Monday, March 19, 2018

Isle of Dogs









Writer/Director Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is a wonderfully charming Japanese-based tale of 12-year-old Atari (voice of Koyu Rankin), the ward of Trumpian despot Mayor Kobayashi (voice of Kunichi Nomura), who has banned all dogs to an isle off the coast that had been used as a garbage dump. 

Atari’s dog Spots (voice of Liev Schreiber) was the first to go and Atari steals an airplane to go in search of Spots.   On the isle, he meets up with a stray named Chief (voice of Bryan Cranston) and four other victim dogs, including Tracy (voice of Greta Gerwig), Boss (voice of Bill Murray), Duke (voice of Jeff Goldblum) and King (voice of Bob Balaban), who aid him in his often grueling search.
 
Anderson’s genius is in his use of the Japanese lore and music in the telling of this fascinating tale, co-developed with Roman Coppola, Kunichi Nomura and Jason Schwartzman.  The animation is unique and extremely interesting.


Isle of Dogs should appeal to audiences of all ages, but does, ideally, require reading ability on the part of the children.

I give Isle of Dogs a 4.2 out of 5.

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