Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 207
Fresh: 193 | Rotten: 14
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: 8.3/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 37 | 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
PG, 1 hr. 28 min.
Nov 25, 2009 Wide
Mar 23, 2010
$20.9M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (207) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (195) | Rotten (15) | DVD (10)
A boisterous and magnificent treat.
The 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.
The tale may be Dahl's, but there's a whole new wag to it -- this is decidedly, weirdly and, at best, wonderfully a Wes Anderson movie.
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.
(...) Una película entretenidísima pero además sorprendente desde el punto de vista estético.
nobody can deny that this was a Herculean task, and Anderson has succeeded where so many filmmakers would have failed.
Fantastic Mr. Fox gets the deluxe treatment in its combo-pack release, which gives you the movie on blu-ray, standard DVD and a digital copy, all in the same package.
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 creepy cartoon filled with inappropriate inside jokes that are mostly over the head of the desired tyke demographic, exactly what one would you expect of a claymation vehicle crafted by the cerebral Wes Anderson.
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.
Cute movie and def different after all the cgi movies to come out with something new.
July 25, 2010Super Reviewer
Even if it's stop motion animation, Wes Anderson still infuses his classic style and techniques into this extremely quirky, offbeat hilarious film with stunning animation/detail, an amazing voice cast and classic Anderson humor!
January 18, 2012Super Reviewer
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