"The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox" Lives Up to Its Name

[John Funk]

"The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox" Lives Up to Its Name

Doing a barrel roll just doesn't cut it for Fox McCloud anymore.

If you never caught Wes Anderson's superb 2009 adaptation [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo] of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, you missed out. It was certainly an oddball of a film, but it was an extremely entertaining one, too.

[collegehumor=1948884]

The folks at College Humor decided to give everybody's favorite vulpine starfighter pilot a similar treatment. What you see here is a (fake) trailer for a (nonexistent) upcoming film, The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox - a story of the trials faced by Fox McCloud after he realizes that you just can't use the boost to get through life.

It's shot in the same stop-motion style as Fantastic Mr. Fox, though the characters are just as expressive as you could imagine - and it has a quirky charm about it that's impossible to ignore.

Plus, it repurposes classic Star Fox 64 lines in a whole new context. Really, the entire video probably won't make you laugh, but it'll definitely make you smile.

(MTV Multiplayer [http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2011/03/10/fantastic-mr-star-fox-is-fantastic/])

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[cardinalwiggles]

i very much like this. college humor has some very funny ideas.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I can't let you make that movie, Hollywood.


(Yes, I'm aware it's a joke).

It would still be better than if this was turned into a movie though...

Spoiler: The horror...

 

[Baresark]

FANTASTIC! I watched the Fantastic Mr. Fox on whim one night, when I couldn't sleep. It's a great film, and this trailer picked up the feeling perfectly, haha. Good job College Humore, I knew there was a reason I like you.

 

[Timbydude]

I laughed at the "I can't let you do that, Star Fox".

CollegeHumor makes some pretty funny parodies.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I laughed at the "I can't let you do that, Star Fox".

CollegeHumor makes some pretty funny parodies.

The Dora the Explorer one is the best.

 

[TheHaunted]

Its a nice trailer, college humor always does good work.

It would still be better than if this was turned into a movie though...

Spoiler: The horror...

Ugh, its like a poster for Brokeback Great Fox packed in with a sequel of itself. I really wish they'd invent brain bleach already.

 

[Vanbael]

That was awesome, and I laughed at all the lines. Falco's "Hey Einstein, I'm on your side." made me laugh. Good parody.

 

[Timbydude]

I laughed at the "I can't let you do that, Star Fox".

CollegeHumor makes some pretty funny parodies.

The Dora the Explorer one is the best.

Agreed; that's by far my favorite thing they've ever made.

For those who haven't seen it:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1941782

 

[ckam]

That was actually kind of cute... How odd...

 

[Yopaz]

Oh College Humour, why did I stop watching you? Oh, right... because I spend several hours on you. I miss yuo though, grat parody of Starfox.

 

[KeyMaster45]

That was amazing, I'd actually love to see a more fleshed out version of that beyond just a trailer.

 

[DevilWolf47]

College Humor has a few hits and misses with their videos, but their fake movie trailers tend to be pretty entertaining. This wasn't the best, but hey. Better than the prank movie where someone crushes a rabbit.

 

[Ekit]

College Humor are very hit and miss, but this was hilarious.

 

[The Bandit]

I can't let you make that movie, Hollywood.


(Yes, I'm aware it's a joke).

It would still be better than if this was turned into a movie though...

Spoiler: The horror...

That was terrifying.

 

[Jumplion]

Maybe it's not the movie that needs to be made. Maybe it's me that needs to make myself...

Hilarious. Though, I've always wondered, how do you do a barrel roll in space?

 

[Zeroresistence]

This needs to be a real movie

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Not nearly as funny as the $00pah NiN10Doh video:

 

[Tim Latshaw]

I loved Anderson's movie and I love this parody. And do the lines of any other game get used in so many different contexts?