Fantastic Mr. Fox

This is an animated film version of Roald Dahl's book of the same name. Of course, in the capable hands of Wes Anderson, this is clearly not aimed at children, even though the dreaded f-word is replaced by the word cussing.

The Mr. Fox in the title was formerly a thief of birds but promised to retire after his wife became pregnant. Life as a newspaper writer, however, does not a happy fox make. Eventually, with the help of the slightly weird Kylie, he breaks his promise and raids not the farms of Boggis, Bunce & Bean.

When the three disgruntled men come after the thieves (and shoot off Mr. Fox' tail), the entire wildlife of the area is effected by the destruction of the habitat. After everyone is initially upset with Mr. Fox, they soon team up to get the humans back by stealing, well, everything.

This leads to all-out war between the animals and the humans and it ends with the animals on the upside. They even steal back the - now detachable - fox tail. The animals move together into the extensive sewer system, that has an exit directly into the Boggis, Bunce & Bean supermarket.

Joy and happiness all around.

Quite entertaining and very weird.

7/10

The Internship

Alright, if it is free I might as well go watch an Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn comedy. Even though I hated The Wedding Crashers and normally don't get the funny in what they do.

So, I did not expect anything. This is probably the best possible mindset as it frees you to enjoy the few jokes that are actually funny.

The premise is stupid. Two salesmen get canned after their boss closes down the business without bothering to tell them. They have no skills (other than selling stuff) to speak of so one of them decides to make an application for an internship at Google that may or may not lead to an employment.

Because, see, the way they do that at Google is they split the interns into teams and give them challenges (like writing an App - most downloads win - or playing Quiddich) which will lead to one team winning and all their team members getting offered jobs.

I'm sure that is exactly what Google does.

Will Wilson/Vaughn be on the winning team?
Will whatever team win in the nick of time?
Will the kids get the Flashdance references?

Nailbiting. Totally.

4/10