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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

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Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 209
Fresh: 194 | 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.

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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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A boisterous and magnificent treat.

May 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment (1)
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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: The New Republic | Comment (1)
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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 (1)
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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 (1)
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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)
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Wes Anderson's utterly charming Fantastic Mr. Fox is that rarity: a children's movie for all.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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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 Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

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

June 10, 2012 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
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 Source: Time Out Chicago
Time Out Chicago

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
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
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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

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
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
Moving Pictures Magazine

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 (27)
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
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
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 Source: 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 Source: smh.com.au
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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
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"Fantastic" film.

Full review coming to themoviefreakblog.com on 6/14
June 15, 2011
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    1. Rat: That's my job!
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (8 months ago)
    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!
    – Submitted by Angela R (9 months ago)
    1. Franklin Bean: You wrote a bad song, Petey!
    – Submitted by Melita E (11 months ago)
    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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