Fantastic Mr. Fox Reviews and Ratings


  • codyfranklin2
    November 23, 2009
    codyfranklin2
    I did not share the same excitement for Fantastic Mr. Fox that I did for Where The Wild Things Are. I loved the idea of Spike Jones doing a live action children's story, and passive about Wes Anderson doing a stop motion animation film. I am a fan of Wes Anderson and I thought he...( read more) was wasting his time with a medium that he does not have much control over as a director. I was wrong, Fantastic Mr. Fox has Anderson's fingerprints all over it and is one of the years most enjoyable films. It joins Pixar's Up as a one of those rare films that is enjoyable to children and adults alike. There are stories that Anderson was absent during production and running the show from his flat in Paris,well that didn't seem to matter. Anderson and Noah Baumbach's script is clever and funny, and it seems he stayed out of the art departments way and let them make this beautiful film. This film's animation isn't as smooth as Henry Selick's (Coriline/ A Nightmare Before Christmas) stop motion animation, but Mark Gustafson's work has throwback quality that seems more artistic and real.(Thanks Scott) It has what was missing from Where The Wild Things Are, great likable characters and fun. For some reason the celebrity voices didn't bother me like they do in other animation films. I was so caught up in the story and enjoyed the characters so much that I just didn't care,but also the casting fit the characters. Clooney's voice screams of class and leadership, Streep's of elegance, and Schwartzman is perfect as the highly imaginative son who doesn't have his father's charisma. Great score by Alexandre Desplat's that mixes beautifully with songs by Burl Ives, Jarvis Cocker, and The Beach Boys. Fantastic Mr. Fox isn't groundbreaking, it's just a delight to watch and makes you feel like a kid again.
  • 1658
    November 23, 2009
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  • aZkHaIrUl
    November 23, 2009
    aZkHaIrUl
    i want to see this movie badly...huhuhuhuhu...!!!!
  • jake304
    November 22, 2009
    jake304
    I am excited to see this movie.
  • allefra25
    November 22, 2009
    allefra25
    I love the book and the director, so, um, yes?
  • Boywoolner
    November 22, 2009
    Boywoolner
    OK. Over-hyped but enjoyable. It doesn't hold the attention span of a four year-old due to the amount of dialogue and complex storyline. Nice stop-frame animation.
  • leaf2smith
    November 21, 2009
    leaf2smith
    fantastic mr.fox?
    well it was a bit dissapionting
    last time my sister chooses the film because a lot of the time i was like "What the cuss?"

    the story of fantastic Mr.fox is based off the roald dahl book (took me two hours to read).
    It loosely sticks with the book but starts wi...( read more)th mr.Fox and Mrs. Fox (i think thats their names but i've forgotten now) and shows them raiding a farm getting themselves into huge danger and in the end abandoning raids on farms on the grounds that they are going to have a baby soon (not in the book). so 12 years later they are living just over the breadline with Mrs.fox being an artist and Mr.Fox being a newspaper colonist (whereby no one reads his reviews). Wanting a change in their life Mr.fox decides to move the family to a place near to the three meanest farmers (boogis, bunce and bean) to relight his passion of stealing.

    Now its hard to screw up a Roald Dahl story because he is one of the best writers ever, but unfortunately i felt this way while watching this movie. For starters it was very americanized and as an english person myself i didn't understand a lot of the jokes and neither did a lot of the audience in the movie which left these arkward silences where laughs were meant to take place and the writer Roald Dahl is English so it would make sense for it not to be so americanised.

    In my opinion it wasn't a great family film. In the cinema i saw kids wanting to go home and in all honesty "Up" is a much better choice for a family film (at the time of release).

    It did have its certain moments and it did make me laugh as well as good bits of suspence but after an hour or so into the movie i just wanted it to end.

    The animation was nice and that is what appealed to me in the trailer but you can see the fur moving out of place a lot which makes it look very unnatural at times. despite this there were some very bits with the animation such as the smoke.

