Fantastic Mr Fox movie review.

One fat, one short and one lean that’s how the three farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean are classified. The chicken farmer Boggis eats like a pig, 3 chickens smothered with dumplings for breakfast, lunch and supper. The duck and goose farmer Bunce eats doughnuts stuffed with a disgusting liver paste which upsets his stomach and gives him a beastly behaviour. Turkey and apple farmer Bean is not fond of food he only drown himself in cider made from his apples. We find Mr and Mrs Fox and their 12 year old male child Ash, the town lawyer Badger, rat and other wild animals. Movies keep audience amused by their sequence of events. How the last scene links to the other and the arising anticipation from viewers. The couple went stealing together but after Mrs Fox told her husband she was pregnant at the wild animal trap at dead door he vowed to stop stealing.  Mr Fox started buying the tree, creating a master plan to steal from Boggis, Bunce and Bean behind his wife’s back. He succeeded but that left the mean men meaner. That’s where the three men fabricated a plan of revenge. The fox’s family lived under a big tree. His window view was the best, any fox would die to have it. Being close to such an amount of food looking at Boggis, Bunce and Bean’s farms filled with all the goodies.

The movie and the book are different, the movie reveals Mrs Fox as a person who no longer wants stolen food meanwhile the book resembles her as a happy thief. In the book the Fox family have four children but in the movie there is only one fox Ash. We see scenes of Ash and his cousin swimming and in a science lab. Dogs are not mentioned in the book but we see them in the movie fed blue berries filled with a high dose of sleeping drugs neither was the electric fence mentioned. There is no part in the book where Rat kidnaps Mr Fox child and becoming a mediator between the animals and the farmers by bringing the letter. Rat is scared of Mr Fox in the book but in the movie he looks at him straight on and fight him until Rat confess where Ash cousin is being held hostage before he dies. The part where the farmers put cider in the hole is not in the book same applies to the boys wanting to bring Mr Fox tail back endangering their lives since the tail is used as a tie by one of the farmers.  The book does not have a chapter where the farmers and the animals finally meet that’s where the animals show violent behaviour by burning buildings around them the human beings show reckless behaviour when they shoot to kill. The book says that in the end they still used the 3 routes to go to where the 3 farmers store their food, in the movie they end up in one combined shop of the 3 farmers. After all is said and done they still did not find the animals. The movie represented Dahl’s classic well with its climax and resolution.

 It was a great movie to watch with all the characters introduced in an appropriate manner with clear view and great sound including the back tracks and voices. My favourite part of the movie was when Ash rescued his dad, Kylie and his cousin when they were trapped inside Bean’s yard with many furious people pointing guns at them. That part was epic they ducked bullets like Neo in the Matrix movie, when they finally got on the motor bike to get out of the yard. This movie is for all age groups but more efficient for young children who are still developing vocabulary and exploring new words. It is utmost suitable for children because they love happy endings for the characters they put out to be the good guys.