{"id":510,"date":"2010-04-05T01:23:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T09:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2010-04-05T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T09:33:08","slug":"the-fantastic-mr-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Mr. Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious how Wes Anderson would make an animated children&#8217;s movie, and the answer is very clear: exactly the way he makes all his movies. If you don&#8217;t like his movies, if you find them painfully awkward and self-consciously weird, you probably will not like this because, first and foremost, it&#8217;s a Wes Anderson flick. If you are fond of his films in all their geeky hipster glory, you will clap your hands like giddy schoolgirl at this one.<\/p>\n<p>The stop-motion animation is a bit choppy and strange, and I say that as a devotee of the art form. It&#8217;s something about the knees that just isn&#8217;t right, but the urge to reach out and touch the animals surely means something is being done well. The dialog is snappy and adorably quirky, and the whole thing is just a super fun time. Where does George Clooney get off being charming and attractive when he isn&#8217;t even on the screen?!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0432283\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Fantastic Mr. Fox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmofilia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fantastic_mr_fox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOTBOX!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious how Wes Anderson would make an animated children&#8217;s movie, and the answer is very clear: exactly the way he makes all his movies. If you don&#8217;t like his movies, if you find them painfully awkward and self-consciously weird, you probably will not like this because, first and foremost, it&#8217;s a Wes Anderson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,5,6,11,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}