Due Process: Fantastic Mr. Fox

That settles it. This is the first kids movie I'll be purchasing for my baby. She's only one month old (she might correct me to say a month-and-a-half), but I have very little faith that a more cleverly-written and directed kids film will arrive anytime before her third birthday. Probably even by her fifth.

George Clooney reprises his role as Danny Ocean, believably stumbling his way through marriage and fatherhood, all while taking on big business, Fern Gully-style.

The crotch-kicking fart-joke reliance of most other kids films--let alone their movie trailers--has me facepalming before I even turn the DVD box over, but that's probably why Fantastic Mr. Fox so winningly succeeds: It's not a "kids movie." At least there's no crotch-kicking, and I didn't hear a single fart joke, which pretty much knocks it out of the kids movie category nowadays anyway. Verdict: [A]