Fantastic Mr Fox is absolutely droll and completely bizarre, an experiment in abstraction and purposeful weirdness that doesn't serve any purpose in making an adaptation of Dahl's novel.
Wes Anderson's storytelling style is perfunctory and peppers a streamlined narrative with needless diversions to pad out a simple story rather than letting it tell that story.
His attempts at whimsy and pathos undercut the story's narrative heft of comeuppance that Dahl's novel imbued via imbuing the characters with heart and the…
