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…
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
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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…
Wes Anderson made Isle of Dogs to tell us all that he loves dogs. If you love dogs, you may find some amusement in Isle of Dogs. I can’t say that I love dogs, but I can say Isle of Dogs. It’s somewhat amusing if you can overlook all the unnecessary references to Japan, which Isle of Dogs has done to trick us all into paying money to watch Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs reflect on how much he loves dogs.
There's nothing particularly deep or meaningful here, but it was incredibly charming and entertaining and that's all I really wanted. Loved just about every character and cast member, but Tilda Swinton's pug is the real star.
I should also say even though I really enjoyed it, I think that the criticisms re: the film's handling of Japanese culture and characters and it's orientalist tendencies are completely valid and worth examining.
I really liked it. The animation is well done and I enjoyed a lot of the actors doing the voice work. It doesn't have the emotional depth that I feel like a lot of Wes Anderson's other movies have but that doesn't make it any less entertaining. It was something different from him, which I appreciated. The story is very simple but it works very well for what the movie is trying to accomplish. In a way, it feels very soothing thanks to the pacing and the tone despite the very serious tone. Not my favorite of Anderson's movies but still worth seeing.
some quick thoughts :
- Wes Anderson's gender politics are uncomfy
- His visuals are like, obv, great
- A teeny bit of fetishizing Asian culture
- Dear God was everything spelled out clearly for the audience
- Seeing a dog cry will always fuck me up real good
- Probably the most *meaning* a Wes Anderson film has ever had
I love love fantsastic mr fox so I was so excited to hear wes was making another stop motion film. I have been waiting months for this movie. I finally got to watch this. and I was defiantly not disappointed. I loved everything about it.
I LOVED the score. the whistling the characters made was also just beautiful and added so much to the movie. it was very similar to fantastic mr fox in that way.
the cinematography, wow. every shot was a piece of art. like that’s not even being dramatic there wasn’t an ugly shot in this movie. it was very wes anderson I loved it.
one thing I think that bugged me a bit was that there…
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