While raiding a chicken farm, Mr. Fox and his wife Felicity (George Clooney, Meryl Streep) trigger a fox trap and become caged. Felicity reveals to Fox that she is pregnant and pleads with him to find a safer job should they escape.
Two years later, the Foxes and their sullen son. Ash (Jason Schwartzman), are living in a hole. Fox, now a newspaper columnist, decides to move the family into ... a better home and buys one in the base of a tree, ignoring the warnings of his lawyer Badger (Bill Murray). The tree is located very close to the enormous facilities run by farmers Walter Boggis, Nathan Bunce, and Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon). Soon after the Foxes move in, Felicity's nephew Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson) comes to live with them, as his father has become very ill. Ash finds this situation intolerable considering his soft-spoken cousin is apparently superior to him in every possible aspect and seemingly everyone, including his own father, is charmed by him at his expense.
Fox and the opossum building superintendent, Kylie (Wallace Wolodarsky), make plans to steal various types of produce and poultry from the three farms, one by one. After all three heists are a success, the farmers decide to camp out near the Fox family's tree and kill Fox. When he emerges, the farmers open fire, only managing to shoot off his tail before he retreats back into his home. The farmers then attempt to dig Fox out, first by hand and then with three excavators. After tearing the hill site of the tree into a massive crater, the farmers discover that the Foxes have dug an escape tunnel deep underground.
Reasoning that the Foxes will eventually have to surface in search of food and water, the farmers lie in wait at the tunnel mouth. Underground, Fox encounters Badger and many of the other local animal residents whose homes have also been destroyed. As the animals begin to fear starvation, Fox leads a digging expedition to the three nearby farms, robbing them clean of Boggis's chickens, Bunce's ducks and geese, and Bean's turkeys, apples, and alcoholic cider. While the other animals feast, Ash and Kristofferson, beginning to reconcile after Kristofferson defended his cousin from a bully, return to Bean's farm, intending to reclaim Fox's tail, only to find that Bean has taken to wearing it as a necktie. When they are interrupted by the arrival of Bean's wife, Ash escapes but Kristofferson is captured.
After discovering that Fox has stolen all of their produce, the farmers decide to flood the animals' tunnel network by pumping it full of cider. The animals are forced to retreat into the sewers, and Fox learns that the farmers plan to use Kristofferson as bait to lure him into an ambush. They are soon confronted by Rat (Willem Dafoe), Bean's security guard. After a struggle with Fox that leaves him mortally wounded, Rat divulges Kristofferson's location.
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In his first foray into animation, director Wes Anderson lends his trademark quirky humor to a children's tale, rendering it a sometimes witty, if odd, cartoon for all ages.
Fantastic Mr. Fox imaginatively re-works Roald Dahl's 1970 storybook into a zippy, stop-motion adventure, with top-notch voice talent and an appealing-looking gaggle of furry creatures. While much of it is entrancing and the tone is endearingly peppy, the humor is uneven and the tale grows repetitive.
It's an intriguing match of material and filmmaker. Dahl's distinctive, edgy storytelling seems to fit well with Anderson's idiosyncratic worldview and visuals. The world in Fantas...
The painstaking process known as stop-motion animation has brought all kinds of things to life, from that big ape King Kong to the very British Wallace and Gromit, but in the playful and funny Fantastic Mr. Fox it goes those feats one better: It reanimates filmmaker Wes Anderson's career.
With George Clooney and Meryl Streep voicing the Foxes, the ultra-sophisticated Nick and Nora Charles of the vulpine world, this adaptation of the Roald Dahl tale does more than occupy its own particular space between the worlds of childhood and adults. It provides a pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne...
This is the kind of movie that you must have an aquired taste for. It's goofy and fun but very slow paced. I really did enjoy it myself. I don't know if kids would like it very much because there isn't a whole lot of crazy movement and kiddie humor. Although, there is some mature humor, woodland animals replacing bad words with "cuss" In my opinion, is funny. "What the cuss is wrong with you?!" :)
I have to say do like this animation but is better for adults and teens, i think younger kids would get bored too easily as a general rule. Worth a watch.
