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- 2009
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 2009
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Summary 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 co...
Directed By: Wes Anderson
Written By: Roald Dahl, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson
- 2009
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 2009
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Fantastic Mr. Fox
8.4
Where to Watch
Summary 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 co...
Directed By: Wes Anderson
Written By: Roald Dahl, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
83
94% Positive
32 Reviews
32 Reviews
3% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
83
94% Positive
32 Reviews
32 Reviews
3% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The 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).
Fantastic Mr. Fox may be his most purely pleasurable film to date, evoking the Dahl books and Rankin-Bass productions that so transported him as a kid.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 516 User Ratings
8.4
92% Positive
473 Ratings
473 Ratings
5% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
3% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 516 User Ratings
8.4
92% Positive
473 Ratings
473 Ratings
5% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
3% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
An amazing animation movie that has a good story, as well as good and compelling characters.
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Wes Anderson's distinct aesthetic takes center stage in Fantastic Mr. Fox, a visually stunning feast for the eyes. Each meticulously crafted frame bursts with his signature symmetrical compositions, pastel color palettes, and quirky charm.
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Anderson has created a world as stylized and inventive as anything he's done... "Fox" is a visual delight.
An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.
Genuinely original: a silly, hilarious and oddly profound adaptation for adult-sized children.
If 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.
The animals are often caught in a stare as if they, too, are looking for the tale that Anderson forgot.
After the movie, Disney's Robin Hood was released and before Disney's Zootopia and DreamWorks' The Bad Guys was released I watched one of the best-underrated stop motion movies that I wished that I should have watched in theatre. Fantastic Mr. Fox is absolutely the most underrated movie to watch. It was a story about a fox family who moved into a home which is tree home near three known farmers it even includes a memorable children's song chorus that "Boggis, Bunce, and Bean One fat, one short, one lean These horrible crooks So different in looks Were nonetheless equally mean"I love that song so much that I like the part that has the street war scene. And the soundtrack and song choices in the movies are absolutely splendid to hear for my ears. I absolutely love the characters in the movie itself especially Fantastic Mr. Fox which is almost like the combination of Disney's Robin Hood, Nick Wilde from Zootopia, and Mr. Wolf from Dreamworks' The Bad Guys. But I really like Christofferson. A special white fox with a lot of talent that he has which really makes Ash the son of Mr. Fox **** stop motion animation is absolutely appealing to the eyes, it's very crisp to see how good the animation is and It's amazing to see how most of the handsome, beautiful, and cute anthro characters are in the movie. Especially the white fox named Kristofferson he is such an adorable-looking character and of course, some of their animated crushes who watched this movie as a kid or a long time ago. In closing, I would absolutely one hundred percent want this movie to get a sequel. Because Fantastic Mr. Fox is absolutely
"Fantastic".
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This was a pretty charming and well animated movie. I enjoyed the acting for the most part and the story was half decent , unfortunately I think that the length of the movie was a bit too long which made it a bit boring and tedious to watch by the end. There were also some bizarre choices in regards to parts in the movie( some were awesome while others were just meh)
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This gets my usual response to a well-made animated flick - it is cool to look at, but the story and characters are not very interesting. I don't know why that is the case with so many of them, but it is. The animation is gorgeous and seems to be a mix of stop motion and CGI. And the script - eh - based on a Roald Dahl tale, it focuses on a crafty fox who raises the ire of some nasty farmers by stealing their chickens and cider. This causes a backlash, and it becomes all out war between cute critters and creepy farmers. For some reason, top actors like Clooney and Schwartzman were given the voice-over roles, which ends up being more distracting than effective. The best of them was Wolodarsky as the shy, goofy possum. The music choices were weird and took me out of the film. A word about Wes Anderson - I know I'm supposed to like his slight, whimsical movies, but I don't. The humor is bland and the stories are usually pointless. Frankly, I don't get him, and I don't get why so many people like him.
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Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
Indian Paintbrush,
New Regency Productions,
American Empirical Pictures,
Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Release Date Nov 13, 2009
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating PG
Tagline Based on the beloved book by Roald Dahl.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
