Fantastic Mr. Fox

Four anthropomorphic animals wearing goggles and helmets ride motorcycles. The animals appear to be a fox, a rabbit, a badger, and a rat, with the fox in the front and the other three in a sidecar.

Based on the story by Roald Dahl, this stop-motion film, directed by the beloved Wes Anderson, tells the tale of the noble, charming and fantastic Mr. Fox who uses his wits and cunning to plan a heist against the three local farmers.

Devil-may-care Mr. Fox quits chicken thieving to start a family with Mrs. Fox. Twelve years later, he leaves his columnist job to rob poultry from three mean farmers who devise a plan to trap Fox and others in the burrowing animal community. Together with his friends and neighbors, Mr. Fox saves his animal community and beats the farmers at their own game.

Part of our "Stop-Motion Sundays" series. Courtesy of 20th Century Studios and Criterion Pictures.