Fantastic Mr Fox

Im not sure about this movie. I saw it at the beginning of the week with a few friends. From what i sae on the trailers it looked really good. I love stop motion animation, films like corpse bride and nightmare before christmas spring to mind, and series like robot chicken. I love all these things and admire the work that goes into them. Im not saying that i dont admire the work that went into the making of Fantastic Mr Fox, it has clearly had a lot of work put into it, i just didnt like the story that went with it. I know its a Roald Dahl classic, but the producers of this movie have made changes, probably to make it appeal more to the audience, or what they think will appeal to the audience. For me it didint work im afriad.

However there were certain parts I liked about it as a movie. For starters just the fact that it is stop motion animation saves it for me. Also the style of stop motion that was used appeald to me. It has an unfinished feel to it. The animation hasnt been smoothed out to look life like, it has a subtle jerky motion to it, almost like missing out every other frame, and i personally really like this method. It's the same with 'The Nightmare before Christmas' as apposed to 'Corpse Bride', both made by the same director, Tim Burton, but both with subtle differences that makes them a world apart from eachother.

On the whole i think it's a must see movie if you like animation movies, and it does have some funny moments. But if your a die hard Roald Dahl fan or just not that into animation then steer clear or it, wait till it comes out on DVD and then rent it for cheaper