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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

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Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 205
Fresh: 191 | 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.

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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

Mar 23, 2010

$20.9M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (205) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (193) | Rotten (15) | DVD (10)

A boisterous and magnificent treat.

May 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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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.

November 26, 2009 Full Review Source: New Republic | Comment
New Republic
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Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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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.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment (1)
Houston Chronicle
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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.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment (1)
Globe and Mail
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Ocean's 11 as it might look played out with poseable-puppet animals.

September 30, 2011 Full Review Source: American Profile | Comment (1)
American Profile

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.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Movies.com

Fantastic Mr. Fox stops short of being a potential classic. It's just done extremely well.

January 31, 2011 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife | Comment (1)

Fantastic Mr. Fox is oddly hilarious, enthralling and overwhelmingly heartwarming; it might even be the best film of Anderson's oeuvre.

October 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix | Comments (2)
Quickflix

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.

September 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment (1)
Suite101.com

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.

August 9, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment
sbs.com.au

(...) Una película entretenidísima pero además sorprendente desde el punto de vista estético.

May 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | Comment (1)
Uruguay Total

nobody can deny that this was a Herculean task, and Anderson has succeeded where so many filmmakers would have failed.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire | Comment (1)
Fan The Fire

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.

April 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment (1)
Apollo Guide

Funny, eccentric and great-looking, Fantastic Mr. Fox is utterly unique and highly entertaining.

April 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment (1)
Apollo Guide

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.

March 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

March 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Moving Pictures Magazine | Comment
Moving Pictures Magazine

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.

March 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Sly Fox | Comments (7)
Sly Fox

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

February 3, 2010 Full Review Source: JWR | Comment (1)

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.

February 1, 2010 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comments (26)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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?

January 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Concrete Playground | Comment
Concrete Playground

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.

January 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Rip It Up | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Fantastic Mr. Fox

Cute movie and def different after all the cgi movies to come out with something new.

July 25, 2010
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' filled with the usual Wes Anderson isms and proves to be one of the best animated films i've ever seen, and not because it is simply NOT made by Pixar. 'Fox' is charming, whimsical, fun, and quirky. All the things that got Wes Anderson to where he is today. Another fantastic movie

April 19, 2012
Kase Vollebregt

Super Reviewer

    1. Bean's Son: Dads on fire!
    – Submitted by Tanner B (3 months ago)
    1. Mrs. Fox: I know what it's like to feel different.
    2. Ash: I'm not different, am I?
    3. Mrs. Fox: We all are -- him especially -- but there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?
    – Submitted by Nina B (5 months ago)
    1. Ash: What's the 'K' for?
    2. Agnes: It's for pep.
    3. Ash: Pep? It's a 'K'!
    4. Agnes: We're going steady.
    – Submitted by Filomena G (5 months ago)
    1. Ash: I'm here to rescue you.
    2. Kristofferson: I've got mixed feelings about that.
    – Submitted by Filomena G (5 months ago)
    1. Ash: Am I getting better, Coach?
    2. Coach Skip: Well, you're sure as cuss not getting any worse.
    – Submitted by Diego T (7 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Der fantastische Mr. Fox (DE)
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