Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

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A boisterous and magnificent treat.

May 6, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Top Critic

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 | Comment (1)

Christopher Orr

The New Republic

Top Critic

Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.

November 25, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

Top Critic

The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.

November 25, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

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 | Comment (1)

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

Wes Anderson's utterly charming Fantastic Mr. Fox is that rarity: a children's movie for all.

November 25, 2009 Full Review

Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Top Critic

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.

August 2, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Adults will really appreciate oddball whole that Anderson serves up here.

June 10, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

It's also a fairly entertaining children's story. But for kids? Let's say it's a film for Wes Anderson.

February 16, 2012 Full Review

Hank Sartin

Time Out Chicago

Ocean's 11 as it might look played out with poseable-puppet animals.

September 30, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Neil Pond

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

Dave White

Movies.com

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

January 31, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

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 | Comments (2)

Simon Miraudo

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 | Comment (1)

Nick Rogers

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

Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

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 | Comment (1)

Nick Deigman

Fan The Fire

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

April 6, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Webster

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

Philip Martin

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

Annlee Ellingson

Moving Pictures Magazine

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

February 3, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

S. James Wegg

JWR

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 | Comments (27)

Bruce Bennett

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

Kate Jinx

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

Rip It Up

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

January 12, 2010 Full Review

Jean-François Vandeuren

Panorama

With one creative genius adapting the work of another, the result is a mesmeric, visual feast, a host of adorable eccentric characters and a truly wonderful, kid friendly, caper.

January 11, 2010 Full Review

Giles Hardie

smh.com.au

• 1. Rat: That's my job!
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• 1. Ash: I weight less than a slice of bread.
  – Submitted by Putri D (8 months ago)
• 1. Franklin Bean: You wrote a bad song, Petey!
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• 1. Franklin Bean: You wrote a bad song, Petey!
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• 1. Mrs. Fox: Ash! Let's get cracking!
  2. Ash: I'm sick.
  3. Mrs. Fox: Your not sick.
  4. Ash: I have a temperature.
  5. Mrs. Fox: You don't have a temperature.
  6. Ash: I don't wanna go.
  7. Mrs. Fox: Hurry up, your gonna be late. [Ash walks to get ready]
  – Submitted by ethan t (11 months ago)
• 1. Ash: I can fight my own fights.
  2. Kristofferson: No you can`t.
  – Submitted by Daniel S (12 months ago)

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