Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl books always seem to get movie adaptations. From Matilda, to The Witches, to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. So making a movie out of Fantastic Mr. Fox seemed like a natural move. So let's get started in my review of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

The film opens in what I am assuming is somewhere in North America in the year......something, where we see Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) walking home but Mr. Fox decides to take a short cut home through a local bird farm where he steals some birds but they end up getting trapped. Cut to two years later (twelve fox years) where we see they escaped the trap and they have a son named Ash (Jason Schwartzman). Mr. Fox has given up bird stealing and has started writing a newspaper column. He is also in the market for a new house. He is looking at a big tree on a hill as his new home where he meats the building super Kylie the opossum (Wallace Wolodarsky). Mr. Fox consults his lawyer, Badger (Bill Murray), who says that the house is located right next to the farms of three of the most dangerous farmers, Walter Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Nathan Bunce (Hugo Guinness), and Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon) Despite this Fox goes ahead and buys the house. Mean while Fox's nephew Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson) comes to visit them.



Now that they have moved near three of the most dangerous farmers Mr. Fox wants to get back in the business of stealing from farmers with the help of Kylie. First they break into Boggis' chicken farm and steal several chickens, then they break into Bunce's goose farm, and finally Bean's apple cider cellar. The farmers catch on to what's going on and they decide to shoot Mr. Fox. They only end up shooting off his tail and then they decide to buy some construction equipment and dig up the tree. The Fox Family dig an escape tunnel and hide out underground. It turns out that the construction equipment drove a lot of animals underground as well but Fox comes up with a plan. They tunnel their way to a flint mine to hide out in, but on the way they steal all the food from the three farms. When the farmers find out that they're farms have been robbed again, they get really mad and come up with a new plan. Meanwhile Ash and Kristofferson try to steal Mr.Fox's tail back but they find out that it isn't in the house and that Bean is wearing it as a tie so they try to escape but Kristofferson is captured.

***SPOILER ALERT STOP HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT THE END RUINED***

Mr. Fox comes up with a rescue plan. First he writes the farmers a note saying that we will surrender himself if they give back Kristofferson. But it turns out he sets up a trap where the other animals throw flaming pine cones at the farmers to create a distraction while Fox, Kylie, and Ash steal a motorcycle and head to where Kristofferson is being held. They break in only to be confronted by a rabbid beagle which Mr. Fox distracts while Ash tries to break Kristofferson out. The farmers catch up only to be chased away by their own beagle. They Fox Family along with the rest of the animals now live in the sewer and they have plenty of food due to a secret entrance under a super market. The End.

***SPOILERS OVER KEEP READING***

This is a great movie. The animation is pretty good and it has some of the best stop motion water. The actors all seem to be good in their parts and it is a very funny movie. So all in all I do recommend this movie. See you next time.