# The Fantastic Mr. Fox (movie) Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363 "2011-01-29T01:49:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363/21 "2011-03-08T20:13:01Z")
I’ll agree with everyones “weird…but interesting” thought. When I first watched it I was about 3/4 of the way through before someone came over and finished the movie with me. Her first thought of it was “Not bad…cool looking…kinda weird…but not bad”. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363/22 "2011-03-08T20:20:50Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Very interesting–my problem with it was that it wasn’t nearly far enough out in left field, that it took the roguish lifestyle of the original story and turned it into a lower-middle-class exploration of insecure masculinity. The art direction was of course phenomenal, and it had some funny bits (I agree that the hoedown scene was brilliant), but the central theme of the movie was so totally trapped in Anderson’s navel-gazing neuroses that I just couldn’t stomach it. I think my issue wasn’t so much with the plot, which was fine if a little understated, but the presentation. Everyone except Fox and the farmers did their best to deaden their voices as much as possible, taking all inflection out or putting in unusual inflection, and scenes were constructed so as to hint to me that ‘this is supposed to be humorous’ either in a goofy or deadpan way, but there was no joke there. I love deadpan humor, but I got the distinct feeling something was being communicated that I wasn’t getting. I suppose this is the kind of movie that gets labeled ‘quirky’. I don’t really get quirky movies very well. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363/23 "2011-03-08T21:15:17Z")
Great movie. Clooney’s timing and delivery as Mr. Fox reminds me of his character, Everett in the Coen brothers’, O’ Brother Where Art Thou? He should do more comedy films. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363/24 "2011-03-08T21:28:19Z")
When they were driven underground I half expected Mr. Fox to exclaim “Damn, we’re in a tight spot!” ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363/25 "2011-03-08T21:29:12Z")
I caught it recently on HBO & I cussing liked it. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363/26 "2011-03-08T21:36:57Z")
I’m with left Hand Of Dorkness here. And when you compare it to a movie like "Coraline’ it’s like the ogdamn special olympics of stopmotion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fantastic-mr-fox-movie-appreciation-thread/569363.md?page=1)