Sunday, June 27, 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The film Wes Anderson was meant to make. His films had been getting more and more cartoonish, so this makes perfect sense. A film that can be enjoyed by wise children and hipsters alike. It was cute, then got cuter, then got annoyingly cute, then sickeningly cute, then back to cute again. A snickery, wink-wink attitude creeps in here and there threatening to pop this pretty balloon, the same tone that ruins a lot of children's movies of late (why are so many filmmakers afraid of innocence and optimism?) It also suffers from "third act lag." Nevermind. I thought it was nearly wonderful, and a few degrees better than another great kid's movie made by an auteur, "Where the Wild Things Are."
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...should be seen and not heard...the sort of film that I wished was in any language other than English. Wonderful visual craft dulled by miscast actors standing around wearing headphones. I suspect that the all temporary hipster preciousness of the dialog will keep this from being remembered for very long.
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