Saw the Fantastic Mr. Fox last weekend. It was a great movie. I don't think I liked it quite as much as Coraline - another stop motion wonder from last year that really blew me away - but it is a lot tamer. If I was a hatchling, Coraline would be nightmare fodder. But as an adult, it's just surreal and imaginative.

Mr. Fox doesn't quite have that same magic. It's a fairly basic children's story brought to life with incredible puppetry, wonderful camera work, and intricate stages. Of course, if I wasn't immersed in teh furreh, maybe the talking animals would seem more surreal and wondrous?

Either way, it's unfortunate that films like Mr. Fox and Coraline don't perform better at the box office while the 4,000th sequel to Shrek does.

Also, Ash and Kristofferson are murrworthy. ^._.^;