2018 Directed by Wes Anderson
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Bryan Cranston Edward Norton Bill Murray Jeff Goldblum Bob Balaban Kunichi Nomura Ken Watanabe Greta Gerwig Frances McDormand Fisher Stevens Nijiro Murakami Harvey Keitel Koyu Rankin Liev Schreiber Scarlett Johansson Tilda Swinton Akira Ito Akira Takayama F. Murray Abraham Yojiro Noda Mari Natsuki Yoko Ono Frank Wood Courtney B. Vance Roman Coppola Anjelica Huston Kara Hayward Satoshi Yamazaki Gen Ueda Show All…
Wes Anderson Jeremy Dawson Steven M. Rales Scott Rudin Charlie Woebcken Henning Molfenter Christoph Fisser Eli Bush Angela Poschet
pretty bold of wes anderson to make a film about how propaganda is bad while simultaneously inserting blatant anti-cat propaganda throughout said film 🤔
The world is trash, and Wes Anderson is currently enjoying the hottest streak of his career. These things, it turns out, are not unrelated. The worse things get, the more fantastical Anderson’s films become; the more fantastical Anderson’s films become, the better their style articulates his underlying sincerity. Disorder fuels his imagination, and the staggeringly well-crafted “Isle of Dogs” is nothing if not Anderson’s most imaginative film to date.
There’s a whiff of inevitability to that. Whether telling a story about a splintered New York dynasty or one about a faded European hotel where it used to be possible to find some faint glimmers of civilization in this barbaric slaughterhouse known as humanity, Anderson has always been attuned to the…
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I grew up with a family dog. That, of course, involves responsibility. Walking Louie before school was a necessity, and he wouldn't let me leave without feeding him a treat. I had to pull him away from smells he found too intriguing (meaning he sniffed them for more than thirty seconds), and tighten my grip on his leash when the neighborhood Chihuahua was outside by the garage. Louie hated him, for reasons I'll never know why. I'm sure he had a good reason, or at least I hope. A family dog also involves great joy. Immeasurable, pure, angelic joy. Joy so bright and true, it can move mountains. I remember when Louie peed on the carpet after a jump-scare…
easily my least favorite wes anderson movie in the last decade, maybe he’s finally on the decline
this is still cute enough and fun enough to enjoy, i love the symmetry and the snappiness and i still smiled a lot, but the story and it’s characters and it’s dialogue feel spaced out and disconnected (it probably has something to do with the fact that half or so of the entire cast speak words that aren’t translated, leaving a gap at it’s core. some people might enjoy that disconnect, but i personally don’t) compared to the tightly wound and spring loaded films he’s put out in recent years, i can’t help but feel an emptiness here, like grasping for straws. that’s what i get for having high hopes maybe, but i’m glad some people are having fun with this
still don’t know how to rate this film but its plot is of course exceptionally great and so is it visually
Anderson is no stranger to twee affectation or stylistic influence and affectionate homage, but, for the first time, these core characteristics of his cinema overwhelm the integrity of his characters who are rendered as adorably wry, human-like balls of comic delight, the detailed visual design and excellent puppet work empty save for Spots and Chief whose relationships with Atari, and each other, are the sole sign of emotional resonance.
The weakness of the characters is compensated for by the strength of Anderson's pacing and the conspiracy thriller-cum-revolution plotting of the screenplay which propels the film forward to the into inform strains of Desplat's admirably multivalent score. But the film is ultimately hung up by the clumsiness of Anderson's appropriation of…
FULL OF GOOD BOYS
The cultural appropriation concern is bollocks, this is might be my fav movie of 2018
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