Comments on: No Way!: Disney Exec on Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Oscar Chances

By: Pepe K.

Pepe K. — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:27:19 +0000

Up got the Oscar it deserved, although for sheer beauty, I feel that Ponyo was the best animated feature that year. Both films were made us cry for joy and scentiment. They are wonderful films.

Fantastic Mister Fox on the other hand – was a gross disappointment to me. The book by Roald Dahl was vastly more enjoyable and was what got me to view that travesty of a film. The animation was horrible – Robot Chicken does better! The casting of popular NY -Hollywood actors like the highly over-rated G. Clooney and capitalizing on his Ocean’s Eleven film was absolutely abyssmal! Updating the story made it far worse and removed all the folksy charm of the book and characters. Making the Foxes into yet another dysfunctional family that had to be brought back together is a dead & buried plot idea. I barely managed to sit through it all – constantly saying :” How could they have done this?! It’s so utterly horrible! They have ruined a great story!”

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:17:19 +0000

Hey, the animation-victims must be happy, once again their circle of friends at pixar have won the golden globe, just as planned. Who would have thought that familiarity of brand, politically correctness, extreme lobbying, and mediatic bullying would triumph against quirky and intelligent filmmaking ? It certainly means something important I guess, doesn’t it ?

By: HH

HH — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:47:50 +0000

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a win.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:08:38 +0000

John K sounds like one of those who didn’t see the film at all. That hyper-realism was the whole fucking point of the screenplay, the story wouldn’t have worked any other way. I really hope he isn’t on the jury of any important awards, *wink* *wink*

By: TheVok

TheVok — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:32:31 +0000

Nick, look at those budgets again; Coraline cost almost twice as much as Fantastic Mr. Fox to produce.

TheGunHeart, John K’s point was that the animals in Fantastic Mr. Fox don’t look like animals, but more like people dressed as animals: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/11/acceptable-animation-design.html

And you must admit he’s right on that count.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:19:37 +0000

Cloudy was great, I wish it would get more attention. Sony Animation really proved they are right up there with the big boys, and that they bring something new.

The story was very original and they did not taking themselves too seriously. It’s one the most technically impressive film this year too (I’d say equal to MvA, in a different way), and it was well directed. I think Cloudy is the strongest contender this year after F.Fox.

By: yude

yude — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:20:49 +0000

O’connor, you have to be kidding that Cloudy has a water tight script?

tight enough to retain water perhaps but not tight enough to retain viewer interest. Cleaning the oven started to sound pretty appealing at about 45 minute mark…

Story aside there was no restraint in shown with the color pallet or animation style. Everything was just dialed up to 10 for TOTALLY EXTREME ENTERTAINMENT!

Mr Fox should win this year.

By: TheGunheart

TheGunheart — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:49:53 +0000

I also found Up to be surprisingly weak. I frankly found the whole opening montage ruined by the fact that Carl actually was able to buy tickets.

Fantastic Mr. Fox was easily my favorite animated movie this year, and possibly this decade.