Loved, loved, loved this movie. Cute. Funny. Clever. Go see this movie. I want to see it again already. Oh, and the music is cool too!

A great Thanksgiving Day movie for the whole family..

Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009)-8/10...fun, lively and offbeat animated comedy from director Wes Anderson is as delightful as it is strange and wild. Based on the children's book by Roald Dahl its the story of a confident and sly fox(voiced by George Clooney... (read more) Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009)-8/10...fun, lively and offbeat animated comedy from director Wes Anderson is as delightful as it is strange and wild. Based on the children's book by Roald Dahl its the story of a confident and sly fox(voiced by George Clooney), who enjoys stealing chickens amongst other things and upsetting the local farmers...the evil Boggis, Bunce and Bean. When these farmers decide to fight back with guns, bulldozers and bombs, Mr. Fox, his family and friends must burrow and dig further into the ground to seek shelter. To say this is like nothing I have never seen before would be an understatement...the stop-motion animation style is far from the bright and dynamic style of Disney's Pixar studios. In fact the pallet itself is rather washed out, but in this film it has a sort of beauty that's all its own. It's also nice to see an animated film rely on character and story rather than gimmicks like 3D or frenetic action scenes where everything is in motion. The subject matter is also more mature than most kids fare these days. Thats not to say that children won't enjoy it, but the sense of humor of the film has something for adults too. I think this is due to its director Anderson, known for his offbeat and deadpan humor...and using the same actors in a lot of his films, some of his regulars are used in this film. It is different from his other live-action work, but you can see and tell that it comes from the same sensibility. Groundbreaking? Maybe...maybe not, but certainly different and enjoyable to say the least. Voice cast also includes Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Eric Chase Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Michael Gambon.

Think "Ocean's 11", keep Clooney but throw out the slick camera work and "we're trying to be cooler than Sinatra, but never will be" vibe, and replace it with stop motion animals and humor so dry it's almost British.

thought this movie was great! It certainly was not made for children, but what Roald Dahl based movies usually are? It was full of witty lines and awesome characters. So fun!

It is rare when I see a movie that I think deserves every bit of the praise it has recieved. Stop-Motion Animation might just have found it's place in the awards history.

If there's a better example of an auteur American filmmaker currently working than Wes Anderson, then I'd be very surprised. Anderson, the writer/director behind the great films The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Rushmore (1998), The Life Aquatic with Stev... (read more) If there's a better example of an auteur American filmmaker currently working than Wes Anderson, then I'd be very surprised. Anderson, the writer/director behind the great films The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Rushmore (1998), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007) is treating audiences to another whimsical and bittersweet tale of family and change. The main difference, of course, is that Anderson's new film, Fantastic Mr. Fox (based on the book by Roald Dahl), is entirely stop-motion animation. Many critics have argued that Anderson should have been making animated films his entire career based on the Fantastic-ness of his latest feature. Although I wouldn't trade any of his previous works for a replacement, I do agree that Anderson's unique style is extremely effective in the animation medium. Where else might you find a deadpan Badger voiced by Bill Murray, or a soundtrack to a children's film populated not by tween-y music but rather by The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys?

As one of my friends described it accurately, Fantastic Mr. Fox feels like an improvised animated film. The characters are lovable and understandable to children, certainly, but in addition, an older audience is treated to Anderson's comically ingenious humor. There has truly never been anything quite like Fantastic Mr. Fox, in terms of style and animation. The movie uses all of the great revolutionary techniques of stop-motion animation immortalized in Henry Selick's brilliant The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and elevates them to an entirely different level. And, more than any other film this year, Fantastic Mr. Fox is the children's film for adults (don't get me wrong, children will love the movie - but I suspect I loved it more). Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are belongs in this category, too, but whereas Jonze concentrated his efforts mostly on the darkness inherent in Maurice Sendak's children's story, Anderson explores both the darkness and the comedy.

Fantastic Mr. Fox, which Mr. Anderson wrote with Noah Baumbach, and which he has been hoping to make for many years, is in some ways his most fully realized and satisfying film.

An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is possibly the finest picture about family, community and poultry thievery ever made.

Fantastic Mr. Fox renews one's sense of animation's possibilities.

Cinema-candy for grown-ups. I left the screening room thinking, I want to see this movie again.