    It had a strong cast though with big names like George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Jason Schwartzman.

    The director Wes anderson i feel wanted to make this movie more real life for example school life, work and jobs and everything but really it didn't need it and the only thing i can see why it was used was to increase the length of the movie (from a very short book).

    In conclusion i would rent it at most.
    Only if you are interested in the animation side of it or if you are a huge Roald Dahl fan.

    2*s
    it had its moments but after an hour i just couldn't watch another second. A lot of jokes which weren't that funny but it did have a strong cast i suppose.
  • thisguyoverhere
    November 21, 2009
    thisguyoverhere
    The wonderfully amazing Fantastic Mr. Fox is an awesomely brilliant dose of excitement.

    This Guy Over Here picks this as one of the best films of the 2000s
  • farmerjesus1
    November 21, 2009
    farmerjesus1
    Its truly incredible what Wes Anderson has done with Fantastic Mr Fox. Hes taken a story that seems so far removed from anythnig he has done before, and twisted and distorted it that it fits perfectly into that Wes Anderson mould. Its hip, funny, the characters are so real they'r...( read more)e surreal, the soundtrack is catchy and distinct, it even lays on the Anderson visual style despite being animated. Yet even though I love his entire catalogue of work, im starting to grow weary of that patented Anderson style, perfected in Rushmore and mimicked by every film hes done since. Fantastic mr Fox is an excellent film, I'm just hoping that with his next movie, one of my favorite directors can prove hes not just a one trick pony.
  • paperstarfalls
    November 20, 2009
    paperstarfalls
    fantastic! really enjoyed it :)
  • rahunique
    November 19, 2009
    rahunique
    how is this not on anyone i knows radar?! improper grammar and mother flippin' all!
  • babyamyox
    November 18, 2009
    babyamyox
    Good simple animations whitch makes it differant. I've always like this book when i was a little girl.
  • katiebugs3
    November 18, 2009
    katiebugs3
    took godson to see this. He really enjoyed it but it was different from the book and i thought it was ok.
  • dipa89
    November 17, 2009
    dipa89

  • harrycaul
    November 15, 2009
    harrycaul
    "I don't trust this guy. Anyway, set up the ambush!"

    Doubtless, a family film that appeals equally to children and grown-ups is probably not the easiest thing in the world to make. It has to be smart enough to amuse the adults without being so clever that it disenchants t...( read more)he kids. Having stumbled upon the winning formula with Toy Story, Pixar has been churning out exactly this kind of movie for the past fifteen years. Unfortunately, Wes Anderson does not strike the right balance here; his movie is much too clever for its own good and there simply isn't enough in it for the kids. I can't recall exactly what I was interested in seeing when I was seven or eight years old but it almost certainly it wasn't knife fights, ugly death scenes and foxes talking about existentialism! Fantastic? Not really. On the plus side, this is exquisitely animated, the voices are excellent and there are one or two surprisingly touching moments along the way. In particular, I thought the fox cubs mesmerised by the train set and the mystical late appearance of the wolf were beautifully done.
  • jackamaku
    November 14, 2009
    jackamaku
    If this film had come out when I was a little kid, I probably would have watched it a few dozen times by now. Anderson's style melds very well with Dahl's story and characters. I really liked the "old school" stop-motion in this film (although the stuff Selick does is amazing...( read more)). You can really feel the hand-made quality of it. Another thing I enjoyed was it didn't feel so sanitized for kids the way many children's films have become. Character's smoke (gasp!), steal, and (sort of) curse, so it's more of a throwback to Bugs Bunny type sensibilities than the PC stuff that comes out today. Clooney, Schwartzman, and Gambon are perfectly cast. And Anderson and Noah Baumbach But mainly, it was just plain fun to watch and had a lot of laughs...
  • bluehornet83
    November 13, 2009
    bluehornet83
    funniest film i've seen in the cinema for a long time. absolutly great. a must see
  • Bizbeth
    November 13, 2009
    Bizbeth
    It wasn't great, but at the same time it wasn't terrible. Plus it had its redeeming qualities in the fact that my friend did his work experience making models for it and he kept pointig out to me which he'd helped to create.
  • roryphelan90
    November 12, 2009
    roryphelan90
    Crucially, Mr. Fox isn't that likable, especially when compared to Meryl Streeps warm inhabiting of Mrs Fox, and especially when compared to his original incarnation in the book. You simply don't root for him, which makes the whole exercise of watching him outsmart Michael Gambo...( read more)n's nicely done villain kinda empty.
    You also don't really care about the 'mr Foxs son Vs. cousin' subplot**, which adds to the overall feeling of an empty experience.

