Fantastic Mr. Fox

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” is an animated feature approximately 90 mintes in length and stars the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, William Dafoe and Owen Wilson. A cast of voices like this deserves a much better screenplay than the one written by Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson with Mr. Anderson also directing the film. The technology utilized in this animated story of Mr. Fox (Mr. Clooney) and Mrs. Fox (Ms. Streep) is the only thing “fantastic” about this film and, unfortunately, once you acknowledge that, you are forced to endure a mundane and insignificant tale (no pun intended) about the foxes and the problems they encounter. I expected more but got much less. This film gets 2 stars, 1 and ½ of which is for the excellent animation