“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 ...

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.” ...

Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristopherson ... best-selling book by Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox is family fun at its finest.

After years as a smoothie thief, Mr. Fox has promised Mrs. Fox (a deliciously sly Meryl Streep) he’ll take a job and settle down as daddy to Ash (Jason ... of darkness. Fantastic Mr. Fox ...

The experience of Fantastic ... Mr. Fox's wife (here named Felicity in honor of Dahl's widow) is voiced by an uncharacteristically tamped-down Meryl Streep, while their 12-year-old son, Ash ...

The dynamic that Ash shares with his parents, his schoolmates, and particularly his cousin add charming wrinkles where “Fantastic Mr. Fox” could have been dangerously slick. Of course ...

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, ...

“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 ...

FANTASTIC MR. FOX is ... and James and the Giant Peach). Mr. and Mrs. Fox (George Clooney and Meryl Streep) live an idyllic home life with their son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and visiting young ...

In this era of photo-realising the fantastic and precision-made stop ... The story starts and finishes with Mr. Fox’s inability to settle down as he — roping in his putz of a best friend ...