Rating of
3/4
Anderson's new foray into stop-motion territory
cacb3995 - wrote on 05/25/18
In 2009 Wes Anderson directed the stop-motion film “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, which was met with great commercial success and critical acclaim, earning an Academy Award nomination for best Animated Feature, with some even claiming it deserved to win. Nine years later he’s back at it with an adventure that involves animals and humans, a great deal of his characteristic deadpan humour, and thousands of perfectly symmetrical shots. Visually stunning, charming and with a really big heart, “Isle of Dogs” is a worthy addition to Anderson’s already impressive canon.
The story takes place in Japan in the near future. An outbreak of the canine flu has lead the cat-influenced-government to take the drastic decision of sending all infected dogs to an island that is basically a trash wasteland, a dump where all the country’s contamination lands. A few months after the bill is passed the Mayor’s young orphan nephew Atari (Koyu Rankin) steals a plane and goes to Trash Island with the sole purpose of finding his missing dog. There he meets a pack of dogs, four ex-house dogs and one astray (Bryan Cranston), and they’ll all team up to find Atari’s lost companion, Spots (Liev Schreiber).
Full review at: https://breakingthefourthwallsite.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/isle-of-dogs-andersons-new-foray-into-stop-motion-teritorry/
