Thursday, June 20th, 2013

The Fantastic Mr. Anderson

Fantastic Mr Fox

Magnificent Wes Anderson! And Noah Baumbach, the writer of this marvelous masterpiece of a film, animated motion picture. “Alcohol is dangerous to the health” and “Go-hide-in-your-rat-holes-and-leave-us-along-to-make-more-and-more-shitloads-of-money” can be the morale of this wonderful tale, along with something more, regarding the pursue of true talent, friendship, humanity and the instinct to survive. Plenty of voice talent as well, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, (a very useful name these days, especially at Hollywood), Eric Anderson (the director’s brother), Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe. The special voice appearance of Owen Wilson, remarkable as usual, not a lead character voice, as the one in Cars and the voice of the soul of this movie, Wes Anderson himself. You noticed the maturity of the animations in the last few years, nothing but a good sign that our little children will be smarter then ever. Times started to change, people are more and more manipulated by the normal media, very few are really thinking and… I decide to write more of it with another movie review. Good move to grant an Academy Award for the animated film (called Best animated feature), when it happened, in 2001. It’s a lot of work, it is art as pure … [Read more...]