    **(You don't seem to care, not just because its predictable, you just don't warm to/care for these subplot characters. It makes you wonder if something is lost because you don't see them acting in the flesh, or because there is a natural protracted distancing of the character through Andersons style).

    You initally admire the prettiness of the animation, although you soon get used to it and concentrate on the story, which doesn't really grip you in the way the book did.

    I found it kind of boring, lacking excitement in scenes from the book which were very exciting and humorous in a dark kind of way. Which is fair enough if there were alternate scenes to pick up this excitement/spirit for the film adaptation, but there isn't.

    There is some comedy in there, although the majority of it comprises of the wry repartee and 'overquirk' we have come to expect from Mr. Anderson (for defintion of 'overquirk' see my review of Rushmore). It is a comedy/style which some people may enjoy, and some people may forgive***, and some people may percieve as dry bourgeois piss.
    sorry this is a kids film - bourgeois pee.

    In relation to kids - I was skeptical with regards to the critics opinion, but really, I agree with alot of them in that I honestly don't see how kids would like this.

    If you're a fan of Wes then that just might get you through without too many criticisms (although I should note with your bias in mind that I enjoyed the Darjeeling Limited far more). If you don't like Wes Andersons other films, then stay away, or at least leave it to DVD if you are curious about the visual aspect.

    ***(because it is literally an animation, a format which is similar to/gives leeway for Andersons highly stylised tableau of eccentricity)
  • jennybutters
    November 12, 2009
    jennybutters
    Good acting makes this worth seeing even if stortyline is way out!
  • lynnew212
    November 11, 2009
    lynnew212
    Excellently witty dialogue and lovely animation.
  • bentheslayer
    November 8, 2009
    bentheslayer
    One of my favourite childhood books given great film treatment at last. It helps that I like Wes Anderson's work, as the film really does feel like one of his, but the story is very much in keeping with the spirit of the book. I can understand people critcising it for being too m...( read more)uch Anderson and not enough Dahl, but I personally thought it was a fine blend. A wonderful cast of voice talent and old-school stop-motion really give the film great charm.
  • techman991
    November 7, 2009
    techman991
    really good book this is
  • minguellana
    November 6, 2009
    minguellana
    just want to see..y?
  • heavensent913
    November 5, 2009
    heavensent913
    my son love this want to see the whole movie
  • djkynky1
    November 4, 2009
    djkynky1
    I'm not sure if Rohald Dahl would like the over americanism of his quintissential English tale, but i think he would of liked Gambon in his role.
    It's a shame it's been so long since i read the book as i can't fully remember how it actually unfolded, but on the whole it was a dec...( read more)ent retelling of the classic tale, even though some parts felt rushed and others were rather muddled, it just about made it to the finish line.
    The animation however was top draw (pun intended) and some of the scenes were just fantastic.

    This maybe a PG but it certainly isn't a kids film, apart from the fact the're talking animals, nothing else will really appeal to anyone under the age of 10, well it seemed that way in my screening as kids were fidgeting after about 15 minutes.....

