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Fantastic Mr. Fox
After 12 years of bucolic bliss, Mr. Fox breaks a promise to his wife and raids the farms of their human neighbors, and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
23 May 1961, New York City, New York, USA
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
18 September 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
21 September 1950, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
1 June 1946, Dundee, Scotland, UK
22 April 1965, Paris, France
1 May 1969, Houston, Texas, USA
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
19 September 1960, Seattle, Washington, USA
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
March 11, 2014
Though Anderson's trademark deadpan banter and clever silliness are in full force, the script is no less sophisticated than anything out of the filmmaker's catalogue.November 25, 2009
The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.November 26, 2009
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.March 11, 2014
It's the perfect animation format for Wes Anderson and makes permeable Anderson's frequently airtight outlook.March 11, 2014
Fantastic Mr. Fox is gorgeous and fanciful, with a glorious stop-motion animation style of its own.March 11, 2014
If Fantastic Mr Fox feels like Anderson's freshest film since Rushmore, that can only be due to the animation. Beneath those tactile textures, there's nothing you could strictly call fantastic.March 11, 2014
Sometimes too clever by half, the film, replete with in-jokes, may in some ways work better for adults. Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwarztman also provide adept voice work.March 11, 2014
No matter how thin the narrative clay gets in this stop-motion animated piece, there's more than enough faux fur to make you purr from plush-toy flashbacks.May 06, 2011
A boisterous and magnificent treat.November 25, 2009
Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.March 11, 2014
Visually, the movie is a wonder, with its profusion of detail and exquisitely focussed "performances" by the figurines, whom Anderson frames in images as precisely composed as those in his live-action work.June 18, 2016
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' may be the purest distillation of Anderson's specific, inimitable style.