DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer: Wes Anderson Is Quirky in Stop-Motion, Too

  • Peter Donohue · 3 months ago
    After watching Coraline, the animation looks very jumpy. But it also looks hysterical. Jason Schwartzman is just...fantastic.
  • Cole_Abaius · 3 months ago
    Couldn't agree more. The animation is really jumpy. Not just after seeing Coraline either.

    Although I do wonder if that has to do with the color. With Selick's stuff there are a lot of slick surfaces and black and white, but here it's full color with fur - tricky stuff to deal with.

    It does look pretty funny though. Not sure how Schwartzman is able to steal every scene.
  • chille · 3 months ago
    Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't they be British? It is a Roald Dahl adaptation.
  • Bezzy · 3 months ago
    Yeah, but in england, all the animals speak in american accents. Actually pretty accurate.
  • Smithie · 3 months ago
    Visually, it looks, well... fantastic, but the movie star voices effing ruin it. Absolutely wrong. As for the expanded storyline, I guess a trailer isn't the best way to judge, but it feels wrong as well.

    Anticipation sufficiently dampened.
  • zerosum0101 · 3 months ago
    I can not get past the choppiness of the animation. It seems like it would be a very enjoyable, but if the whole movie is jumpy like this I don't think I could stand more than a couple of minutes. I love Wes Anderson but I have no idea why anyone would let him make a stop-motion movie where its so choppy. I'm just blown away that no one stepped in and said something. From what I've seen from other comments and my own feelings as well, this movie could be horrible just because of some poor artistic choice made by Anderson.
  • free online adventure games · 3 months ago
    Not just Coraline, comparing it to Wallace & Gromit, the animation just isn't great. It not just the jumpiness but they all look pretty stiff.
  • justadude · 3 months ago
    Sorry to be a jerk (as I have hated on this movie before), but now that I have actually seen the trailer, this movie is officially on my 'to rent' list; and that's only if I have a sufficient number of kids to watch it with me and bring out the enjoyment of the lame humor.
  • kagi · 3 months ago
    Just going out on a limb here, but I think the animation style is probably intentional: it totally fits with Anderson's ongoing obsession with his 1970s childhood. If you grew up in that era, you saw tons of cheap children's TV that looked just like this (well, not yellow-orange, and not ironic, but you know what I mean). Some of it was even cheaper and jumpier -- for some reason, "Supercar" comes to mind. A lot of that stuff got shown on Nickelodeon's "Pinwheel" in the '80s, too. Wes is all about the "obsolete vernacular," y'know? I'm close to Wes's age, so I totally dig; if you're much younger or much older, though, it might not work for you.