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100Witty and wonderful, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the perfect Thanksgiving entertainment.
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100With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!
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100Anderson 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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100For 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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100You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play.
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100The result is an instant classic. The material allows Anderson to neutralize the most irritating aspects of his work (the precociousness, the sense of white-bread privilege) and maximize the most endearing (the comic timing, the dollhouse ordering of invented worlds).
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90Anderson has created a world as stylized and inventive as anything he's done... "Fox" is a visual delight.
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90Endlessly enchanting.
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90A pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne.
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90In 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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90A captivating entertainment for the holiday season and well beyond.
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89This is an animated film that happily has room for both an existentialist dread of death and a grinning joie de vivre.
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88An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.
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88These animals aren't catering to anyone in the audience. We get the feeling they're intensely leading their own lives without slowing down for ours.
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88A gorgeous and witty piece of stop-motion animation.
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88By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film - a thing of lovely comic wisdom.
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Most of all, it’s a magical feat, one that turns puppets into personalities and an English meadow into Anderson’s world.
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83For all the ostensible immaturity of its form, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the most grown-up thing the director has done in years.
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83Has its pleasures, foremost being its look – a sophisticated puppet primitivism backdropped by near-psychedelic colorations.
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80The 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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80Genuinely original: a silly, hilarious and oddly profound adaptation for adult-sized children.
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80The 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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75Mr. Fox's old-fashioned, hand-crafted animation is one of its main attractions. Another is Anderson's whimsical, dry humor, a natural for this tale of a crafty, dapper fox.
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Anderson injects such charm and wit, such personality and nostalgia - evident in the old-school animation, storybook settings and pitch-perfect use of Burl Ives - that it's easy to forgive his self-conscious touches.
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75It'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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75Fantastic Mr. Fox imparts lessons as profound as "The Road's" about love and gratitude and awareness of others. It just has more fun doing it.
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75If there's an argument against the film (and, admittedly, it's not much of an argument), it's that the movie may not be suitably childish to appeal to younger viewers.
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75The tale may be Dahl's, but there's a whole new wag to it – this is decidedly, weirdly and, at best, wonderfully a Wes Anderson movie.
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75Even though it's right there in the title, "fantastic" might be a touch hyperbolic in describing director Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, but only by a whisker.
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75This 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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63I’m flummoxed as to why the movie left me feeling up in the air, as opposed to over the moon. Partly, I think, it’s a matter of how Anderson’s sense of humor rubs up against that of the book’s author, Roald Dahl.
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60It’s unfortunate that the result is so unaffecting, especially in light of all the things the director does right.
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20The animals are often caught in a stare as if they, too, are looking for the tale that Anderson forgot.
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A bombastic, unbarred children's tale whose only considerable flaw is that it is too much fun. Both Wes Andersen and George Clooney are at their peak.
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