Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox missed my notice on it's release a couple weeks ago, and it was destined for an airplane movie until I was too lazy to leave Carlsbad to drive to Oceanside for The Road. My lucky day because I enjoyed Fantastic Mr. Fox. This completes the unplanned animation trilogy of the last week and the Roald Dahl story that I never read was brought to my attention. Reviews of Streep and Clooney's voice work had been so positive that I decided to give it a go.
Fox is a reformed chicken hunter longing for his glory days and decides to go out with one big last raid. When a Fox, Opossum, Badger are linked together, the only way this could work is as a Pixar/Disney movie but we are treated to a Wes Anderson movie instead. The heart of the story is Fox's relationship with his son and wife and as discussed in a Saturday conversation, this could be called a guy coming of age or finding himself genre.
Except that it is also a work of Wes Anderson and has the exact same quirky style as his other live action movies.
So if you like Wes Anderson movies (and this one reminded me of the dry humor in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou then you will like this movie. The same slow wit, one liner delivery that you're not really sure if you should laugh or not, and then rapid fire speeches makes for a fun outing.
I'm sure this movie is getting overlooked and is destined for DVD soon. Fantastic Mr. Fox can wait for DVD but if you have 93 minutes to spare, want a short movie and something different, you could give it a go. The humor, pace, and written chapter titles were over the heads of the 5 and younger set.
Fox is a reformed chicken hunter longing for his glory days and decides to go out with one big last raid. When a Fox, Opossum, Badger are linked together, the only way this could work is as a Pixar/Disney movie but we are treated to a Wes Anderson movie instead. The heart of the story is Fox's relationship with his son and wife and as discussed in a Saturday conversation, this could be called a guy coming of age or finding himself genre.
Except that it is also a work of Wes Anderson and has the exact same quirky style as his other live action movies.
So if you like Wes Anderson movies (and this one reminded me of the dry humor in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou then you will like this movie. The same slow wit, one liner delivery that you're not really sure if you should laugh or not, and then rapid fire speeches makes for a fun outing.
I'm sure this movie is getting overlooked and is destined for DVD soon. Fantastic Mr. Fox can wait for DVD but if you have 93 minutes to spare, want a short movie and something different, you could give it a go. The humor, pace, and written chapter titles were over the heads of the 5 and younger set.
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