Fantastic Mr Fox

[undyingking]

I had been vaguely aware that there was a new, animated film of Fantastic Mr Fox around, but it wasn't until just recently that I realized it was by Wes Anderson. So I went to see it, with T, last night

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[secondhand_rick]

You need to add: "I'll see it but probably not until it's free on one of the movie channels."

I'm not entirely convinced by Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums being a pretty good example of why. As a film it felt to me like someone trying to make The Hotel New Hampshire and failing; the oddities and quirkiness just seemed too contrived and self-conscious to really charm.

[undyingking]

Mm, that was definitely the weakest of the three I cited -- I haven't seen Bottle Rocket or The Darjeeling Limited, but have heard them to be respectively pretty good and complete rubbish).

I think of the three, Fox is closest to the Steve Zissou feel.

[secondhand_rick]

Hmm. I have seen Bottle Rocket but can remember virtually nothing about it which is never a good sign. The Darjeeling Limited was a rambling sequence of events, rather than a story, and not an especially interesting rambling sequence of events at that. It was also, I felt, trying too hard to be quirky.

I've not seen Rushmore or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, so if they're considered better than his other films I'll watch them before I finalise judgement on Mr. Anderson.

[undyingking]

By me, they're considered better than Tenenbaums, certainly. But maybe some of the other people here know more / different (he wondered hopefully).

[mizzykitty]

I saw it ages ago in one of those preview screenings, and half the animation wasn't even complete. But I really enjoyed it even then! I'm interested to see how the finished product is, and how different it was from the initial stages.

[undyingking]

Interesting! I heard that an early version had Jarvis Cocker narrating in voiceover, did you have that?

[metame]

I do. Right now.

(This House is Condemned - on Spotify's "Artist Radio" for Pulp)

[undyingking]

Oho! I shall check it out forthwith.

[bibliogirl]

If you liked Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you will like this film.

Hm. I liked Life Aquatic a lot, but thought the Royal Tenenbaums was a complete waste of a couple of hours I'll never have back...

[undyingking]

I did say "or", not "and" ;-)

[cuthbertcross]

Well, babysaxon went to see it with the childminders over half term, and said it was fun.

She didn't comment on the dialogue though, apparently it was "about a mister fox who likes to eat chickens even though he's actually a goody".

[undyingking]

The eating is one of the very funny bits. Another is the subtle cursing, which hopefully she didn't notice.

[mothsmoonflower]

Um,how can you memorise dialogue like that? Scary.

[undyingking]

I can't, but IMDB can.