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Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

58 reviews
Sales Rank: 151

Format: Anamorphic, Colour, PAL, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Audio Description)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5039036043540
ASIN: B002JM1IIA

Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: March 1, 2010
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The visually ravishing animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox follows a fox, voiced by George Clooney and dressed in a natty brown corduroy suit, as he cheerfully and recklessly takes his thieving ways a little too far and brings down the wrath of some sour-faced poultry farmers on his family and friends. Based on a book by children's author Roald Dahl (who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach), the movie is the work of Wes Anderson (writer-director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums), who expanded and elaborated on the original story; the combination is inspired. Anderson's sensibility--his fondness for meticulous compositions, coordinated colors, and narrative filigree--can sometimes seem finicky and stiff in live-action movies, but it's exquisitely suited to the painstaking art of stop-motion animation. Every corner of the screen crackles with visual invention and whimsical humor. The top-notch vocal cast (which also features Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Owen Wilson, and others) create vivid personalities that perfectly mesh with the movie's lush colors and luscious textures. Fantastic Mr. Fox is an off-beat gem, a giddy mix of adult emotional issues, wild animal behaviour, and childlike delight.--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

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George Clooney	Meryl Streep	Jason Schwartzman
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Interesting, but ultimately disappointing July 16, 2010
S. Millman (Penarth, Wales)
I am an avid fan of interesting and innovative animation, and when I heard there was to be a Fantastic Mr. Fox film made using stop motion I couldn't help but be excited. After seeing the trailers, however, my heart sank. The story seemed so different, it was so americanized and the animation seemed poor rather than deliberately juvenile. It was with trepidation that I watched this film, and in some ways my fears were realized.
As you probably have read, the story is quite different from the book. Like many people I grew up with Fantastic Mr Fox and it was my absolute favourite Dahl story. The bones of the story are there, but Anderson has placed his own stamp on it - in places the script seems more like an analysis of the modern american family rather than a Dahl adaptation. While this is, at times, fascinating and works well (the relationship between Ash and Kristofferson particularly) I feel that it conflicts too much with the original material. While I am a strong believer in keeping film adaptations seperate to the original books (for example, Howl's Moving Castle and How To Train Your Dragon are great films in their own right) in cases where the new story is worse than the old or over complicated, I find it impossible not to make comparisons and complain. There was plenty in the original book that would entertain onscreen and while the Dahl family approve, in my opinion there was no need to change it other than to satisfy Anderson. It is enjoyable, yes, in places great - but it could have been so much better. It could have been fantastic.
I thought that the fact that the main characters were american would annoy me a lot more than it did - what annoyed me more that the heroes were american while the villains were english. Hmm. In terms of where it is set, I don't believe Dahl specifies: much like Willy Wonka, it is left unspecific so children of any nationality can feel like it is their story, set in their town. However, in some places FMF goes so very american it is jarring - banjo scene anyone? - and I am so fed up with the american hero vs english baddie scenario. It may not be intentional but some times it is just offensive, regardless of how many times people say brits are better at playing baddies.
What I was pleasantly suprised about was the animation. At first the movements are rather jarring, and the postures of the animals are very strange - I'm not quite sure that the way they stand and walk quite work, they all look a bit too human. The way they smile as well (Mr Fox's nervous smiles come to mind) are also scary rather than humorous. However, it is unique, and like all Anderson films, very quirky. The way the fur moves is particularly lovely, and it makes a change to see something blatantly hand made on the big screen rather than well rounded and smooth (like new Wallace and Gromit films compared to old ones - they were much more interesting with the visible fingerprints!)
In conclusion, it is worth a look. You will almost certainly be entertained, more than likely wishing it was more like the book, but hopefully inspired.

2 out of 5 stars

Surreal and creepy. July 16, 2010
Hollie (UK)
I know I'm going against popular opinion here but I just didn't like this. The whole film was incredibly surreal and the animation seriously creeped me out, particularly the human puppets. Though I have read The Fantastic Mr Fox it was between 15 and 20 years ago and I struggled to recognise any of the plot. Everything seemed to move along at a slightly disjointed pace and after only 12 minutes I'd have sworn I'd been watching it for half an hour.

It has a very impressive voice cast but I had trouble putting names to who I was hearing, so the credits resulted in a lot of "Oh yeah"s from me, and everyone seemed to be speaking in a tone that sounded as if they were reading the story to children rather than actually voicing the characters, this added a prentious top note to the whole film.

The music was superb through out but it actually only made things look a little weirder. Watching this was almost like having a strange and confusing dream. It took two attempts for me to watch it all as I origionally gave up on it after less than an hour, but I'd paid to rent it so I decided to go back and watch the rest later on.

I'm afraid this isn't one I'm going to recommend, but I will say this: It really did feel very Roald Dahl.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant, funny and bears repeat watching! July 10, 2010
P. Nash (Stansted, UK)
OK, first of all, I had never read the book before I saw the film, so I saw this film without any preconceptions. This film is loved by my 5 and 2 year old daughters, so I have probably seen it 50 times (and more), and I can honestly say I still enjoy it!!The characters are brilliant and there is constant humour in the script and visual play. George Clooney is perfect as Mr Fox and the cameos by Willem Dafoe (Its ma Ja-o-o-ob) as the psychotic rat and Jarvis Cocker as Petey, victim of a brilliant put-down by Bean (That's just weak songwriting Petey, you wrote a bad song) are worth the price of admission alone. Having read the book since, it is obvious that the book was the skeleton on which the film was built, but it wouldn't sustain a feature film. There are many changes in the film-the main characters are fleshed out and fully realised, many additional characters and many extra scenes are used to add colour and flavour, to such an extent that fans of the book should not view this as a film of the book at all. It is, however a lot of fun, with an all-star cast, the photography gives it a delightful overall feel, the soundtrack moves from 60s rock to a spaghetti western feel an the humour and action never lets up.

1 out of 5 stars

Dire June 27, 2010
L. Brown (England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

That's the only comment I can make. I saw this in the cinema and came out thinking I had seen The Royal Tenanbaums masquerading as characters from one of my favourite childhood books. The visual effects were good but the plot was dreadful, a complete abuse of the characters in one of Dahl's best books.

5 out of 5 stars

cussing brilliant June 25, 2010
Super Drumkit Dominator (Yorkshire)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I know a few people who have seen this film and not liked it - people I expected to love it. I suppose I can understand why they didn't like it; if they went into the film expecting Roald Dahl story, they got something different. To a large degree this is the Roald Dahl story we all love, but it is also very much a Wes Anderson film. If you haven't seen a Wes Anderson film, but are interested in seeing this, then expect proud dysfunctional families and oddball humour. This is a film for adults (for example, whenever a character would normally swear (in the context of an adult film) here they replace the swearing with the word 'Cuss' eg. "this is a cluster-cuss", "shut the cuss up" etc.) but is also visually very funny and would appeal to kids. This films tone is just right in my opinion. It's Wes Anderson doing Fantastic Mr Fox. Just as you'd imagine it, but probably funnier.
Also, and as usual, it has a brilliant soundtrack which is worth buying independently of the film.

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