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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Universal acclaim
Based on 18 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 14 votes
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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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A captivating entertainment for the holiday season and well beyond.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Anderson has created a world as stylized and inventive as anything he's done... "Fox" is a visual delight.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Has its pleasures, foremost being its look – a sophisticated puppet primitivism backdropped by near-psychedelic colorations.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Nathan
Genuinely original: a silly, hilarious and oddly profound adaptation for adult-sized children.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
