The Foxes' four children are replaced by Ash, a small and insecure fox who seeks his father's approval and Mrs. The movie adds scenes before Mr Fox attacks the three farmers and after they bulldozed the hill, as well as a slightly altered ending and more background on Mr Fox's past life as a thief of food. The movie's plot focuses more on Mr Fox's relationship with Mrs Fox and his son, which is pitted against Mr Fox's desire to steal chickens as a means of feeling like his natural self. It was released in 2009 and features the voices of George Clooney as Mr Fox, Meryl Streep as Mrs Fox, Bill Murray as Badger, Robert Hurlstone as Boggis, Hugo Guinness as Bunce and Michael Gambon as Bean. The book was adapted into a stop-motion animated film by director Wes Anderson. In 1994, Fantastic Mr Fox was awarded the Read Aloud BILBY Award from the Children's Book Council of Australia. The book ends with the words "And so far as I know, they are still waiting." Everyone joyfully cheers for this idea, while Boggis, Bunce, and Bean are left waiting in vain for the fox to emerge from his hole. They carry their loot back home, where Mrs Fox has prepared a great celebratory banquet for the starving underground animals and their families.Īt the table, Mr Fox invites everyone to live in a secret underground neighbourhood with him and his family, where he will hunt on their behalf daily and where none of them will need to worry about the farmers anymore. Here, they are nearly caught by the Beans' servant Mabel and have an unpleasant confrontation with the cellar's resident, Rat. Aided by Badger, the animals tunnel to Bunce's storehouse for ducks, geese, hams, bacon and carrots, and then to Bean's secret cider cellar. On the way to their next destination, Mr Fox runs into his friend Badger and asks him to accompany him on his mission, as well as to extend an invitation to the feast to the other burrowing animals - Badger and his family, as well as the Moles, the Rabbits and the Weasels - to apologize for getting them caught up in the farmers' hunt. Mr Fox kills several chickens and sends his son to carry the animals back home to Mrs Fox. Working from his memory of the routes he has taken above ground, he and his children tunnel through the ground and wind up burrowing to one of Boggis's four chicken houses. Cornered by their enemies, Mr Fox and his family, and all the other underground creatures that live around the hill, begin to starve.Īfter three days trapped underground, Mr Fox devises a plot to acquire food. They then choose to lay siege to the fox, surrounding Mr Fox's hole and waiting until he is hungry enough to come out. The farmers are ridiculed for their persistence, but they refuse to give up and vow not to return to their farms until they have caught Mr Fox. The Foxes manage to escape by burrowing further beneath the ground to safety. The three farmers then dig up the Foxes' burrow using spades and then excavators. Tired of being outsmarted by Mr Fox, the triumvirate devise a plan to ambush him as he leaves his burrow, but they succeed only in shooting off his tail. To feed his family, he makes nightly visits to local farms owned by three cruel, rude, wicked and dim-witted farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, whereupon he seizes the livestock available on each man's farm chickens from Boggis, ducks or geese from Bunce, and turkeys from Bean. Mr Fox is an anthropomorphic, tricky, and clever fox who lives underground beside a tree with his wife and four children.
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