Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox resort to his natural craftiness to rise above the opposition breaking his lifelong promise to his wife.
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
18 September 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
22 April 1965, Paris, France
19 September 1963, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
1972, Epping, Essex, England, UK
19 October 1940, Cabra, Dublin, Ireland
1 June 1946, Dundee, Scotland, UK
6 May 1961, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
26 June 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
19 September 1960, Seattle, Washington, USA
23 May 1961, New York City, New York, USA
12 September 1959, London, England, UK
1 May 1969, Houston, Texas, USA
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
21 September 1950, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
March 11, 2014
Fantastic Mr. Fox is gorgeous and fanciful, with a glorious stop-motion animation style of its own.
March 11, 2014
Sometimes too clever by half, the film, replete with in-jokes, may in some ways work better for adults. Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwarztman also provide adept voice work.
November 25, 2009
The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.
March 11, 2014
No matter how thin the narrative clay gets in this stop-motion animated piece, there's more than enough faux fur to make you purr from plush-toy flashbacks.
June 18, 2016
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' may be the purest distillation of Anderson's specific, inimitable style.
March 11, 2014
Visually, the movie is a wonder, with its profusion of detail and exquisitely focussed "performances" by the figurines, whom Anderson frames in images as precisely composed as those in his live-action work.
May 06, 2011
A boisterous and magnificent treat.
March 11, 2014
If Fantastic Mr Fox feels like Anderson's freshest film since Rushmore, that can only be due to the animation. Beneath those tactile textures, there's nothing you could strictly call fantastic.
March 11, 2014
Though Anderson's trademark deadpan banter and clever silliness are in full force, the script is no less sophisticated than anything out of the filmmaker's catalogue.
November 25, 2009
Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.
March 11, 2014
It's the perfect animation format for Wes Anderson and makes permeable Anderson's frequently airtight outlook.
November 26, 2009
The same eye for immaculate compositions that had seemed increasingly to hem in his human actors here serves as the basis for some of the most inventive animated set pieces this side of Nick Park.

