Tag: Roald Dahl

Fantastic Mr. FoxYear: 2009Rating: PGLength: 87 minutes / 1.45 hours There's a point in a famous director's filmography that may make you scratch your head and wonder why they pivoted into something so different. Hindsight is always an interesting way to see how the change in genre or form eventually brought on the full realization of the director's style. For Wes Anderson, his previous films had begun to develop into his distinctive style, but Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) seemed to cement its aesthetic for all future Anderson movies. Hearkening back to the original stop-motion effects from the early years of cinema, Fantastic Mr. Fox is full of frenetic energy—partly from the fur covered creatures voiced by plenty of famous actors. These aren't clay molded stop-motion models like something from Aardman or Laika. Instead, there's a sort of jointed stiffness that is played to great effect by Anderson's love of straight lines and centering on the frame. That Anderson would eventually return to...