair can't rescue an awkardly edited, talky film with little accessible wit--hard to imagine even the most patient child or their parents not being bored stiff.
Though the animals may just be wild, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a neatly contained film of family and friendship. And there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?
Although funny and suspenseful, Wes Anderson's style may be a little too obscure to carry over to the family film genre, but that certainly won't stop those of us who grew up with the story from getting nostalgic.
Une escapade réussie dans le domaine de l'animation pour le réalisateur qui aura su y reproduire cet univers chaleureux dans lequel il est toujours si agréable de se replonger
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- Mr. Fox: Redemption? Sure. But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.
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- Rat: That's my job!
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- Ash: I weight less than a slice of bread.
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- Franklin Bean: You wrote a bad song, Petey!
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- Franklin Bean: You wrote a bad song, Petey!
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- Mrs. Fox: Ash! Let's get cracking!
- Ash: I'm sick.
- Mrs. Fox: Your not sick.
- Ash: I have a temperature.
- Mrs. Fox: You don't have a temperature.
- Ash: I don't wanna go.
- Mrs. Fox: Hurry up, your gonna be late. [Ash walks to get ready]
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Foreign Titles
- Der fantastische Mr. Fox (DE)
- Fantástico Sr. Fox (ES)
