After promising his pregnant wife, Mrs Fox (Meryl Streep) he'll refrain from his fox raiding ways to take up a job as a journalist, the erstwhile Mr Fox (George Clooney) moves his home from a den to an oak tree situated beside three of the biggest, baddest farmers in the county - Boggis and Bunce and Bean. There, with his very odd son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) grown-up and his nephew Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson) moved in, he resumes his chicken stealing ways. This inevitably leads to a war between the farmers and Mr Fox which draws in the entire animal community living beneath the ground. Directed by Wes Anderson and using stop-action animation - a decidedly brave move that works in a world of computer drawn animation films - Fantastic Mr. Fox takes Roald Dahl's much loved characters on a new adventure that is endearing, slightly odd, and wickedly funny.
My rating 7 out of 10.
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