Director: Wes ANDERSON
Year: 2009
Book by: Roald DAHL
Adapted by: Wes ANDERSON, Noah BAUMBACH
Cinematographer: Tristan OLIVER
Great fun, incredible stop-motion puppet animation, all the usual stylistic flourishes of Wes Anderson, along with the usual casting choices (Owen Wilson, Jason Schwarzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Willem Dafoe, etc...), plus Clooney and Streep in the lead voice roles giving all the voices great color and character.
Fun and energetic like all of Anderson's work, plus the natural fun and energy that comes from Dahl's book. The two artists really make a great pairing, and I think Anderson is a natural choice for adaptations of Dahl's works.
One of the best animated features for kids ever, lots of depth and quality to the sound design which is really what makes this film work. oh, and the usual excellent soundtrack featuring rock from the 60's, and in this film replacing the usual Kinks tracks with Beach Boys stuff.
A great fun little film, still lacking something in the stakes, and emotional reality. Anderson continues to make the best quirky films with dead-pan humor and problematic families filled with insecure boy/men. But the characters remain something that stays on screen for us to watch and laugh at, Anderson still hasn't reached through that screen to touch me emotionally.
Probably gonna want to have this on DVD.
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