Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

United States of America

Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Cartoon Movies, Animated Movies, Animation Movies, Hollywood Movies, English Movies

Regency Enterprises, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures

George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Eric Chase Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray

Wes Anderson

Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson

Taglines: Dig the life fantastic!

based on novel or book, tree, peasant, fox, cider, tale, farm life, anthropomorphism, revenge, stop motion

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

Reviews:

Author: Geronimo1967
The eponymous character lives with his wife and son in their foxhole under a great big tree. He's still got a traditional mischief gene, though, and is determined to use it one last time to rob the three, ruthless, farmers who live nearby. What he doesn't think through is that these farmers are not dimwits. They know exactly who is pilfering from them and so determine to avenge themselves on him and his family by digging them out of their home and, well a siege and a trip to the sewers now ensue for the all of the subterranean families. George Clooney and Meryl Streep lead the vocal cast - and they are great - but for me, the star of the whole thing is Sir Michael Gambon's wonderful contribution as their principal, wonderfully odious, antagonist "Bean". The animation is simple and effective to watch and the writing is frequently pithy offering plenty for the older audience to take from this entertaining critique on responsibility, greed, revenge, loyalty - you name it, it's probably here somewhere. Roald Dahl had an amazing imagination and by imbuing the foxes with human traits (and the humans with some animal ones) here, he makes an whole load of attributes accessible to the audience in a more enjoyably tangential manner - traits that are not always honourable ones, neither. These role reversals work well and make you wonder if humanity is really just in the purview of people! Great fun.