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Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009

Wes Anderson

Animation, Voice: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray ...

7.3

26,411

Animation. Comedy Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family. Mr. and Mrs. Fox (voices from George Clooney and Meryl Streep) live an idyllic home life with their son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and visiting young nephew Kristofferson (Eric Anderson). But after twelve years of quiet domesticity, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr. Fox's wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"In some ways his [Anderson's] most fully realized and satisfying film. (...) Amazing ingenuity and skill (...) it is precisely the movie that a child smitten with Roald Dahl’s fiction and fascinated by the enigmas of the adult world would dream of making"
		Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Other filmmakers turn to children’s stories when they have kids of their own. Anderson seems to have made this one for his inner child (...) is a fairy tale for adults"
		Sara Vilkomerson The New York Observer	"Visually, its a true marvel (...) it feels like something entirely new."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An animated picture with nothing in common with traditional animation (...) Children, especially, will find things they don't understand, and things that scare them. Excellent. A good story for children should suggest a hidden dimension (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"An instant classic. The material allows Anderson to neutralize the most irritating aspects of his work"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"Anderson’s indelible imprint is on every frame here, more for better than for worse. All craft aspects are aces."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I found it utterly beguiling and entirely consistent (...) In its cheerful anarchy and brutality it's very Dahlian – in spirit, anyway (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ian Nathan Empire	"Genuinely original: a silly, hilarious and oddly profound adaptation for adult-sized children (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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