Creative Story

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2012)

Roald Dahl was well known for his fantasy stories which were Twilight Zone type of tales. Mr. Fox was one of his children's books. As the name implies, the lead is a fox. George Clooney is the voice of Mr. Fox and his wife, Felicity(Meryl Streep) get caught in a trap while stealing from a farm. He then becomes a newspaper writer, and moves his family to a house at the base of a tree, despite the warnings of his lawyer Badger(Bill Murray). The tree is close to the farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three very mean and ambitious men. After Fox steals food from their farms, they shoot at him but only blow his tail off. They also remove the tree above his den with a bulldozer. They wait at the entrance with guns for the animals to come out, and nearing starvation, Fox digs tunnels to the farms and takes more food. The farmers flood the tunnels and Fox and his neighbors are forced to live in a sewer. The battle with the farmers continues and Clooney's Mr. Fox leads the opposition to the very end. The animation is excellent, and although I' m not the biggest fan of cartoons, I was amused by The Fantastic Mr. Fox.