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Director Wes Anderson brings his quirky style to the quirky world of children’s writer Roald Dahl. Brought to life in stop-motion puppet animation, the raw feel is just right. The precise cast handles the eccentricities perfectly. The mix is pretty fantastic.

Mr. Fox (George Clooney, THE MAN WHO STARE AT GOATS) was the most suave chicken thief around until one day, a life threatening incident made a pregnant Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep, ADAPTATION.) make him promise to give up his dangerous lifestyle. Years later Mr. Fox is a paper pusher and determined to move his family out of their foxhole and into a new tree house. The new digs happen to be across from the farms of the notoriously mean farmers Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon, HARRY POTTER), Walter Boggis (Robin Hurlstone) and Nathan Bunce (Hugo Guinness), so he enlists his handyman Kylie the possum (Wallace Wolodarsky, THE DARJEELING LIMITED) to help him steal once again.
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Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, oh my! Roland Emmerich returns to his favorite filmic theme – blowing up the world. This apocalyptic story takes the end of the Mayan calendar conspiracy as it’s launching point, but it ends up a highlight reel of so many other disaster stories – INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, POSEIDON and The Bible.

Giving this disaster story a bit of human emotion is Jackson Curtis (John Cusack, HIGH FIDELITY), a struggling writer who loves his kids Noah (Liam James, FRED CLAUS) and Lilly (Morgan Lily, HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU). He’s divorced from their mother Kate (Amanda Peet, CHANGING LANES), who is now married to a plastic surgeon named Gordon (Thomas McCarthy, MICHAEL CLAYTON). When the Earth’s crust starts to break up, Jackson piles his family into his limo (he’s a driver) and heads out to get the word from Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson, ZOMBIELAND), a wild-eyed conspiracy nut with a radio program. The men with the cardboard signs might be right.
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