Beautifully Done...

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2010)

To call Fantastic Mr.Fox a children's movie is a disservice to the film. This is just as adult as most of Wes Anderson's R rated features, in the sense of the maturity of the plot and character development. The only thing missing from the movie is profanity, which isn't even really that extreme in any of his movies anyway.
Mr.Anderson seems to have an obsession with amateur criminals, and this is also prevalent in Fantastic Mr.Fox. Bottle Rocket was the defining movie for a group of idiots trying to be criminals, but even in The Life Aquatic you see the clumsy theft of the sea lab and the ridiculous rescue attempt. In Fantastic Mr.Fox, most of the crimes go fairly well until the consequences are made evident. Ash's attempt to free Kristofferson was an incredibly memorable scene in this movie because of the unprofessionalism that it presented.
What was great in this movie was that the characters were so real that you almost forgot they were animals. My only complaint about the film is that a lot of kids will see it and feel confused and possibly not entertained due to the dry humor that it uses. This was a major bonus for me, as I am a huge fan of dry humor, but children may not understand and a lot of adults don't find it funny.