Review Isle of Dogs (2018)

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Isle of Dogs is an upcoming American stop-motion animated adventure film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Produced by Annapurna Pictures & Indian Paintbrush, the film will feature an extensive ensemble voice cast, featuring Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, and Bob Balaban among many others.

The film is scheduled to be released on March 23, 2018, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.


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Isle of Dogs
Director: Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Moonrise Kingdom”)
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson
Details: Even amongst Wes Anderson films, his first animated feature “Fantastic Mr. Fox” remains unique – a lovingly crafted stop-motion animated film based on the Roald Dahl classic and still one of the best of the genre in the past decade. Now he returns to the stop-motion fold with this tale which he says has been influenced by the filmmaking style of the great Akira Kurosawa. Trailers for it look simply gorgeous, even better than ‘Fox,’ and it offers a welcome light after a particularly weak 2017 on the animation front.

The story is set in a future Japan where all the dogs have been rounded up and quarantined on an island to stop a pandemic. When the son of the mayor behind the initiative has his pet dog taken away, he heads to the island to search for his lost friend Spots with the help of five canines. The casting is incredible with Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, F. Murray Abraham, Frances McDormand, Courtney B. Vance, Mari Natsuki, Harvey Keitel, Liev Schreiber, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Yojiro Noda and Yoko Ono. A must-see.
 

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Early Reviews Hot On “Dogs,”


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Wes Anderson’s new stop-motion animated feature “Isle of Dogs” is scoring raves. Currently at 95% and with an 8.1/10 average score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has been praised as Anderson’s most visually luscious and inventive film with a refreshing dark center and lack of sentimentality, but there have also been criticisms of the cohesiveness of the writing.
 
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