Comments on: Fantastic Mr. Fox Review

By: semblance

semblance — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:00:15 +0000

Well, I’m in a small Texan town and it just came to the dollar theatre (: (: (:
which means I can see it nine times for the price of one regular ticket!

It’s a beautiful movie, too, in all the sense of the word ‘beautiful.’ Not always happy-fun-rainbows like a traditional kiddie movie. But absolutely beautiful. It has some funny moments and some touching moments. It’s like an art film without feeling like an art film.

Oh, and I think Rat is a superb villain. An enormous skeletal rodent with long fangs and pupil-less red eyes– the stuff of nightmares. The scene where Mr. Fox gives Rat his last drink of cider is haunting. I would think that that scene’s enough to overpower any “positive” messages about drinking…

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:42:07 +0000

It’s in wide release right now with over 2000 screens. I don’t think it’s going to expand any further than that.

By: drewsifer

drewsifer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:31:39 +0000

Any word on how far this is going to be released, I.E. theatrically?

By: Maopheus

Maopheus — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:09:59 +0000

Some of the shots in this movie would have been pretty good even for live motion and complicated to execute with a lot of characters, like that long pan during the dinner scene. It’s classic Anderson though. The movie is a good blend of the original story and his characteristically quirky style of film-making.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:47:21 +0000

I agree. Best animated film of the year, nudges Coraline out a little, but certainly fascinating that the two STOP MOTION projects came out ahead of the standard CGI pics. Curious to see how the 2D Disney Princess&Frog comes out. It made a killing this weekend on two screens (probably the most ever, for a 2 screen release).

By: Falsk

Falsk — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:00:28 +0000

It’s the definitely the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long time. I loved the animation, the art direction, and everything about it. I took a stop motion class once which just enhanced my respect for what is a really fucking DIFFICULT line of work.

In my mind this beats out “Up” and “Ponyo” as best animated film… but who knows what the “Academy” will think.

Anyway. Hurray for $5 well spent!

By: my penis is a vagina

my penis is a vagina — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:18:19 +0000

good review

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:05:41 +0000

I have the movie “The Hawk is Dying”! (Michelle Williams is in it.) I didn’t appreciate the film. I haven’t watched the special features, yet.

By: Goon

Goon — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:28:41 +0000

Definitely the best animated film of the year to me.

“You wrote a bad song, Petey” is the new “Be still, Cody”

By: xego

xego — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:59:05 +0000

Great article Sean! You have a good ear for prose…(Go ahead and laugh you Forum Jackals if you had one you would know what that means…) I have read several of your articles on film junk and thought they were all quite good. I found a couple of things recently that you might want to check out. First on youtube there are some segments of Hunter S Thompson talking to Charlie Rose about being a prose writer that are excellent. Second, buy a copy of (or borrow from Jay the archivist) “The hawk is dying.” In the special features there is a segment “The art of Harry Crews” it’s really good. This is also a great movie by the way and might make some good film junk conversation…or perhaps for the Movie Club Podcast…hope you keep up with that one. Too bad the book is out of print “the hawk is dying” that is I would like to read it. Anyway I appreciate all the work that goes into this site…good luck…x

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:03:07 +0000

I figured this was going to end up a good movie.

By: kyriakos

kyriakos — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:50:15 +0000

So its like stuart little in suit..