George Clooney

...vulpus vulpus. And yet Clooney's naturalism is of a piece with the joyous, marvelously detailed movie around him, adapted from Roald Dahl's novel with adventurousness and seemingly boundless love by Anderson and Noah Baumbach. "Fantastic Mr....

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...I think, the story's resolution would be more than merely quaint. Clooney's amusing in motormouth mode, but Anderson and Baumbach fail to make Foxy's glibness much fun. The self-knowing irony seems ill-suited to Dahl's traditional story...

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...LIFE AQUATIC co-screenwriter Noah Baumbach) Wes Anderson injects into all his film. The charm comes a bit easier with great actors like George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Jason Schwartzman lending their unique...

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...Fischer before him. The film then flashes forward two years (12 fox-years, we're told), with Foxy (voiced by George Clooney), wife Felicity (Meryl Streep) and son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) dwelling in a shabby foxhole. Following an ultimatum...

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Clooney's in his best smooth-talker form and Streep's vocals are pure grace and class, supported by great drollery from Schwartzman and frequent Anderson collaborator Murray, providing the voice of a Badger who is Mr. Fox's attorney.

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