![]() Michael Gambon shines as the villainous Mr. Fox for heaven’s sake, and Anderson stalwarts Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, and Adrien Brody are all there. The actors that Anderson assembled give everything a huge boost, with no less than George Clooney playing the titular role. It is a big-budget movie, painstakingly made over the course of several years, yet at the same time, it feels like you’re watching a talented child create dioramas in a shoebox. They come alive with their fur constantly moving bristling. You can reach through the screen and join them. The charming effect pulls you further in, and makes you feel like the characters (and the world they are living in) is tactile. This doesn’t take you out of the movie the opposite happens instead. Dahl’s characters are given life like never before, mostly because Anderson chose to animate the film using (primarily) stop motion. Fox is certainly full of warmth and fun, but if any of the characters heard you call them cute (or that dreaded descriptor, “twee”) then they’d bite your finger off. This is true of all of his movies before this, as well as after this. It is born out of darkness and melancholy, with a solid baseline of craft. If you didn’t like his work, then this movie may have converted you.Īnderson’s whimsy is not cute, no matter what some people say. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you were already into Anderson’s movies, then this was a joyful elevation. ![]() His whimsy and humor do wonders for the tale of Mr. We’d seen many takes on Dahl over the years, but none of those takes complimented Dahl’s work as well as Anderson’s does. A similar thing happened when Wes Anderson took on Roald Dahl for the first time in 2009, and the result is Fantastic Mr. We’ve seen the tale depicted before, but not with del Toro pulling the animated strings. Guillermo del Toro’s version of Pinocchio is upon us, and his dark stylings look to be well suited to the story. It is always interesting when one of our favorite directors steps into the world of animation. ![]()
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