{"id":8484,"date":"2009-09-22T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2009-09-22T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:30:44","slug":"late-tuesday-tease-the-fantastic-mr-fox-off-putting-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/late-tuesday-tease-the-fantastic-mr-fox-off-putting-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Tuesday Tease: THE FANTASTIC MR FOX, Off-Putting Animation."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/12823\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/12823\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s something horrifying about the animation. It looks like they resurrected the ghosts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?tag=rankin-bass\">Rankin\/Bass<\/a> and tortured the poor basterds into <a href=\"http:\/\/definr.com\/poltergeist\" class=\"external external_icon\">poltergeists<\/a>.  Is there a reason Mr. Fox intermittently sounds like he was recorded in a tin can?  Is that the only place Clooney would work? Oh, so you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/trailer\/the-fantastic-mr-fox\/behind-the-scenes\" class=\"external external_icon\">answered that question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understandable to strive for a style that&#8217;s different from all the rest.  Off-putting animation, however, is not how to define yourself as a director.<\/p>\n<p>But we digress.  <\/p>\n<p>The dialogue is funny. The story is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/trailer\/the-fantastic-mr-fox\/featurette-the-world-of-roald-dahl\" class=\"external external_icon\">Roald Dahl<\/a> work(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roald_Dahl\" class=\"external external_icon\"><em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches<\/em><\/a> to name a few). Felicity Dahl, Roald&#8217;s wife, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/trailer\/the-fantastic-mr-fox\/featurette-the-world-of-roald-dahl\" class=\"external external_icon\">on board with Anderson&#8217;s choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re standing on the shoulder of a giant, Wes Anderson. Let&#8217;s hope that odd animation is the only thing we must ignore.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/tags\/the-fantastic-mr-fox\" class=\"external external_icon\">trailer addict<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox_searchlight\/fantasticmrfox\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">apple trailers<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something horrifying about the animation. It looks like they resurrected the ghosts of Rankin\/Bass and tortured the poor basterds into poltergeists. Is there a reason Mr. Fox intermittently sounds like he was recorded in a tin can? Is that the only place Clooney would work? Oh, so you answered that question. It&#8217;s understandable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,56,57],"tags":[98,109,1543,1546,1547,1545,558,387,920,989,1544],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation-art","category-movies","category-trailers","tag-animation","tag-better-not-suck","tag-fantastic-mr-fox","tag-george-clooney","tag-meryl-streep","tag-off-putting","tag-rankin-bass","tag-stop-motion","tag-trailer-addict","tag-tuesday-tease","tag-wes-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}