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Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Parents, outsidet of some smoking I don't see anything really wrong. Recommended for all ages. |
I admit that I’ve never been much of a fan of Wes Anderson. I get why his movies are popular, but outside of a mild curiosity there’s not much to them. The stories, characters, and dialog all tend to be too quirky for their own good, creating a bit of a disconnect between what’s on screen. Now he’s made “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” an animated film that is very different to what we’re used to seeing. The story is simple: Mr. Fox (Academy Award-winner George Clooney) is married to Mrs. Fox (Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep). Mr. Fox was once the top chicken stealer in the woods, but finding out his wife was pregnant decided to take a safer job where he writes articles for the local newspaper.
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Soon this becomes too boring though and he decides to go back to secretly go back to chicken stealing, which does nothing but annoy the owners of the farms. From this point on there are multiple storylines about animals revolting, a father-and-son relationship crisis, and various other goofy things. This in itself is not worth discussing though. No, what’s worth discussing is how much this works in it’s own weird way. If anything “Fantastic Mr. Fox” sort of makes a point that Wes Anderson probably should have been making animated movies all this time. His quirky sense of humor and storytelling is very clunky in live action films, but in animated form it comes off as brilliant.
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Or, at least as brilliant as it can be. While the movie has great dialog and is a lot of fun to watch the storylines are less then compelling. Looking back I think I appreciated what was being said more then what was happening. There are a few dramatic moments in the film that fall flat because we’re not emotionally invested in anything. There’s also something strange to be said about a movie based off a popular children’s book, advertised to kids, and looks like a kids film is actually anything but. I’m not a kid anymore, but I wouldn’t be too surprised to discover if kids themselves find themselves a bit bored. Kids don’t need slapstick and fart jokes to be entertained, but the movie is too surreal to capture their attention visually, and I haven’t known too many kids to pay attention to heavy dialog.
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This is more in tune with Dreamworks “Antz”: Fairly inoffensive for kids to watch, but has more appeal to adults none-the-less. Still the movie looks great, the script is awesome, and the voice actors are clearly having fun with all this. I’m not sure if this is going to go down as one of animations finest moments, but it’s certainly interesting and I was entertained, so overall I guess I have no real complaints about the film that I can think of. And if you’re reading this Wes, I’m totally serious that you should probably focus on animation and leave the live action stuff behind for other directors.
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