Trailer 2: Fantastic Mr. Fox
By Craig Kennedy - September 30th, 2009; 7:39 am
“You really are a, quote unquote, fantastic fox.”
Judging by the response I’m picking up around the internet, I stand nearly alone in my unrestrained enthusiasm for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The only thing I don’t like about this latest trailer is the voice over and whorish pull-quotes. The rest? Gold.
Filed under: Trailers
Tags: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
You are not alone.
Welcome to the club. I figured I wasn’t totally out on a limb, there are enough Anderson fans out there, but I’m noting a lot more skepticism about this one than something like Where The Wild Things Are….something that got its fair share of skepticism before people finally settled down.
It’s a Wes Anderson film with puppets, what’s not to like.
Unless you don’t like Wes Anderson. Or puppets…
I sense those two things are deal breakers for many people. They’re going in looking for a reason to hate Anderson (these people are big fans of the word “twee”) and the puppets make it easy.
That’s cool. I’m fine with that.
I liked THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, but nothing further from him.
You’re not alone there Sam. Some people haven’t liked anything since Rushmore.
And some people are annoying, present company excluded. If I listened to “some people,” I’d miss a lot of great movies because I’d just pay attention to critical consensus or the bloggeratti and never take chances with my ticket-buying dollar.
Thank god I’m not listening to the consensus on everything.
I’m a Wes Anderson fan and I like seeing so much in the trailers for this film of his trademark deadpan, quirky, and whimsical humor, and gift for using art direction to create precisely arranged scenes (often containing juvenalia).
I admit the first time I saw the first trailer, it gave me pause….the clunky lo-fi style, the nonchalant line readings, the typically flat Anderson compositions…it just didn’t pop like we’ve been trained to expect kids movies to do…but then it totally clicked. This is very much an Anderson film. Its strengths will lie in attitude, and style and dialogue and not in animated fanciness or in pandering to the young ones.