#3 – Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson
Director: Wes Anderson
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Most family-oriented movies and animated movies in the Pixar mold base movies around their target audience (children) and provide winks and nods to the adults watching so they can follow along.
This movie almost felt the opposite.
Don’t get me wrong, kids will enjoy this movie too, but the excellent performances, witty dialogue, great voice acting and subject matter will likely click more with adults than the kids they might be bringing in tow.
Some have called this Clooney’s best performance of 2009. That’s pretty high praise. It's also easy to see why it could be the case.
If nothing else, give Wes Anderson a nod for venturing into the shaky ground of stop motion animation. It’s as much fun to watch as any of his previous films and includes more Jason Schwartzman awkwardness.
By the way, does any actor on the planet do anything better than Schwartzman does awkward?
Final Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Friday, January 8, 2010
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