Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is for unguided children and adults nostalgic for return to childhood's loved books ..two profitable target audiences!

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2012)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is for unguided children and adults nostalgic for return to childhood's loved books ..two profitable target audiences!
Nobody not already acquainted with the famous Roald Dahl authored children't book would seek out or put up with this movie.
It doesn't stand on it's own.
It's a "nostalgia vehicle" cashing in on a famous children's book.
It has a "name brand."
Performers of fame and advancing old age (George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray....... all the stars are over 50 or 60) like projects like Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) because "voice over" work is easy and quick.
The main stars likely spent a day...two at the most..."doing" this movie.
No cameras, no costumes, no memorizing lines and scripts......just read the printed word you hold in your hand and likely never saw before an hour or less prior to your voice over performance.
Wear comfortable clothes. Do it all sitting down. Get paid big and get it over with fast.
Nice work if you can get it, and George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Bill Murray "got it." Good for you guys. You all deserve the money and glory you got....nobody ever gets enough of those things, including you!
But a great, or even a good movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox is definitely not.
It's for people not raised on true and worthy children's classics....people who read the "pop," best selling commercial children's authors big in middle and late 20th Century America and England.
Judy Bloom ("Blume?"), Dr. Seuss, and Roald Dahl.
Kiddy sections of public libraries are packed with the books of these best selling, no-qual authors.
Oh tempora, o mores!
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