The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

2017 • 83 min • Family · Animation · Comedy

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Synopsis

The countryside isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus.

Our family guide

Best from age 6

Movie Knight Score

322 reviews

100 Reviewers · 1 · 51%
77 Audience · 321 · 49%

This animated film presents three charming tales from a rural farm, featuring a fox who unexpectedly mothers chicks, a rabbit and pig delivering a baby, and a duck determined to become Santa Claus. These interconnected stories offer humorous and heartwarming adventures.

Violence & peril: 2/10
Language: 1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 0/10
Romance & sensuality: 0/10
Scary moments: 2/10

Heads up

Some slapstick humor involving minor mishaps.
Characters might be briefly scared or in peril.

What it models well

Unconventional families and parenthood
Helping others
Teamwork and friendship
Finding your purpose

Talk about it after

What makes a family?
Why it’s important to help people even when it’s inconvenient.
The difference between intentions and outcomes.

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Top billed cast

Director: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner • Crew: Benjamin Renner, Jean Regnaud

Trailers & clips

Big Bad Fox & Other Tales Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Indie

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
The eponymous critter takes centre stage as if he were leading a Scaramouche-style commedia dell'arte, the curtains draw back and after a few false starts, we are now in for eighty minutes of family animation that follows the tales of his and his companions. We begin with the weary stork that's fed up flying around trying to deliver a baby and so he deposits it with the fox, the pig, the rabbit and the duck.…
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