Fantastic Mr. Fox

Another way of looking at it is that Wes Anderson did not bend his back to the genre, but instead the genre bent its back to Wes Anderson. A typical affair with flashy retro dramaturgy, a sly monotonous pace, an imaginative camera and content on the edge between a fairy tale and the philosophy of life over a morning bowl of cornflakes. If not for the middle, wherein the attempt at a psychological analysis of cute puppets goes a little beyond the real possibilities of Anderson's film, it is a flawless affair - old-fashioned, imaginative, waywardly...a film destined not to succeed commercially, but to be infinitely loved. Bravo, Wes! (28/03/2010)

I was really looking forward to another great animated movie, but what I got was a huge and ambitious disappointment. The story overall is interesting and original, but the director didn't quite pull it off in my opinion. It doesn’t have enough pace, the oddly conceived animation didn't appeal to me at all, and I found the drawn-out dialogue desperately angsty and unfunny, with the main characters sometimes solving problems trying to be as close to humans as possible. I really hate to slag films like this, but in this case, unfortunately, after the first viewing, I have no other choice. (17/07/2011)

A drama about a marital crisis, a portrait of a complex father-son relationship, and a regular heist movie in animated guise with affectionate comedic elements thrown in. Yes, it sounds wild and over-the-top, but Wes Anderson just knows how to do this. The fantastic dubbing of the main character by George Clooney and the near-perfect timing of most of the gags then puts Fantastic Mr. Fox in a completely different box than conventional animated films. But therein lies its greatest strength – in its originality, its bold multi-genre execution, and its typical "Andersonian" poetry, which (and I totally get it) may not appeal to everyone, but no one can deny the playfulness and powerful emotional experience. (11/08/2020)

Stop-motion puppet animation is always something that must be appreciated, especially if it has a meaningful story, which in this case it does, even though Roald Dahl's source material is definitely not ordinary. Perhaps it's not a film that's explosively funny, but it's a film that maintains Anderson's peculiar poetics. I enjoyed it. (09/12/2016)

The Great Cheese Robbery Anderson-style. So nothing for kids. In his fox guise Clooney is maybe even more charismatic than usual, Dafoe’s part is one of the unforgettable ones, plus Desplat à la Morricone, not cheaply stealing from him (not like many others), but developing on him fantastically. And in fact this entire movie is a fantastic celebration of fox, uh sorry, human fantasy and playfulness. (04/02/2010)