Here’s your look at the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on the Roald Dahl book (adapted by Anderson and Noah Baumbach).  Voice cast includes Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Anjelica Huston, and Bill Murray, who if you thought he was lovable as a human, is even more of a huggable snugglebottom as a badger in a suit.

A lot of the other movie sites out there are complaining about the animation looking “weird” or “flat”, but I like that it’s easy on the CGI and not 3D.  3D is particularly stupid.  I like to be free to look at any part of the frame without getting a GD headache, and the screen looking like a pop-up book isn’t a huge selling point for me.  And if I wanted to wear glasses I would’ve been born a nerd.  I don’t want 3D, I don’t want my chair shaking around, and I don’t need an “immersive experience.”  How bout you just make a good movie and let me sit here with my nachos and stay outta my sh*t, eh hotshot?

UPDATE: GEORGE CLOONEY WILL BE THE VOICE OF MR. FOX 

Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are the latest actors to be confirmed as voices in Wes Anderson’s upcoming stop-motion animation adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl.  via /Film:

The settings will be very natural.  We want to use real trees and real sand, but it’s all miniature. 

Wow, sounds creepy as fuck. The way all children’s book adaptations should be.  Kinda reminds me of the stop motion zombie flick I made in college, starring a couple dead hookers. What prima donnas they were. 

Look, I know Wes Anderson’s a scarf-loving hipster intellectual and all, but after watching Hotel Chevalier, I have to admit, he’s still probably the best production designer in Hollywood.  Nothing looks quite so meticulously storyboarded and choreographed as an Anderson production. One only hopes this one will have fewer disgusting lip-smacking sounds. And seriously? Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman?  If I wanted to watch midget porn, I’d watch… uh, midget porn.