Fantastic Mr. Fox

I think the puppeteers, who are in charge with the movement, should really get a huge 4 star too.I'm rewinding to the 2nd best animated movie in 2009 (since UP won all the awards that year); Fantastic Mr. Fox.
This is the kind of children story that adult would enjoy. Especially when it's a Wes Anderson film.

Everything in this ‘stop-motion’ animated film has offered was brilliant.
I mean genius!

All right, let's set aside on how I appreciate this movie so much.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a movie based on the children's novel by Roald Dahl.
It’s a story about a Fox who steals food from mean human farmers. The farmers eventually were fed up and tried to hunt him down. With the help of other animals, we’ll see how the war between Mr. Fox’s clan and the farmers ended.

As I learned over, this film was actually Wes Anderson’s first animation movie. It was because his love for Roald Dahl, he agrees to signed on.
Even though it’s considered as a children story and it’s a ‘stop motion animation’ film, the audio visual ‘treatment’ for this movie is suited for adult to enjoy; The camera angles were interesting, the set design were very detailed with fun shapes. The script and direction of the puppets to act were thought carefully. I mean, I was laughing through out the movie on how Mr. Fox and the rest of the character acted out.
And with Wes Anderson in charge, he manages well to have great actors to join in his film projects. This time, there were George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and his regular actors; Jason Schwartzman & Bill Murray, etc.
I also learned that Wes wanted to have the voice recording in an outside places rather in a studio, like the forest, the attic, the stable, etc. It gave the actors on a certain feeling with spontaneous improvement for the story. Also the same with the set design, Wes wanted to have real nature feeling for it, so they use such as trees, sands, dirt for the miniature set of the film.

The next cool thing I could bare from the film is, the cool soundtrack. You’ll get to hear The Beach Boys, The Bobby Fuller Four, Burl Ives, Georges Delerue, The Rolling Stones, and other artists. Jarvis Cocker from the Pulp contributed a voice over for one of the character and also a song for the soundtrack.

Overall, I really felt a Wes Anderson’s film. The look and the feel of it were so his kind.
Surreally, I love it.