Featuring a stellar voice cast including George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Jarvis Cocker, Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) uses stop motion animation (with help from Altrincham’s Mackinnon and Saunders) to bring Roald Dahl’s fable of animals triumphing in adversity to the big screen. Mr. Fox (Clooney), a fox with a high opinion of himself, struggles to reconcile his chicken-stealing habits whilst settling down to family life. When a trio of wicked farmers relocate to his woods, the temptation to show how fantastic he is proves too great…
Review
“Genuinely original: a silly, hilarious and oddly profound adaptation for adult-sized children. ****” Ian Nathan, Empire
“Hugely enjoyable, frequently funny comedy with delightfully quirky animation and a superb voice cast, but the biggest surprise is just how perfectly it sits alongside Anderson’s previous films. ****” Matthew Turner, View London
“Playful, highly controlled production design is another of Anderson’s signatures, and he lends the same, hip visual edge to animation as he does to live action, although unique to this film is a purist’s approach to stop-motion techniques and materials […] There are familiar voices aplenty (Murray, Wilson, Schwartzman) and a typically astute soundtrack of music from the Stones to Delerue. Like much of Anderson’s work, it’s cool on the eye and cool on the heart.” Dave Calhoun, Time Out
“Anderson defiantly presents his one in old-school stop-motion animation, making it look like something by Oliver Postgate or Jan Svankmajer. […] With co-writer Noah Baumbach, Anderson has created a movie with that oddball quality that I associate with both him and Michael Gondry: a quirky-homespun aesthetic with a meticulous foregrounding of knowing detail. He takes the story […] and reimagines this feisty family as exactly the sort of amiably dysfunctional yet pin-smart bunch that he depicted in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. ****” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian