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Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)

Roald Dahl's book is adapted for the screen here using stop motion animation by Wes Anderson. I have read the book version when I was a child and there are some changes but I could not be certain how much and how many so it is hard to compare the film to the original. There is an obvious shift to making the narrative more focused on family relations as seems to be the trend these days but it still retains an excellent sense of fun, mostly at the expense of the three human farmers.

George Clooney is really well cast voicing the title character but Bill Murray seems completely wasted as Clive Badger. Clearly this is a children's film but there is enough jokes and silliness in there for us big kids too. I am not really sure about the choice of using stop motion over CGI or normal animation as some of the characters facial expressions do not seem to translate that well but other than that it works fine for majority of the movie.

If you have to find something family friendly to watch this is a good pick and I would give it a 4/5.