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Some artists have a way of riveting your vision with the certitude of what they do. This has nothing to do with subject or style. It s inexplicable. Andy Warhol and Grandma Moses. The spareness of Bergman or the Fellini circus. Wes Anderson is like that. There s nothing consistent about his recent work but its ability to make me go
Now here s Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated picture with nothing in common with traditional animation, except that it s largely in one of the oldest animation styles of all stop motion, the one used in King Kong. The animals aren t smaller than people but often larger, and more mature.