History YMMV / FantasticMrFox

** Is Ash gay or [[TransAudienceInterpretation transgender]]? [[TakeAThirdOption Or both?]] Or bisexual? The film leaves it ambiguous.

* OlderThanTheyThink: While this is Creator/WesAnderson's first animated film, he had previously dabbled into the medium five years prior in ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'', which featured several stop motion animated sequences by Creator/HenrySelick.

* OlderThanTheyThink: While this is Anderson's first fully animated film, he had previously dabbled into the medium five years prior in ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'', which featured several stop motion animated sequences by Creator/HenrySelick.

* AdaptationDisplacement: More people tend to be familiar with Wes Anderson's film than they are with the original book by Creator/RoaldDahl, to where some are unaware that it was an adaptation at all.

* AdaptationDisplacement: More people tend to be familiar with Wes Anderson's film than they are with the original book by Creator/RoaldDahl, to where some are surprised that it was an adaptation at all.

* AdaptationDisplacement: More people tend to be familiar with Wes Anderson's film than they are with the original book by Creator/RoaldDahl, to where many might be surprised that it was an adaptation at all.

** Bean [[https://youtu.be/b6xoL76TbnQ trashing his office]] has been used as a reaction clip in forums and message boards.

* {{Squick}}: Taken UpToEleven with details of how the farmers stink, don't take baths, have horrible-tasting disgusting food, etc.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Kylie for being both {{Adorkable}} and UglyCute.
** Petey, mostly for being voiced by Music/JarvisCocker, and for his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W460QxYQgh4 song]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Kristofferson and Kylie for being both {{Adorkable}} and UglyCute. There's also Petey, mostly for being voiced by Music/JarvisCocker, and for his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W460QxYQgh4 song]].

* UncannyValley:

** "[[https://youtu.be/DqS0MaoozCM?t=41 If what I think is happening, is happening...it better not be.]]"

%%** The humans... oh god, the humans...

* FoeYay: Rat with Mrs. Fox. "Am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?!"

** Is Ash gay or transgender? [[TakeAThirdOption Or both?]] Or bisexual? The film leaves it ambiguous.

** Is Ash gay or transgender? Or both? Or bisexual? The film leaves it ambiguous.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment

* PopularWithFurries: The film has quite a huge following with furries, given the fandom's long-standing appreciation for anthropomorphic foxes.

* MemeticMutation: "[[NonSequitur You wrote a bad song, Petey!]]"

* HilariousInHindsight: What with [[Disney/{{Zootopia}} another film]] featuring a LoveableRogue fox having since come out, the scene involving [[spoiler:blueberries being shot via projectile and related to drugs]] is amusingly specifically similar.

* EarWorm: ''Boggis, Bunce and Bean...''

** A strangely built up one that nonetheless has only the smallest thematic connection to the film. [[spoiler: Throughout the film, it's repeatedly stressed that Fox has a phobia of wolves. At the very climax of the film when speeding away from the farmers on a motorbike, intense music still playing, they suddenly stop and see a wolf. The wolf doesn't attack them or say anything and it stands against a strangely icy background. The protagonists wave at it, wish it well, and then slowly drive home, the chase apparently having ended.]]

* HoYay: With the AmbiguouslyGay or Ambiguously Trans portrayal of Ash, his interactions with Kris can be read in rather interesting ways in the second half of the movie, especially when he forces Agnes to go away just to talk to Kris. What makes it even funnier is the fact that they are cousins. Their interactions feel a bit like [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]], at least until they start practicing yoga together at the end...

** The humans... oh god, the humans...