    Definately an improvement on the cinematic abortion that was Darjheeling Limited.
  • kerikay1
    November 4, 2009
    kerikay1
    this movie seems great have to see it.
  • chintrixia
    November 3, 2009
    chintrixia
    nice!! i love it....
  • hanizah701
    November 3, 2009
    hanizah701
    It's fine, funny, interesting show... Just see the show and have big laugh to seee this movie.... Maybe not all are not interesting to us... But might be release your tension with your work and maybe your family..... or something else.
  • 339z
    November 3, 2009
    339z
    wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch......its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie.,....i think that michael gambon, george clooney, jason schwartzman, meryl streep, bill murray, anjelica huston, owen wilson p...( read more)lay good roles/parts throughout this movie....i think that the director of this kids/family/comedy/animation movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect thorughout this movie...i think that owen wilson (who had a cameo as the teacher in this movie) was good.....i think that the animation is really good thorughout this movie...i think that its a really well directed movie the animation is really good throughout this movie its got some good songs on the soundtrack its a pretty kewl movie with a good cast thorughout this movie
  • gossipmodel14
    November 3, 2009
    gossipmodel14
    Very funny, loved it
  • bonitafernan
    November 3, 2009
    bonitafernan
    Not as fantastic as i expected it to be :(
  • taraleannegriffiths
    November 2, 2009
    taraleannegriffiths
    Itss Suposed T B Well Gud :)
  • ppml2006
    October 28, 2009
    ppml2006
    might be worth seeing
  • GraciiGurlie
    October 28, 2009
    GraciiGurlie
    top saw it in hols fab when for my bro loved it myself x
  • ikhsanhermin
    October 28, 2009
    ikhsanhermin
    Hmm..Mr clooney's voice is soo cool
  • Nenebelle
    October 27, 2009
    Nenebelle
    Recommended by scottydgibbs.
  • resist2182
    October 27, 2009
    resist2182
    A quirky animation with an often witty, hilarious, and touching script. It has Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl written all over it, two great kooks. Just brilliant!
  • calumprice1
    October 27, 2009
    calumprice1
    Is 'cluster-f**k' a word you expect to encounter in a children's film? If not, you are out of tune with Wes Anderson, who uses the words 'cussed', 'cussing' to stand for f++k, f++king etc throughout this utterly charmless film. Mr Fox is a botched Anglo-American compromise ? a fa...( read more)irly attractive UK-animated design (heavily influenced by Wallace and Grommit) with hunks of Americana (cars, supermarkets, macho sports coaches) clumsily shoe-horned in. The real problem is the script ? not sufficiently funny or entertaining, and dripping with all the things the Brits hate about American kids' movies ? suburban family dysfunctionality, sulky adolescent spite, endless gooey reconciliations and repulsive soliloquies in which people publicly recant their failings and dedicate themselves to the virtues of Community, Family Love, Apple Pie etc. Creepy ? and Roald Dahl would have hated Anderson and his co-writer for all that. As for the 'stars' ? it's obvious why the supposedly cool Clooney was selected, but he can't impose a charm that's absent from the script. Hard to understand why Meryl Streep is in such trash (but hey, she was in Mamma Mia!), and the script gives her nothing except long-suffering Mom clichés: Slap But Ultimately Stand By Your Man; she does manage to sound younger than her 60 years. Willem Defoe as a rat is reasonably ratty. Michael Gambon does his all-purpose nasal cockney gangster drawl, which feels wrong for the character he portrays. Stupidities abound ? perhaps the film-makers don't genuinely think animals have Latin names because they were given them by the Ancient Romans; but they conflate Indian Hinduism with Chinese and Japanese traditions in a way that is lazy, ignorant and culturally offensive. Yes - the film does have a couple of nice visual moments and good lines. Yes, it has a bit of an eco-message and some stuff about protecting the Wild. But overall it stinks of being serially vulgarised, so as not to alienate various potential market segments, resulting in an end product that lacks any integrity whatsoever. Anderson is supposedly off-the-wall original, but is revealed here as an imitative playing-it-safe down-dumber. Although I love the book I hated the film. I saw it in a cinema with my mates and full of kids, who rarely laughed, and seemed, by the end, more than anything perplexed. Like me.
  • cheerman126
    October 26, 2009
    cheerman126
    this movie is gunna be terrible ....some movives should just not be made...can't they just leave a good book alone!!!
  • dietrichbeatty
    October 26, 2009
    dietrichbeatty
    Some really good action sequences. However, some children might find it a little boring.
  • Wedgy1975
    October 26, 2009
    Wedgy1975
    Plot 4
    Production 4
    Entertainment 3
    Characters 4
    Originality 5
  • Jameshy
    October 26, 2009
    Jameshy
    Now, i haven't read many books in my life because im too lazy, but Frantastic Mr Fox is the first book i ever read so i hold it close to my heart. It's just lucky that a director like Wes got to adapt it as i'm a big fan of him too. It doesn't matter that it has american voice ...( read more)actors because they do such a brilliant job. Wes Anderson has taken his style of wit and comedy and perfectly fused it into the Roal Dahl story and it works perfectly. A lot of people don't like his style so i say go watch fucking Finding Nemo or some shit. Anyway, the look was brilliant with all the autumnal shades going on and the figures looked so detailed. I especially liked the bit at the end when they salute the wolf, it was a really touch. I found myself laughing at loud consistently throughout the movie and didn't really want it to end. That is the sign of a good film.
  • scottydgibbs
    October 26, 2009
    scottydgibbs
    if your a fan of director wes anderson, he of such films as rushmore, royal tenubums and life aquatic, youll love this. all andersons trademarks are here, from the holding of the book, telling title at beginning, right through, catchy soundtrack, pans across, dry observations, an...( read more)d ecentric charactors, and dialogue coming from there mouths, its all present, anderson has magically, transplanted his world to animation, and stop motion too, george clooney as the fantastic fox is well suited,and a great supporting cast, including, meryl streep, bill murrey,, a exelent jason schwarzsman, who almost steals there show, the story is engaging, and although young kids might be put of by andersons style, lots of tallking, during beginning, it does turn into a adventure, but maintaining his wit and style, its been a long long time since i read the roald dahl novel, i was a kid, and read all his books,so cant say how much is changed, but as a film, i liked it a lot
  • theguinnessman
    October 25, 2009
    theguinnessman
    Having read the novel when I was young I knew a majority of the plot very well. Obviously with a novel being adapted for the big screen a few changes have to be implemented to brighten up the film a bit which I found good. Overall this is a decent film.
  • paulparsons2
    October 25, 2009
    paulparsons2
    A terrific adaptation of Roald Dahl's tale that has Wes Anderson's influence and quirkiness seeping throuhg it.

