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Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Fantastic Mr. Fox reviews
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8.5 User Score:

Movie Info

Genre(s): Adventure  |  Animation  |  Comedy

Written by: Wes Anderson
Noah Baumbach

Directed by: Wes Anderson

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 13, 2009

Running Time: 87 minutes, Color

Origin: USA | UK

Summary

RATING: PG for action, smoking and slang humor

Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, and Jarvis Cocker

Mr. and Mrs. Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristopherson. But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr. Fox at any cost. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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100

Village Voice Scott Foundas

For the reportedly painstaking labor it took to create, the film is a marvel to behold--with wonderful shifts in perspective, an intensely tactile design, and an intentional herky-jerkiness of motion that only enriches the make-believe atmosphere.

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100

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!

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100

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Anderson has pulled off the most elusive of goals: He's made a nonchalant masterpiece, a movie that feels dog-eared and loved before it's even reached our hands.

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100

Slate Dana Stevens

You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play.

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90

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne.

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90

The New York Times A.O. Scott

In some ways his (Anderson) most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents.

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90

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

A captivating entertainment for the holiday season and well beyond.

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90

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Anderson has created a world as stylized and inventive as anything he's done... "Fox" is a visual delight.

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90

New York Magazine David Edelstein

Endlessly enchanting.

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88

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A gorgeous and witty piece of stop-motion animation.

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88

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.

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83

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Has its pleasures, foremost being its look – a sophisticated puppet primitivism backdropped by near-psychedelic colorations.

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80

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The result is a visual treasure that successfully blends deadpan quirkiness with a wry realism rarely seen in any film, let alone one for children.

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80

Empire Ian Nathan

Genuinely original: a silly, hilarious and oddly profound adaptation for adult-sized children.

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80

Variety Todd McCarthy

The film's style, paradoxically both precious and rough-hewn, positions this as the season's defiantly anti-CGI toon, and its retro charms will likely appeal more strongly to grown-ups than to moppets; it's a picture for people who would rather drive a 1953 Jaguar XK 120 than a new one.

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

This is no more a kids’ movie for kids than "Where The Wild Things Are"; it’s a film strictly for Wes Anderson fans of all ages. By now, they should know who they are.

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

It's an intriguing match of material and filmmaker. Dahl's distinctive, edgy storytelling seems to fit well with Anderson's idiosyncratic worldview and visuals.

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60

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

It’s unfortunate that the result is so unaffecting, especially in light of all the things the director does right.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Qwerty gave it a5:
Mr. Fantastic just wasn't. The animation was awkward. The famous voices really added zip; they might have been anyone. As to its being a movie for kids: Mighty mixed messages (theft is okay if the victims are creeps?).

Haseeb Q gave it a10:
A beautifully made movie, and an entertaining one to boot. It was just a world I could get immersed in, and wouldn't mind getting lost in. A real triumph.

Tim McWilliam gave it a10:
Fantastic Fox shows a great deal of humor.

Brian M gave it a10:
This was funny. star studded cast too.

John C. gave it a10:
This could only have been made in Britain. Hollywood, now CGI 'd, out would have never been able to understand the charm element. The movie must have been exceedingly difficult to make, the Production Manager as well as getting a 'tile' should also be nominated for an Oscar.

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