If you had not told me Isle Of Dogs was a stop-motion animated movie, I would not have guessed it. Everything onscreen was too fluid to be stop-motion, and this must be some new and improved technology behind it.
This is probably my favourite Wes Anderson film. Anytime dealing with man's best friend, it will be an easy sell.
The story brought to the forefront the subject of loyalty and animal cruelty, and even though not done in the most subtle manner, but they were all in good taste. This was a wonderfully directed film by Anderson, and beautifully created.
All the canine characters had wonderful personalities, brought to life through a very Wes-Anderson-style of dialogue and expressiveness of tone by a great cast that included Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Liev Schreiber and Jeff Goldblum.
Additional voice-acting in smaller capacity included Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand and Ken Watanabe.
There were, however, a couple of instances that the plot point did not translate that well through the animation and had me pondering for a while. And somewhere in the middle I thought the story lost a bit of steam.
But as a whole, this was a great story, told in a way on Anderson could; while using both English and Japanese. The Japanese culture and style of movie-making was used prominently to great effect; and the transition did not feel out of place at any point in time.
And the best part was the Anderson-humour, even when it came to just labeling things onscreen; there was always that tongue-in-cheek way of looking at things.
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