“..There should be something incongruous about the sound of George Clooney’s cashmere-flannel voice coming from the mouth of a somewhat rangy-looking fox in a country gent’s corduroy suit: ..
.. Why should a matinee idol suffer the indignity of being trapped in a puppet’s body?
But from the first minute of the Wes Anderson stop-motion-animated feature “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Clooney is that creature ..
.. the genuinely fantastic Mr. Fox of the title, a rapscallion charmer who wears many hats: husband, father, newspaperman, chicken thief.
It’s one thing for an actor to feel comfortable in his own skin; it’s another for him to feel completely at home in the body of a fake-fur and metal-armature vulpus vulpus.
And yet Clooney’s naturalism is of a piece with the joyous, marvelously detailed movie around him ..
.. adapted from Roald Dahl’s novel with adventurousness and seemingly boundless love by Anderson and Noah Baumbach.
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” is possibly the finest picture about family, community and poultry thievery ever made..”
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