After the Fox

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2010)

Highly entertaining fox(y) caper with more of the director's quirks than Dahl's left intact, i.e. there's always enough room left for strange side glimpses into the character's spleens while the speedy narrative itself feels slightly mechanical and thin after a while. The good voice cast is of great help, though.
But the most interesting aspect of Wes Anderson's first-time foray into feature-length stop-motion animation (though there were some animated sequences in earlier pics) is certainly the clash between wild-life instincts and a civilized way of living. The anthropomorphism we're used to in most animated movies surely gets scrutinized in this pic.
As with all of Anderson's work, likably off-key, but somewhat distancing and too self-absorbed on the whole.
6 out of 10 dumb opossums