First FANTASTIC MR. FOX trailer

Friday, July 31, 2009


The first trailer is now online for The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl story. The photos that were previously released made the characters look like stiff, creepy taxidermy exhibits, but they're actually surprisingly appealing in motion. The actual animation looks like it has a slightly crude quality, which I don't object to at all; the super-smooth movements of movies like Coraline are amazing, but the more stiff, jerky quality of older animation - as seen in the Ranking & Bass TV specials, for instance - can have a really charming quality, like watching a toy shop come to life.

(Given that George Clooney's little whistle-click deal is kind of annoying just in the trailer, I'm gonna predict it gets old real fast in the actual film.)



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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?

Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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