Paul Kotapish
Dec-13-2009, 4:02pm
We just walked downtown with the family to see Wes Anderson's new stop-motion animated film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
We all thought it was pretty fantastic, and we loved the mostly acoustic soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat, which features plenty of sparkling mandolin from Alison Stephens and John Parricelli. Parricelli also does some fine guitar and banjo work, too.
The original score is interspersed with some very cool tracks that range from the Beach Boys to Bobby Fuller to Art Tatum to Burl Ives.
I prefer the gritty stop-motion approach to animation over glitzy, hyperrealistic computer animation, and Anderson did a wonderful job on this first effort. It's not as cute and finely detailed as Nick Park and Aardman Studio's Wallace & Gromit pieces, but just as satisfying.
The movie is a tad dark and scary in parts for very young children, but school-age kids should be fine. It had plenty to offer viewers of all ages.
You can hear some of the soundtrack here. (http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/)
We all thought it was pretty fantastic, and we loved the mostly acoustic soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat, which features plenty of sparkling mandolin from Alison Stephens and John Parricelli. Parricelli also does some fine guitar and banjo work, too.
The original score is interspersed with some very cool tracks that range from the Beach Boys to Bobby Fuller to Art Tatum to Burl Ives.
I prefer the gritty stop-motion approach to animation over glitzy, hyperrealistic computer animation, and Anderson did a wonderful job on this first effort. It's not as cute and finely detailed as Nick Park and Aardman Studio's Wallace & Gromit pieces, but just as satisfying.
The movie is a tad dark and scary in parts for very young children, but school-age kids should be fine. It had plenty to offer viewers of all ages.
You can hear some of the soundtrack here. (http://www.fantasticmrfoxmovie.com/)