The Fantastic Mr. Fox is really, really good.

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The Fantastic Mr. Fox is really, really good.

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I LOVE the old school stop motion animation and the overall look of this film. You just want to dive through the screen and play in that world :} And yes, there's actually a wolf in it :}

I took pictures of some of the puppets they used in the film ( on display here in Los Angeles ) I just wanna pick em up and play with em. Darn safety glass. :D
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I wanted to see this movie really bad this weekend, since I heard it was "opening." But apparently no theater in my state is playing it until the 25th. Sigh.
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Yes, sadly it's only open in New York And Los Angeles. But take my word for it, this film is...delightful. Just watching it makes you feel like a kid again. :)
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I am going to see this when it comes out, I been wanting to see a new stop motion animated movie again for quite sometime
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I just might watch this today along with Avatar.

Shadow, have you seen Coraline?
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Yeah, Coraline was pretty good. Kind of a rip-off on Spirited Away IMHO, but I still liked it enough to buy it. (And I'm not even a big fan of stop-motion)
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I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to. That it's doing so well should be proof-of-concept against the Hollywood dogma that everything has to be done using only the latest cutting edge high tech CGI-rendering techniques. Stop motion isn't dead. (Gromit!!!) 2D animation is still alive and well--just ask The Princess and the Frog. And, puppeteering is alive and well, too; it's Where the Wild Things Are.
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Scott Gardener wrote:2D animation is still alive and well--just ask The Princess and the Frog. And, puppeteering is alive and well, too; it's Where the Wild Things Are.
Er. . . While all three movies were good, I haven't found anything to indicate that any of them have recovered their expenses yet. :P Even Fantastic Mr. Fox, which had a pretty cheap budget as far as animated films go, was still ten million shy of breaking even last I checked.

James Cameron's Avatar, on the other hand, had a $230 million budget and mediocre writing, yet not even a week after its release has somehow already payed for itself.
Not to take anything away from James Cameron. . . But that's just wrong. :P
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Saw this Thanksgiving , morning after really. Was a decent movie, I pretty much love stop motion. Story was good, stop motion was good, humor kinda flat. Don't think I laughed once during the movie, maybe a few smiles but no giggles.
I don't know maybe it was Clooneys voice, the mono tone way he spoke throughout the movie, maybe with a bit more inflection some of the humor would have gotten a laugh. Did like the way they used cursing. :P
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