Fantastic Mr. Fox Looks (Wait For It) Fantastic
Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer, you guys:
Oh, this looks great! It has such a nice homemade feel to it, like Wes Anderson got together with George Clooney and Bill Murray on a rainy Sunday afternoon and they put the whole thing together themselves. You remember during the 2004 election when the Democrats tried to take back the word "liberal" and return it to its proper usage as an adjective describing a particular political philosophy rather than a loathsome epithet? That didn't work! But I feel like this movie is basically doing the same thing for the word "twee." Gone are the bilious days of the early-to-mid '00s when "twee" was a chuckled insult casually lobbed in the face of the skinny and pale. Now it is a badge of honor.
"High five!"
--Stuart Murdoch
Seriously, though, if this movie is as good as the trailer looks, it could become the stuff of legend. Between this and Where the Wild Things Are it seems increasingly clear that the revolution will not be computer generated in South Korea!
Posted by Gabe at 4:15 PM in Trailer
Tags: Bill Murray | Children | Fantastic Mr. Fox | George Clooney | Jason Schwartzman | Meryl Streep | Owen Wilson | Roald Dahl | Wes Anderson
George Clooney's voice is a little distracting, but otherwise yay! Reclaim "twee" you guys.
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I had to watch the trailer twice to make sure I wasn't missing something. You never can tell but I don't think it looks that good.
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Visually, I was just not that into it either. It's cool that it's Wes Anderson and everything, but there are people out there that know how to do this better. Hopefully the voice acting and the story will save it for me, because I would hate for this thing to have to move forward without my approval.
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i agree. i have no interest in seeing this based on this trailer. probably still will, since it's wes anderson. but, meh.
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I think it is the dead pan delivery on the voice acting... it works great with Anderson's style in live action, but so far it doesn't look like it translates well into animation, particularly children's animation, when the characters are meant to be a little over the top.
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What's with the "from the author who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" nonsense? Like we've never heard of Roald Dahl
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Don't you TEST me, 20th Century Fox!
That bugged me, too. Apparently audiences hate literature more than ever. We didn't need this kind of hand-holding for Witches, did we?
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From the beloved author of "Lamb to the Slaughter."
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oh my god. thank you so much for referencing a ridiculous, brutal roald dahl short story. I love you.
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Henry Sugar FTW
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I know!! fucking ridiculous!
I've always been too obsessed with Roald Dahl (my first internet search ever, at the age of 9, was "Roald Dahl fan club," and upon reaching one I learned that he was dead), and I constantly imagine moments in popular culture that are causing him to turn in his grave. I think this trailer is one of them. and I don't think Roald Dahl would be happy about the George Clooney involvement either.
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Agreed. "From the author who wrote that one story about a drink which had bubbles that went DOWN and caused you to fart yourself into the air" would have been more compelling.
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Ocean's 14: This time, with animals!
Except so much better than that sounds
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Yay! This looks fun. But yeah, Clooney voice is jarring.
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wow, I was just researching some other movie and this popped up, and I'm like - OMG a tip for Gabe! I never have those! Then i checked to make sure you hadn't already written about it and whoops.
I even said something like "no tweemo" in the email. You sir, are correct: twee like If You're Feeling Sinister, not like... anything else that's generally called twee.
But i'm thinking while I love the visual style, I fully expect the movie to kinda suck. In that it will tell a story that might as well be housed in any old computer-generated craptasia.
(Dammit Anderson, after coming back a LITTLE stronger with Darjeeling... OK I'm going to reserve judgment, and put it in my lovingly hand-woven jute box that holds my other miniature personal effects from the 90s.)
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i don't know what you did with the headline there, but it goes way above and beyond a pun.
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Battle between Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze...who wins? I'm betting on Jonze.
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i'm betting on we
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"I can fit through there. Wanna know why? Because Im LITTLE"
and with that I am beguiled.
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At first, I forgot this was Wes Anderson and thought this looked a lot like something Michael Gondry would make. Either way, it looks great.
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Ronald Dalhhlad who? Don't you mean Stephenie Meyer, acclaimed voice of the youth?? I only read vampire books. Not this talking animal garbage. Only good things. Like vampires. I'm 14. Vampires.
