For some reason, last year’s Wes Anderson vehicle Fantastic Mr. Fox wasn’t a runaway success. Like Erik said in his review, I chalk the film’s so-so box office up to general Wes Anderson malaise rather than any reflection on the film, which I thought was fucking delightful.
I guess the studio is combating that tepid press… now that the film’s been out for five months… or something? The O‘s Shawn Levy is reporting in this puzzled blog post that Fantastic‘s cinematographer Tristan Oliver, production designer Nelson Lowry, and key animator Brad Schiff will be having a sit-down chat with the audience at the Hollywood Theatre tonight after the 6:45 show. One of the weird things that Levy points out about last night’s 7:17 press release:
Oliver became slightly infamous last fall when he dissed Fox director Wes Anderson in an LA Times interview, calling him “a little sociopathic” and revealing that Anderson directed much of the film in absentia, via e-mail. (Anderson explained later that he imagined that he’d be able to work with Oliver again.) Curious fellow indeed to be out there beating the drum.
If you’re as curious about why this is happening as I am, this could be worth checking out. I can almost guarantee it will be more interesting than Alice in Wonderland.
Agreed. This was my favorite movie in a long while.
This movie is going to lead a generation of furries to do disgusting yiffing things with their plushies.
I think it suffered from Where The Wild Things Are backlash. I haven’t seen it yet because I seem to only make it to about four movies a year in the theater.
Hahaha… did you just, wait. I’m sorry there’s some irony going on here that only my fantastical little mind will comprehend or find amusing in any way, shape or form. But, this fantastic movie was rather fantastic. I’m not even really a fan of stop-motion pictures, but this was really great. It’s definitely not a children’s film, but the dialogue is incredible and it really does manage somehow to appear every bit a visual masterpiece despite it’s choppy-ish style. PEACE & LOVE! ~ScripTip Jones.