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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Universal acclaim
Based on 33 critic reviews
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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
DVD: March 23, 2010
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 >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Witty and wonderful, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the perfect Thanksgiving entertainment.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
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).
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 >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
This is an animated film that happily has room for both an existentialist dread of death and a grinning joie de vivre.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
These 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.
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 >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Staff (Not credited)
Most of all, it’s a magical feat, one that turns puppets into personalities and an English meadow into Anderson’s world.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film - a thing of lovely comic wisdom.
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 >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
For all the ostensible immaturity of its form, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the most grown-up thing the director has done in years.
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 >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Fantastic 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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Mr. 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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
The 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.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
Even 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
I’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.
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 >Film Threat Matthew Sorrento
The animals are often caught in a stare as if they, too, are looking for the tale that Anderson forgot.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 114 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ben T gave it a10:
This movie is incredible, its not going to cater to you with easy jokes and physical humor, but its hilarious. Dont be fooled by the blowhards below me, watch this movie immediately.
m1 gave it a9:
Finally, a non-3D animated film! I don't mind 3D animated films in general; they're actually one of my few preferences for the use of 3D. But the old fashioned method of Fantastic Mr. Fox's animation was riveting and colorful. Wes Anderson added humor and surprising tension to draw you into these characters and feel sympathy for them. Despite the unnecessary drug content, this movie is highly recommended and should have won Best Animated Film.
Phillip J. gave it a10:
The humour is outstanding and the style superb. The brilliance of it can miss those not looking for it. It shouldn't be taken as a book adaption or a genre-defined movie. The realism of the closeness to the averageness of it is what drives Mr. Fox to look for a way out of the dull life he is in. There are many deep emotional levels that appeal to the heart of human nature and the dark side of business as seen by nature. Some things seem underplayed, but the story is solid. Don't go looking for something that makes you laugh every second especially if you have a close-mind. This movie is 50% opinion and 50% art.
Craig M gave it a10:
I absolutely adored this movie. Easily one of my favorites so far this year. I don't really think too many people will end up watching it, but I highly recommend it to anyone. Well, anyone with a decent sense of humour at least.
John J. gave it a9:
I'm not understanding the harsh criticism this film is getting from some people on here. "unwatchable", "worst attempt at film making...", "boring boring boring dumb". Well-crafted and witty films like this restore my faith in Hollywood after being clubbed over the head with productions like Avatar. Perhaps that's what's wrong with the aforementioned 'reviewers', they've subjected themselves to too many low-brow cinematic beatdowns that they can't identify talented filmmaking when it's presented to them in a subtle and sophisticated fashion.
Dan F gave it a9:
Divisive film. Wow. I love this movie and can't wait to get it on DVD. I'm a huge fan of Wes Anderson films, and it's a pleasure to have one that's completely innocent (with brilliant uses of the word "cuss"). I suppose if you're used to Disney and all the other movies produced in the same vein, this may come off poorly. However, if you watch carefully, there are scores of clever and charming moments that made me laugh out loud. Like a good meal or a quality album, this takes a little more thought to enjoy than say, your typical summer blockbuster. Thank goodness for dry humor. I watched this with my parents, who I thought would not enjoy the film. They loved it almost as much as I did, and with good reason. It's a lovely film, and beautiful (with great use of Helvetica all over the place). I enjoyed the characters and the dilemma. Another plus: Wes Anderson seems to understand that PG doesn't have to mean "kids movie." See this and pay careful attention - you'll be rewarded.
Matt A gave it a9:
It's hard for me to explain why i loved this movie so much. Maybe it was its beautiful art style. Maybe it was because of its fast paced structure? Maybe it was because of its subtle off-beat humor? I think it was its capability to blend all of the these aspects together into a full cohesive experience that was enjoyable on so many levels. I don't have any kids, and don't know if they would find this movie to be fun or funny... but I... a 22 year old man... found it to be completely fulfilling and it greatly surpassed my expectations.
