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Maybe, after three adaptations of Roald Dahl short stories, I was too tired to appreciate The Rat Catcher. Because all seems a sort of mannierism, seductive when you discovere first, not very pleasant later.

A story with horror reflections about Rat Man, his work secrets, his failure and demonstrations. But than Ralph Fiennes is a great actor is a certitude and the subject is so...dirty than far to be the most temptanting.

I suppose, a film for the fans of Roald Dahl. Applauding the Netflix series, being grateful to Wes Anderson art, it seems only...too much.

With the good thoughts about Swan, my favorit from series, I saw The Rat Catcher as the last tricks demonstration of show..

Garage owner Claude has a rat problem. He hires an expert to deal with the problem. The Rat Man is truly an expert in his field to the point of resembling a rat himself. While Claude and his employee are fascinated by his methods they are also quite unsettled by him.

Another of Wes Anderson's four-episode short story-series, all adaptations of Roald Dahl stories. The others in the series are The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan and Poison.

Wes Anderson adapting a Roald Dahl story seems a perfect combination: the clever innocence of Dahl's writing, Anderson's whimsical, stylised direction. It's been done before, to great effect; 'Fantastic Mr Fox' (2009) was brilliant.

Having already watched two of Anderson's Roald Dahl-based short films, the style and presentation of the films are a given. A quirky, reasonably engaging story, narration with the narrator talking in short, bullet-point-like sentences, highly-stylised backdrops and props, great performances (in this case from Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade).

A less positive aspect has been that while the story is engaging, it has no punchline. It simply fizzles out. The Rat Catcher is no exception.

Here it is a touch worse in that the story never really seems to fully get going anyway. At least the other two had a fair degree of momentum.

Still, it's interesting and watchable enough.

Very strange fast paced short by legendary artist Wes Anderson, I can see how this has mixed vibes. I enjoy most anything by Wes but this is just weird and to complicated, the movies are much better! Rat Catcher is peculiar, slight horror vibes, and outrageous. This would be different if it was the beginning of Wes's career I think he's losing his magic touch with this sort of thing although I love the creepy vibes Wes defiantly has the potential to do horror if he wanted to. I was looking for a different short I didn't realize there's several of them they should be interesting and artsy even if not enjoyable as other projects.

The local rat-catcher (Ralph Fiennes), who bears a disquieting resemblance to his prey, is engaged to extirpate a minor infestation of the creatures. Wes Anderson's spin on the eponymous Roald Dahl short story is quite fun (in a grim way) as the resourceful Rat Man explains his various highly unpleasant methods of dispatching his clever quarry. His final demonstration of Homo's sanguineous dominance over Rattus, although largely unseen, is brutally amusing (and sadly not unprecedented considering some of the revolting blood-sports to which animals have been sacrificed in the not-so-distant past). Attention to detail may make the final lines less cryptic. Of Wes Anderson's four recent Roald Dahl inspired short films, this was my favorite.

Well now, I had not heard about this 2023 Netflix short film titled "The Rat Catcher" from director Wes Anderson prior to sitting down to watch it. And truth be told, I thought it was an animated short film actually.

I have to say that the "The Rat Catcher" turned out to be a rather unique and enjoyable viewing experience. The story, as written by Roald Dahl and interpreted by Wes Anderson, was oddly entertaining and enjoyable. And the way that it was brought to the screen was some of the most memorable display I have seen in a long, long time.

There are three people on the cast list; that being Richard Ayoade, Ralph Fiennes and Rupert Friend, and some doing some stagehand performances as well. I rather enjoyed the performances of the three actors with speaking parts. And there was just something very unique about it as well, which made it rather memorable and outstanding.

I was genuinely surprised with "The Rat Catcher", and while it is certainly not something that will just sit easily with everyone in the audience, then this is certainly a short film that I would recommend you to sit down and spend 17 minutes on. I was genuinely and wholeheartedly entertained by this unique piece of cinema.

My rating of "The Rat Catcher" lands on a seven out of ten stars.