The Royal Tenenbaums

...and his dapper doppelganger, Mr. Fox (right). Photo: Bauer-Griffin | Amanda Schwab, AP Photo/Starpix From "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" to his latest film, the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation "Fantastic Mr. Fox," director Wes...

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...who do tend to resemble Michael Bay more than Alfred Hitchcock. The most notable exception is Wes Anderson, the man behind "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" and the new stop-motion animated feature "The Fantastic Mr. Fox." When word first...

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...found an ideal story and medium - stop-motion animation - to bring his cockeyed vision to the cartoon world. In the hands of Anderson ("The Royal Tenenbaums," "Rushmore"), Roald Dahl's illustrated children's book gets loving treatment and...

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...low-key vibe, offering a welcome respite from the whiz-bang computer effects and 3-D hype of current animated movies. Anderson ("Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums") can sometimes be too knowingly with-it for his own good; like when he casts...

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...cartoon world. Brits may be annoyed at this latest Americanization of one of their beloved literary works. Yet in the hands of Anderson ("The Royal Tenenbaums," "Rushmore"), Roald Dahl's illustrated children's book gets loving treatment and...

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...was experiencing. "The Darjeeling Limited" was so similar in tone and feel to his previous films (especially his masterpiece, "The Royal Tenenbaums") that some speculated that Mr. Anderson had crawled too far inside his own head to fully...

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...same hermetic, precious sensibility and inside-joke humor that have turned viewers off in Anderson's previous movies ("Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums," "The Darjeeling Limited"), the film also exudes undeniable, infectious whimsy and warmth.

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...wider release of the George Clooney-voiced animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Director Wes Anderson ("The Royal Tennenbaums") puts his creative stamp on this film, which also employs the voice talents of Meryl Streep,...

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...it's a defiantly handmade artifact - a tabletop movie. In other words, it's like every other Wes Anderson film ("Rushmore,'' "The Royal Tenenbaums,'' "The Darjeeling Limited''), just without the pesky actors. This turns out to be critical.

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...the same awkward whimsy of every Wes Anderson adventure (some family scenes could be pulled straight from the dysfunctional townhouse of "The Royal Tenenbaums"), but this barnyard cast is anything but impersonal. I realize George Clooney,...

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