    The animation and visuals are beautiful to watch and the close ups of Foxy and friends and the details that they reveal are fabulous. The casting is where this film ...( read more)really scores, the considerable presence of Clooney and Streep set the tone perfectly. Clooney is bags of fun, I particularly loved his relationship with Kylie the possum, his go to guy. Scwartzmen's is also on good form as Ash especially when trying to deal with his insecurities when his more capable cousin makes an entrance. Some elements of this play out like the Royal Tenenbaums which was a really smart move....

    At it's core this is a very sweet natured fiilm that is beautiful to look at and is just plain fun to watch. The closing scenes of our heroes in the supermarket are just terrific and a perfect way to bring the story to a close. Wes Anderson has done it again and whillst this is Roald Dahl's tale, it is most definately a Wes Anderson film first anf foremost.... Awesome.
  • elychihuas
    October 24, 2009
    elychihuas
    Interesting story..and original too...
  • miniloo78
    October 24, 2009
    miniloo78
    so want to see this was a fav book of mine as a child
  • Lemure
    October 24, 2009
    Lemure
    It takes a special type of director to fuck up a Dahl-based stop-motion. Very few directors could do it. Wes Anderson is one of them. He's taken the much-loved story and characters and made it into another shitty Wes Anderson movie with those irritating photoframe edits, the usua...( read more)l family melodrama, and crap music. Granted, it has moments of charm but I'm putting those down to Dahl and the medium.

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