Movie review : Fantastic Mr Fox.

Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl. It was published in 1970. The story revolves around an anthropomorphic, tricky, clever fox named Mr Fox who lives underground beside a tree with his wife and four children. In order to feed his family, he makes nightly visits to farms owned by three wicked, cruel and dim-witted farmers named Boggis who is an enormously fat chicken farmer, Bunce who is a pot-bellied dwarf, a duck goose farmer, and Bean who is a thin man, a turkey and apple farmer and snatches the livestock available on each man's farm. Tired of being outsmarted by Mr Fox, the evil farmers devise a plan to ambush him as he leaves his hole, but they succeed only in shooting off his tail.

Even though the movie contains most of the same characters and uses several lines from the book, the movie is considerably different. To begin with, the entire premise of why Mr. Fox is stealing is completely different in the movie compared to the book. In the book, Mr. Fox steals from the three farmers to feed his family with the support and admiration of his wife. In the movie, Mr. Fox is a "reformed" thief who now writes an article for the local paper and his wife is utterly opposed to his thievery. Another major difference is the character Kristofferson who has a major role in the movie but is not mentioned in the book. As Mr. Fox’s nephew, Kristofferson is very athletic and causes Mr. Fox’s wimpy son a great deal of grief.

I really enjoyed watching the movie because it sends a massage to people that real man would do anything just to feed his family even if it means putting his life at risk. My favourite part of the movie was when Mrs Fox forgave Mr Fox after putting her family into risk. The least effective part of the movie was when Mr Fox took his child and went with him to steal, I think this is a bad lesson for children because they will think that stealing is a good thing.