“I used to steal birds, but now I’m a newspaperman,” says Mr. Fox, natty in his double ... s “something kind of fantastic” about being different (Ash is small and not the athlete he ...

“He always shows a character in his underwear. So we have Ash” — Mr. Fox’s oddball son, voiced by Jason Schwartzman — “in his underwear in a great scene where (the characters) get ...

In contrast to the book, in which the Foxes have four largely undifferentiated kids, here they have but one son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman ... to co-direct “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” ...

"If Fantastic Mr. Fox is an eye-popping ... What drives this caper is the Fox home front. Diminutive son Ash (Jason Schwartzman, in a fine adolescent sulk) can’t measure up to his debonair ...

and Fantastic Mr. Fox is no different. Its brisk pacing keeps the catharsis from weighing down the comedy. He rests for only a moment, a single beat, on little Ash as the tears jump into his eyes, ...