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From: CAP Category: Art Date: 20 January 2010 Time: 07:59 AM Review: Robert Downey Jnr as the new Harry Potter? I'd go and see it. I didn't see Sherlock Holmes because those I was with wanted to see Fabulous Mr Fox. I'm accommodating. There was a lot I didn't understand about FMF. I don't think they were real foxes for a start, and somehow I failed to recognise George Clooney's voice as Mr F (I thought it was Mel Gibson). At first I thought it was meant to be a pisstake of Wallace and Gromit - but given some clever clever 3-D animation twist. It's hard to believe it's just stop-frame animation. Why did all the humans have English accents? Where was this supposed to be again? Where is it exactly that badgers live with beavers? I don't know what Wes Anderson's problem is, but I think he and that Noah dude should give it a rest. Oh yeah Owen Wilson's voice is somewhere in there as well....