Fantastic Mr Fox?.......Not so fantastic

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2010)

As a child I loved this book along with Little Women and the full set of Narnia books. I was interested in seeing it, sadly I was met with an abomination of a movie that really had little relevance to the book at all.
It is sad when a classic British book such as Fantastic Mr Fox is Amercanised as this has been. They could have made it classically British by using English actors to do the voices, they could have kept the story faithful by adhering more closely to the book. But, they didn't. Instead they have used American actors and gung-ho music to make it more like an over-the-top adventure movie with some poor attempts at humour. It's obvious the market they were aiming at and does not take a lot of thought to figure it out.
If Roald Dahl had still been alive I do not think he would ever have allowed this film to be made, let alone released as no real justice has been done to the book at all. A real shame. Do yourself a favour and read what is a really great book. Whatever you do, avoid this heap of junk of a movie at all costs.
I've given it 1/10 because you can't go any lower.