Filmmaker Wes Anderson earned household-name status in certain circles thanks to his deadpan “dramedies” such as “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Rushmore.” But in his latest, the hipster darling trots out his trademark style of offbeat …
Read Original Story: 'Mr. Fox' for adults as well as children – Access Atlanta
RECOMMENDED: The money behind Fantastic Mr. Fox could have employed any halfwit director and scored a commercial hit because of subject matter and holiday release. But instead of going for the softball, the studio took a chance on a guy who makes his …
Read Original Story: Film Sweat: “But Honey, I'm A Wild Animal” – Philebrity.com
Adapted from – and expanded upon – Roald Dahl’s excellent book, Fox is an original. An organic delight from start to finish. The story of a slightly egocentric fox [he has a trademark!] who gives up stealing chickens and squabs for the somewhat less …
Read Original Story: MOVIE REVIEW: Fantastic Mr. Fox – Fabulous Fake Fur Fun! – Eclipse Magazine (blog)
Wes Anderson, at his best and his worst, has always been a filmmaker with a fondness for hermetically sealed worlds of his own creation. Why it took him 15 years to take a stab at animation, I’ll never know. Of course, Fantastic Mr. Fox isn’t …
Read Original Story: Wes Anderson finds real life, at last, in hilarious Fantastic Mr. Fox – Isthmus
The characters may be talking animal puppets, but director Wes Anderson has never made a movie more recognizably his own than Fantastic Mr. Fox. Likewise, though his voice may be coming out of a fox– an extremely dapper fox– George …
Read Original Story: Better than Up?: Clooney, Streep make Fox fantastic – The Hook
“Fantastic” may be a little overboard when it comes to descriptors for Mr. Fox, but “entrancing” is about right. Even when Wes Anderson’s bizarre venture into adapting a children’s book via choppy stop-motion animation gets dull, it’s still hypnotic to …
Read Original Story: The philmguy Reviews: 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' – OK! Magazine
In his first foray into animation, director Wes Anderson lends his trademark quirky humor to a children’s tale, rendering it a sometimes witty cartoon for all ages. "Fantastic Mr. Fox" imaginatively reworks Roald Dahl’s 1970 storybook …
Read Original Story: MOVIE OPENS TODAY 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' is terrific fun for whole family – Detroit Free Press
The Fantastic Mr. Fox contains a moral that director Wes Anderson clearly learned well: Work with your strengths and be true to your nature. Though an adaptation of a Roald Dahl children’s tale in stop-motion animation is entirely …
Read Original Story: Movie review: The Fantastic Mr. Fox – Columbus Alive
Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney in his audacious Danny Ocean mode) really is fantastic. And, though he may not be exactly what Roald Dahl had in mind when he wrote his children’s book, this character is relevant to our times. …
Read Original Story: Fantastic Mr. Fox – Webster Kirkwood Times
If you’d like to see where the real wild things are, meet “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” a commingling of the oddball visions of British-Norwegian author Roald Dahl and America’s neo-Beat auteur Wes Anderson. The film finds the correlation …
Read Original Story: Yup, 'Mr. Fox' is fantastic – Boston Herald
