Below you can watch the newest trailer for The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the movie Wes Anderson email-directed, featuring voice work by handsome father figures George Clooney and Bill Murray, plus Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, and others. It looks like they’ve given this new trailer the full Wes Anderson treatment, by which I mean it has big yellow text and Rolling Stones songs. It’s not 3D or CG… and I like that. Not to mention, Willem Dafoe as a rat? He was born to play this role.
You’ll also notice that it employs the tried-and-true, Brian-on-Family-Guy technique of having the anthropomorphic animals act very civilized, then suddenly revert to their primitive, wildlife behavior for big laughs. Here, try it some time:
PROFESSOR SQUIDSWORTH
*opening briefcase, putting on reading glasses* Ahh my dear friend Patrick, no worse for the wear I see, eh, old boy? In any case, I’ve brought those plans you asked for. Did you bring the proposal request I, er… requested? Hahaha!
PATRICK H. LLAMA, ESQ
Squidsy! Haha, of course I have! You know me, old “Johnny on the spot.” Here, feast those dinner plates of yours on this. *puts dossier on table*
PROFESSOR SQUIDSWORTH
*narrowing enormous eyes to scan documents* This proposal request looks fantastic. *flicks open zippo lighter with tentacles, slowly lights cigarette* …And I should know, I created it for the Jenkins account. *long drag* Eight months ago. You stole it nearly word for word. What’s your game, Llama–
PATRICK H. LLAMA, ESQ, flustered, spits in PROFESSOR SQUIDSWORTH’s eyes. SQUIDSWORTH falls over backwards, crashing through a neighboring table.
Restaurant manager FREDDY CRABTREE (dressed in a bow tie and spats) scampers over, walking sideways.
FREDDY CRABTREE
*frantically waving claws over his head* What is the meaning of this? This is a place of business, not a stable! I demand that you pay for the damages!
PROFESSOR SQUIDSWORTH covers the place in ink
PROFESSOR SQUIDSWORTH
Run!
(*Air guitar*)
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*Dung Beetle Burnsy flutters into the room*
Now this is my kind of movie!
“Proof that Pixar doesn’t have a monopoly on heartfelt animation.”
So, The Fantastic Mr. Fox is like the Linux of movies?
I take it as mere coincidence that you used all animals or names for your anthropomorphic animal skit that could be found in an episode of ‘Spongebob Squarepants’.
“Proof that Pixar doesn’t have a monopoly on heartfelt animation.”
Tim Burton coughs politely, grabs a hank of Helena BoCa’s hair, pulls her close.
I admit, I had to rely heavily on sea creatures. They have the best defense mechanisms.
Alfredo P. Ostrich ain’t tryin’ to hear that.
Ugh, sorry for the dickstep Jessco. Clearly, Tim Burton being the douchey Mac of animation was property of your joke.
I thought the name Crabtree was to not be mentioned around here…
I’ll watch this if there’s a monkey that uses the “skeet skeet skeet” defense mechanism.
You can say Crabtree now, but not ‘Farve’.
Apparently Over There has a post about Whoopi saying it wasn’t “Rape Rape”?
Where was this bitch when I needed a character witness at my last parole hearing?
You can say Crabtree now, but not ‘Farve’.
AAAAAAH. FUCK YOU, BRETT FAVRE! FUCK YOU IN YOUR STUPID AW-SHUCKS BLUE-JEANS WEARIN’ SHEEP-FUCKING FACE!
Yeah, well if they find Whoopi’s dead body in an Iowa landfill, be sure to ask Him “how France is this time of year”.
Fuck it, I am fucking making a blog called “LOLRage” next, and it is just fucking going to be a fucking storehouse for my USB-adapted-fleshlight-hatefucks. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I’m really excited about this, but am I the only one who was pissed when they started playing the rolling stones song, to sync up with them reading all those quotes from Rolling Stone magazine, with the word “Rolling Stone” in huge letters on the screen. You know the guy who edited the trailer was jizzing himself over his cleverness on this one.
(bonus points: at the end it says the soundtrack is on ABKco records, which is the company who owns the rights to all the good rolling stones songs (everything up and including “Cock sucker blues” (really that was the last song the stones recorded for ABKco)).
Hey I’m a Bears fan. I have more pent-up hate for Favre than all of you guys. I hated Favre before it was cool. The last 3 years have just been fuel on the fire.
And Vinny, I am now a 9ers fan because of Singletary. Dude is one of my idols. And he wears a stopwatch to actual games. Show me more hard core than that.