Roald Dahl, Meet Wes Anderson

For those curious what an animated Wes Anderson movie is like, here’s your answer: a whole lot like an unanimated Wes Anderson movie. Tricked out with painstakingly crafted, obsessively detailed stop-motion animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox, adapted and expanded from the Roald Dahl story about a fox engaged in a battle of wits with three creepy farmers and his own id, fits squarely into Anderson’s canon: There’s moping, deadpan comedy; overstuffed, perfectly curated set design; an eclectic, strummy soundtrack, pathos; and corduroy. There are some thrilling set pieces, chase scenes and acrobatics in Fox, but there is also a whole lot of chatter. Thankfully, there’s also a whole lot of heart.

Mr. Fox, voiced by George Clooney, is undergoing a midlife crisis, trying to reconcile being a father and husband with his inner “wild animal.” (The movie’s best running joke is how the suit wearing, newspaper reading, extremely genteel Mr. Fox eats—it all ends up on the floor.) Mrs. Fox, voiced by Meryl Streep, has asked her hubby to curtail his foxy, chicken-stealing ways now that they have a (mopey, adolescent) son. Mr. Fox fails to comply, ultimately endangering his family and community by wrangling with framers Boggis, Bunce and Bean one too many times. This tension, between being a wild animal versus a well-behaved one, is one kids know a thing or two about, but most of Mr. Fox’s psychological dilemma will fly right over their head—when it’s not boring them. What won’t bore them are Mr. Fox’s daring capers and inspired digging and, more generally, the movie’s big-hearted sweetness.

Fear Factor: (Like all Roald Dahl, there’s some unsettling characters, especially the determined, crazed, grotesque-looking Mr. Bean.)
Heart: (Ultimately this is a movie about a really cute fox and his really cute friends coming together to save one another from not- so -cute humans. Awwwww.)
Attitude: (There’s a bratty, disaffected teenager on a quest to prove himself.)
Psst: This is the second movie of the season in which Willem Dafoe encounters a talking fox: In the seriously not kid-friendly Antichrist, Dafoe runs into a fox chewing on its own guts that tells him, in Poltergeist voice, “Chaos Rreigns!” In Fantastic Mr. Fox, Dafoe voices a gleefully wicked rat, Mr. Fox mortal enemy.
If you like this: More Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson, plus Wallace and Gromit.

Willa Paskin Writer, pop culture junkie

Photo Credit: Still from Fantastic Mr. Fox courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures.

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