“AN INSTANT CLASSIC!” –Chicago Reader
Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited), creator of this rascally stop-motion fable, turns out to be born to make animated films. Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearing fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk. Yet Mr. Fox (George Clooney), Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), and their son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), inhabit a world that's disarmingly, well, lifelike. With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please! --Entertainment WeeklyWINNER! BEST ANIMATED FEATURE! --New York Film Critics
"THE BEST MOVIE OF 2009!" --Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Cast Voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, and Jarvis Cocker