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Plot Summary
From director Wes Anderson comes his adaptation of beloved children's author Roald Dahl's novel about a fox battling angry farmers. Devil-may-care Mr. Fox (voice of George Clooney) quits chicken thieving to start a family with Mrs. Fox (voice of Meryl Streep). Twelve years later, he leaves his columnist job to rob poultry from three mean farmers who then devise a plan to trap Mr. Fox and others in the burrowing animal community. With his friends and neighbors, Mr. Fox saves his animal community and beats the farmers at their own game.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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92%- Reviews Counted: 225
- Fresh: 208
- Rotten: 17
- Average Rating: 7.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: Like the rest of his movies, this one is essentially infantile -- but when you're telling the story of a ne'er-do-well fox conspiring against a trio of nasty farmers, who cares?
Customer Reviews
Awesome
What a great movie. The most underrated movie of 2009. Wes Anderson is now a genius of animation too.
Wes Anderson at it Again
This might be one of the best movies of the year, and one of the most underrated animated films of the decade. Witty humor, clever characters, and a great cast creates a film that you can instantly love and watch repeatedly. One of the best adaptations of a children's book ever, head and shoulders over Where the Wild Things Are. The type of animation captures the story in a remarkable way, I couldn't imagine it any way else.
Wes Anderson - amazing
I can't wait for this to be released. I saw it in theaters and I enjoyed every minute. Best movie of the year for me. What a funny and visually rich movie. Wes Anderson is a genius.
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- $14.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2009
- © 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Indian Paintbrush Productions LLC. All rights reserved.
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- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version]
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- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack)
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