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Sadly, kids don't know how good they're getting it -- Fantastic Mr. Fox, Where The Wild Things Are, even the recent Harry Potter movie -- these are looking to be classic films... but they'll be lining up to see Twilight instead... Ungrateful little bastards.
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Not so fast, Potter still outgrosses Twilight
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You're right, I stand corrected. Let's replace that example with Coraline.
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It's amazing how, even in animated anthropomorphic form, this looks, very much, like a Wes Anderson movie. Cinematography, typeface, Bill Murray - it's all there.
Also, can't wait to see the claymation Jarvis Cocker.
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Um, yeah. I dunno. That looked pretty awful to me. I've been known to be wrong though.
Wait, no I haven't. It's even in my name.
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There's just no facial expression. That's what makes it look weird to me.
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This movie must feel like what it feels like for a Muslim to visit the holy land of Mecca for Furries.
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""I can fit through there. Wanna know why? Because Im LITTLE" "
That's what he said!
Also, twee apparently means that animals animated to look like maggots are crawling under their fur (re-watch it, you'll see what i mean ;___; )
The book was great though, so maybe this won't be hopeless.
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Finally! I've been waiting for hipsters and furries to come together.
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I was waiting for a Wes Anderson-furry collision to come soon. Unfortunately my script for Plushmore went unheeded.
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Oh lord - here we go again with the anthropomorphisation.
And of course foxes are best friends with bunnies...
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The twee-est wittle wevolution ever. :3
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How did they get Danny ocean for this?
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surprised Wes Anderson's name is never shown or mentioned. Of course, the kids know more who george clooney and jason schwartzmann are than Wes. As a fan of Wes's work, this looks too kid-ish but I'll probably watch it.
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okay... I just watched the trailer again and, oops, I am absolutely going to see this, and probably like it. The kids too. The quiet in the way it's presented doesn't particularly make an exciting trailer (the fact that it's trying so hard is the problem), but I think will make a really great movie.
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Isn't it a little soon for a new fleet foxes album?
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Whoa, calm down, Gabe. This looks good, but nowhere close to "stuff of legend." I'll still see it, though.
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it is high time america recognized the genius of stop motion animation with furry creatures...HIGH TIME!! If someone makes a Paddington Bear movie in the same style I'm going to make PeeWee Herman in a movie theater look like Abigail Breslin's more adorable cousin.
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All of the blood that just rushed to nerds' penises across the world is enough to fill three Grand Canyons.
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Wes Anderson bets a Fantastic Mr. Fox. It's only a matter of time before Michel Gondry sees his Fantastic Mr. Fox and raises him a Berenstain Bear or four.
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Yea, fuck koreans.
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"Lookin' for a fox."
I don't get it.
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This looks amazing, but the one thing this does make me feel a little iffy about this is the fact that the very fact that this is animation (and also somewhat for kids) means we lose a little of that Wes Anderson subtlety we all know/love/try to inject in every goddamn "indie" film since then, no matter how fitting it is. The motions are more pronounced, the lines are enunciated, etc.
Of course I might be saying that because I'm judging this by the trailer, which by nature tend to make even the best movies look like tired cliches. I remember thinking Life Aquatic looked lame in the preview, but when I watched it, it was...better than I expected.
The fact that Wes clearly didn't direct this trailer is also evident in that last song choice. How a filmmaker known for some of the most kickass soundtracks lets this one slip by is beyond me.
I'll shut up now.
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I'm not sure what there is NOT to like about this movie. Who doesn't love this story? And what's with all the snarky snarks about foxes and rabbits being friends? Like every movie should be based on SCIENCE FACT? And the comments about it being for nerds or something...like I don't know what the deal is overe there, but in the UK it has never been 'uncool' or whatever you kids are saying these days, to like Roald Dahl. He is planet the best and has all the good idea jeans on at once! Like I know the gum is all about the snarky sacrastic humour and I LOVE IT FOR THAT, but c'mon you guys. What about nostalgiaforthestoriesofouryouthgum YEH? YAY for this movie =)
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It looks pretty great to me, and I dig the animation, too.
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