I finally got to see Fantastic Mr Fox the other night and it was worth the wait. I like Wes Anderson's films a lot but I often find the storylines to be a little weak. The quirkiness of the production design and the idiosyncrasies of the characters for me are his forte and so I felt that his interpretation of Dahl's story worked particularly well as there was already a good story there for him to work with. I loved that it had been animated using stop-motion techniques rather than CGI and that the animation wasn't slick and perfect but a little bit off beat. My favourite character was the Foxes' son, Ash, with his cantankerous adolescent attitude. And of course I loved all the typical Anderson details like Mrs Fox's pockets in her dress for paint brushes and scissors and spoons, that she was a landscape painter who paints thunderstorms and hurricanes, that the Foxes drank coffee and from a Bialetti espresso maker, their maniacal dancing style and the juice boxes they find in the supermarket.
(Images from indiemoviesonline.com and filmofilia.com)
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