Wes Anderson's best film since "Rushmore", an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a sly fox going to war against three evil farmers. The film's delightfully ambiguous treatment of many issues even succeeds in provoking hilariously midsguided interpretations of it by commenters like Lauren Bans on doublex.com, who actually called it racist: "Fox raises his hand into the black power sign—arm straight, fist closed-- and the wolf is finally responsive, raising his black arm into the black power sign in return". Needless to say, while the scene in question is described quite accurately, its alleged racism is entirely a figment of Bans's paranoid imagination.
September 9, 2009
Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) ***
Wes Anderson's best film since "Rushmore", an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a sly fox going to war against three evil farmers. The film's delightfully ambiguous treatment of many issues even succeeds in provoking hilariously midsguided interpretations of it by commenters like Lauren Bans on doublex.com, who actually called it racist: "Fox raises his hand into the black power sign—arm straight, fist closed-- and the wolf is finally responsive, raising his black arm into the black power sign in return". Needless to say, while the scene in question is described quite accurately, its alleged racism is entirely a figment of Bans's paranoid imagination.
