Compared to what Pixar keeps churning out while constantly improving, I doubt stop-motion will ever beat that kind of mainstream extravagance.
I do not deny that the picture was beautiful and beautifully captured. I do not deny that the story originally by Roald Dahl was fabulous. Plus the fact that the platform for the storyline used one of the most intriguing subject to me, existentialism. But the bottomline was, I didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped I would.
George Clooney I thought was a brilliant choice for Mr. Fox. There's a certain calmness, suave and smooth that his voice can roll into one's ears. And a lot of his banter thrown back and forth with other characters by Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Wallace Wolodarsky brought out a lot of great humour throughout the movie. But again, personally, the stop-motion capture limited a lot of what the scenes could have been.
Director and writer Wes Anderson kept his style in the storytelling and, for a stop-motion picture, he kept it intersting and brought out the best. But I'm just not a big fan.
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