Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson’s most recent film, Isle of Dogs, is a wonderful story that is intriguing and different, along with a strong emotional impact. The story follows Atari, the mayor’s son, as he escapes home to save his lost dog, Spot. The government has banned all dogs from the city after a deadly strain of snout flu breaks out. The script is mediocre, however, the overall look of the movie more than makes up for it. Since this is an animated movie, Wes Anderson is able to play with a much larger scale than all of his other movies. This is done by making the film more of a science fiction, large scale, action film. As mentioned, the movie is visually spectacular. This movie isn’t Wes Anderson’s first attempt at an animated feature, Fantastic Mr. Fox was (for lack of a better term) fantastic, and this movie has a very similar quality. The art takes a key element from Japanese culture, which made the movie world very vibrant and exciting. A lot of the voice acting is wonderful, Bill Murray and Edward Norton being stand outs. The language barrier between the dogs and Atari was different from other movies featuring the same kind of language barrier. The dogs have a hard time understanding Atari, ergo allowing us to connect more with the dogs. The dogs themselves are all very unique, and each one ends the perfect way. Though, as I mentioned, the script is only mediocre. The dialogue certainly wasn’t the best of Anderson’s movies, although dialogue has never been one of his large strengths, though don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t call any of the dialogues in his films ‘bad.’ I’m not okay with admitting how long it took me to figure out the pun in the name, but it was worth it. In the end, Isle of Dogs is a wonderful, fantastical, animated movie by Wes Anderson. And while the script isn’t always the best, nearly every other aspect of it is really enjoyable. It’s a very fun watch, and I would highly recommend it. 8.2/10 from me

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