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[[A. O. Scott]] called ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'': {{cquote|In some ways (Wes Anderson's) most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents. The work done by the animation director, Mark Gustafson, by the director of photography, Tristan Oliver, and by the production designer, Nelson Lowry, shows amazing ingenuity and skill, and the music (by [[Alexandre Desplat]], with the usual shuffle of well-chosen pop tunes, famous and obscure) is both eccentric and just right.<ref>{{cite news | title= Don't Count Your Chickens | url= https://movies.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/movies/13fantastic.html | date= November 13, 2009 | newspaper= [[The New York Times]] | access-date= May 17, 2011 | first= A. O. | last= Scott | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110828111246/http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/movies/13fantastic.html | archive-date= August 28, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>}}
According to ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', the film is "both a delightful amusement and a distillation of the filmmaker's essential playfulness"<ref>{{cite magazine | title= Wes Anderson's Return to Form | url= http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1938838,00.html | date= November 13, 2009 | magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | first= Mary | last= Pols | access-date= May 17, 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110214124823/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1938838,00.html | archive-date= February 14, 2011 | url-status= dead}}</ref> and was one of the ten best films of the year.<ref>{{cite magazine | title= Wes Anderson's Return to Form | url= http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1943915_1943921,00.html | date= December 8, 2009 | magazine= Time | first= Richard | last= Corliss | author-link= Richard Corliss | access-date= May 17, 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110623184851/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1943915_1943921,00.html | archive-date= June 23, 2011 | url-status= dead}}</ref> [[Cosmo Landesman]] of ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' said "having a quirky [[auteur]] like Anderson make a children's film is a bit like [[David Byrne]], of [[Talking Heads]], recording an album of [[nursery rhyme]]s produced by [[Brian Eno]]". According to Landesman: {{cquote|In style and sensibility, this is really a Wes Anderson film, with little Dahl. It's missing the darker elements that characterize Dahl's books. There you find the whiff of something nasty: child abuse, violence, misogyny. Gone, too, is any sense of danger. Even the farmers, who are made to look a touch evil, don't seem capable of it. We never feel the tension of watching the Fox family facing real peril. The film certainly has Americanized Dahl's story, and I don't mean the fact that the good animals have American accents and the baddies have British ones. It offers yet another celebration of difference and a lesson on the importance of being yourself. But it does leave you thinking: isn't it time that children's films put children first?<ref>{{cite news | title= The Fantastic Mr Fox | url= http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article6884193.ece | date= October 25, 2009 | newspaper= [[The Sunday Times]] | first=Cosmo | last= Landesman | author-link= Cosmo Landesman | access-date=May 17, 2011 | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>}}
Amy Biancolli from the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' wrote: {{cquote|Anderson injects such charm and wit, such personality and nostalgia{{emdash}}evident in the old-school animation, storybook settings and pitch-perfect use of [[Burl Ives]]{{emdash}}that it's easy to forgive his self-conscious touches.<ref>{{cite news|first=Amy|last=Biancolli|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|url=http://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Fantastic-Mr-Fox-1720278.php|access-date=September 3, 2011|title=A fantastic Mr. Fox quirks and all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018202358/http://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Fantastic-Mr-Fox-1720278.php|archive-date=October 18, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
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