Friday, Sep. 04, 2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Opens Nov. 13
It's a Wes Anderson movie featuring Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Anjelica Huston. But this time they're not in twee outfits delivering mannered dialogue; they're bringing a quirky children's tale by Roald Dahl to stop-animation life. In Dahl's story, Mr. Fox gets in trouble with the farmers whose fowl he's been poaching and must draw on his inherent foxiness to save himself and his friends. Voicing our hero in Anderson's adaptation is George Clooney; Meryl Streep plays his supportive spouse, adding "vixen" to her recent roster of wildly divergent roles (including but not limited to editrix, chef, nun and singer of Abba songs).