Iain K. MacLeod

February 24, 2026

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - ★★★★★

The Rules of Whackbat


Ingredients:
  • 3 grabbers
  • 3 taggers
  • 5 twig runners
  • 1 player at Whackbat

Directions:
  1. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock.
  2. The twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls hotbox.
  3. Count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by 9.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - ★★★★★


”…in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.”

It’s a perfectly realized Wes Anderson film.

Never get sick of it or noticing new details.

It’s a shame this didn’t become a franchise.

Shocked the soundtrack isn’t on vinyl.

Reviewed on 7-JUN-24

About Iain K. MacLeod

He/Him | Paid Worker. Unremarkable Hobbyist. Occasional Friend. Full-time Dad. Great-great-great-grandnephew of Angus “Giant” MacAskill. Worked skateboard check at 1994 Gobblefest in Cape Breton. Based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. aka Boost Ventilator. For more info…