Thursday, August 14, 2014

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)


Twentieth Century Fox
Directed by Wes Anderson
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)

Quirky story about the life of a fox and his family, inhabiting a world of talking animals, who clashes with local human farmers when he can't resist the urge to raid the chicken coop. The farmers resort to large ammunition to rid themselves of the fox, driving the animals into an underground shelter. The farmers then kidnap his son, leading to a confrontation and rescue. Very modern, very self-conscious and completely disappointing adaptation of the classic children's story by Roald Dahl. This resembles more of an episode of The Simpsons than a movie, a series of vignettes featuring stereotypical characters with mumbled asides and a knowing wink-wink that hey, this is cool and we are funny.

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