Based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the beloved, best-selling book by Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox is family fun at its finest. Director 1 Credit ...

Fantastic Mr. Fox represents Anderson’s first attempt at an animated film—more specifically, stop-action animation, with real-life models painstakingly photographed one frame at a time.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is certainly full of warmth and fun, but if any of the characters heard you call them cute (or that dreaded descriptor, “twee”) then they’d bite your finger off.

3) Mr. and Mrs. Fox had four cubs, not one little nutcase, and Dahl made no mention of a yoga-bending super-nephew. 4) I'm pretty sure the point of the story wasn't Mr. Fox's flagging self-esteem ...

As the midpoint for fall approaches, the craving for seasonal films only grows. Wes Anderson’s 2009 stop-motion comedy, “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” satisfies that appetite with its rich color palette. The ...

So, today we look at Wes Anderson's only other stop-motion film. People were more split on it than I remember. But this is why it's great. Here's everything right with Fantastic Mr. Fox.

“The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, based on a novel by Roald Dahl, is more than fantastic, it’s incandescent. The story works on a ...