![The Fantastic Mr. Fox [Blu-ray]](http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/3/33/50x50px-ZC-33ff9fb9_B001QOGYBS-51mBn7POEoL.jpg)
Director Wes Anderson retells Roald Dahl's children's classic "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" with the use a stop-motion animation, and some fine voice-acting by a solid cast (featuring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman).
The film uses the animals on the country side to examine if they can change their very nature when confronted with life-challenging situations. Mr. Fox and Felicity, both foxes who escape from harm after raiding a chicken farm, well, because that's what foxes do, they pledge to find better ways to "make a living" so to speak, if they survive, and later they have a son, Ash, who's a bit different than the usual fox, and has to deal with his uber-fox cousin Kristofferson's presence as the uncle with double pneumonia sends Kristofferson to stay with them. As time goes on Mr. Fox finds himself succumbing to the lure of raiding chicken farm with help, and then the chicken farmers strike back, making the life hard for all the nearby animals, and the hunt ensues.
It's been said that Wes Anderson's direction of this film is somewhat like "The Life Aquatic" in spots, only with live humans in that film, and I can see the similarities, but I didn't much care for "The Life Aquatic", but the use of stop-motion animation in this film is simply charming, and cussing fantastic! There might be a few too many close up shots of tears running from the eyes of the animal characters, but it helps us relate to their plight, and their fight for survival in light of the humans employing every strategic and tactical advantage at their disposal.
This is a film that can be enjoyed on the children's level and the adult's level, it just cussing works.
I give the film 3 stars, or a grade of B.
The film uses the animals on the country side to examine if they can change their very nature when confronted with life-challenging situations. Mr. Fox and Felicity, both foxes who escape from harm after raiding a chicken farm, well, because that's what foxes do, they pledge to find better ways to "make a living" so to speak, if they survive, and later they have a son, Ash, who's a bit different than the usual fox, and has to deal with his uber-fox cousin Kristofferson's presence as the uncle with double pneumonia sends Kristofferson to stay with them. As time goes on Mr. Fox finds himself succumbing to the lure of raiding chicken farm with help, and then the chicken farmers strike back, making the life hard for all the nearby animals, and the hunt ensues.
It's been said that Wes Anderson's direction of this film is somewhat like "The Life Aquatic" in spots, only with live humans in that film, and I can see the similarities, but I didn't much care for "The Life Aquatic", but the use of stop-motion animation in this film is simply charming, and cussing fantastic! There might be a few too many close up shots of tears running from the eyes of the animal characters, but it helps us relate to their plight, and their fight for survival in light of the humans employing every strategic and tactical advantage at their disposal.
This is a film that can be enjoyed on the children's level and the adult's level, it just cussing works.
I give the film 3 stars, or a grade of B.
