Fox (Meryl Streep), but he’s not finding much satisfaction in his new life as a “newspaperman.” (Then again, who is these days?) When the couple and their sad-sack, misfit son (Anderson regular Jason Schwartzman) move under a tree overlooking the bountiful farms of Boggis, Bunce and Bean, Mr.
Fox has retired from stealing at the request of Mrs. “Why a fox?” wonders our hero (voiced by George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven mode). Anderson maintains that theme while adding his usual, damaged family dynamics and existential identity crises. Dahl’s story, which centered on a charming fox who gets into an escalating battle with the three gluttonous farmers he has been stealing from, was about the ugliness of greed – on the part of all parties. That is certainly true of the 1970 Roald Dahl novella on which Fantastic Mr. Of course, that’s partly because all of these were made for adults as well, or at least have adult sensibilities. The way things are looking, there is a chance movies made for young audiences could take up half of my 2009 top ten list. It’s a kids’ movie too, by the way, only the latest in a string of dazzling children’s features released this year ( Coraline, Up, Ponyo, Where the Wild Things Are). This is a triumph on two fronts, an animation masterpiece from one of America’s finest filmmakers. Yet that’s selling both Anderson and the art form short. Fox as a backhanded compliment, suggesting this meticulously detailed piece of stop-motion animation is the correct (and by implication, only) venue for his particular, persnickety touch. Wes Anderson critics have been praising Fantastic Mr.
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