Comments on: FANTASTIC MR FOX [2009] review https://jasoncollin.org/2010/04/02/fantastic-mr-fox-2009-review/ The website for Jason Collin featuring his photography and movie & TV show reviews Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:27:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 By: Jason Collin https://jasoncollin.org/2010/04/02/fantastic-mr-fox-2009-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1161 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:27:58 +0000 http://jasoncollin.org/?p=1591#comment-1161 I didn’t think Mr. Fox was invulnerable, he got his tail shot off after all! He lost his home. I felt like there were big consequences for the things he did.

It was like Mrs. Fox said, you either accept that bad things that come with someone who has reckless tendencies, or you don’t. When he’s not reckless, he is damn fun around. All the other characters accept for his nephew were sticks in the mud. Mr. Fox enriched all their lives with spice. I can relate to that.

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By: MJG https://jasoncollin.org/2010/04/02/fantastic-mr-fox-2009-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:28:55 +0000 http://jasoncollin.org/?p=1591#comment-1159 I didn`t like this movie. I had the same feeling as you- the `is this really it?` moment. The rest of the time we were sitting there waiting for the story to begin. It felt like it never really did, just a bunch of stuff happening. About halfway through I started rooting for the `villains`, the three humans. They did nothing bad other than being rich. Of course they want to kill Mr. Fox, he`s a persistent thief. But they are so weak, or Fox is so strong, that they can`t catch him.

So the movie is not about that as the story. There`s no tension in it, so instead it`s just a poorly wrought frame for Anderson to stick stuff on. Any scene was ok, because nothing really added up to anything. Fox shows off, then again, then a bit more, then some more. Lots of dialogue happens, showing off, but none of it matters because we know Fox is invulnerable. He screws up the lives of all his friends but seems to never learn anything from it, instead vows that he`ll probably just do it again. He`s barely even apologetic.

Smug and self-satisfied, left a bitter taste in my mouth and the feeling that I`d just watch someone pat themselves on the back for 90 minutes.

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