Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 animated film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.

Directed by Wes Anderson.

Dig the life fantastic. Taglines

Mr. Fox

• Honey, I'm seven non-fox years old. My father died at seven and a half. I don't want to live in a hole anymore. I'm going to do something about it.
  • To Mrs. Fox, as he rips into his toast like an animal.

• My suicide mission has been cancelled. We're replacing it with a go-for-broke rescue mission.

• Are you cussing with me?
  • To Badger

• What the cuss, where'd this giant fence come from?! We had a master plan!

• I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest, the quote unquote "Fantastic Mr. Fox." And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
  • To Mrs. Fox

• Here, put this bandit hat on.

Mrs. Fox

• I love you too, but I shouldn't have married you.
  • To Mr. Fox

• If what I think is happening is happening, it better not be.

• Am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?

• We're all different... Him, especially. But there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?
  • To Ash, about all and Mr. Fox

• You're nocternal, Phil. Your eyes barely open on a good day.
  • To Phil The Mole

Children

• Boggis, Bunce, and Bean
  One fat, one short, one lean.
  These horrible crooks,
  so different in looks,
  were nonetheless equally mean.

Dialogue

Mr. Fox: Who am I, Kylie?

Kylie: Who how? What now?

Mr. Fox: Why a fox? Why not a horse, or a beetle, or a bald eagle? I'm saying this more as, like, existentialism, you know? Who am I? And how can a fox ever be happy without, you'll forgive the expression, a chicken in its teeth?

Kylie: I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds illegal.

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Ash: You should probably put your bandit hat on now. Personally, I-I don't have one, but I modified this tube sock.

Kristofferson: We look good.

Ash: Yeah, we do.

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Mrs. Fox: [Kristofferson has just departed after Ash's comment] You have got twenty-nine minutes to come up with a proper apology.

Ash: [snaps, gestures wildly] Me? Me have an apology? He gets a bandit hat? He just got here, and he gets a bandit hat? Where's my bandit hat? Why didn't I get shot at? It's because, you… you… you think I'm no good at anything! Well, maybe you're right, thanks. [stomps away angrily and slams door upon exit]

Kylie: [sighs, to Mr. Fox] Told ya not to bring him.

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Mole: I just want to see… a little sunshine…

Mr. Fox: But you're nocturnal, Phil; your eyes barely open on a good da—

Mole: [interrupts] I'm sick of your double talk; we have rights!

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Mr. Fox: [in a cellar with many of the other animal characters] Allright, let's start planning. Who knows shorthand? [Linda raises her hand]

Mr. Fox: Great! Linda! Lutra lutra - you got some dry paper? [she holds up paper]

Mr. Fox: Here we go. Mole! Talpa europaea! What d'you got?

Mole: I can see in the dark.

Mr. Fox: That's incredible! We can use that! Linda?

Linda: Got it.

Mr. Fox: Rabbit! Oryctolagus cuniculus!

Rabbit: I'm fast.

Mr. Fox: You bet you are. Linda?

Linda Otter: Got it.

Mr. Fox: Beaver! Castor fiber!

Beaver: I can chew through wood.

Mr. Fox: Amazing! Linda!

Linda: Got it.

Mr. Fox: Badger! Meles meles!

Badger: Demolitions expert.

Mr. Fox: What? Since when?

Badger: Explosions! Flames! Burning things!

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Ash: I can fit through there. Want to know why?

Kylie: Why?

Ash: Because I'm little.

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Mrs. Fox: I'm about to lose my temper.

Mr. Fox: When?

Mrs. Fox: Right now.

Mr. Fox:...When is that? [Mrs. Fox slashes at his face with her claws] OW!

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Ash: I'm here to rescue you.

Kristofferson: ...I've got mixed feelings about that.

Ash: I don't blame you.

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Badger: Don't buy this tree, foxy. You're burrowing at nine and a half plus moving into the most dangerous neighborhood in the world for your type of species.

Mr.Fox: You're exaggerating, Badger.

Badger: (scoffs) I'm sugar-coating it, man. This is Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three of the meanest, nastiest, and ugliest farmers in the history of this valley.

Mr.Fox: Right, tell me about them.

Badger: (sighs) Okay. Walt Boggis is a chicken farmer, probably the most successful in the world. He weighs the same as a young rhinoceros. He eats three chickens every day: breakfast, lunch, supper, and dessert. That's twelve in total per deim. Nate Bunce is a duck and goose farmer. He's about the size of a pot-bellied dwarf, and his chin would be under the shallow end of any swimming pool on the planet. His food is homemade donuts with mashed-up goose livers injected into them. Frank Bean is a turkey and apple farmer. He invented his own species of each. He lives on a diet of strong alcoholic cider which he makes from his apples. He's as skinny as a pencil, as smart as a whip, and possibly the scariest man currently living.

Taglines

• His life is fantastic... his wife is fantastic... his neighbors, not so fantastic.
• This holiday season, forget super... ignore incredible... it's all about fantastic.

External links

• Fantastic Mr. Fox quotes at the Internet Movie Database