I took the family to see Fantastic Mr. Fox, and it was okay. The climate change hoax has soured me on fantasies lately, but while Mr. Fox started dragging near the end, overall it was relatively painless. The stop-motion animation was interesting and I guess there was a pro-family message, though that message seemed to be that families should bond by engaging in criminal enterprises together. I was puzzled because for some reason the filmmaker made the heavily armed capitalists into the bad guys and the redistributionist looters into the heroes. I didn’t understand that, but I can guess how he voted in ’08.