#NowPlaying Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs





Hi! Thank you so much for taking time to check out my first movie review! My name is Jeff, and I LOVE movies. Every genre, from all over the world, big budget to micro budget. To give you an idea of the type of person you’re dealing with, last year I was equally excited to see Thor: Ragnarok and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer.





Now, I have no formal education in film, unless you count working in a video store when I was a teenager, so don’t expect me to wax poetic about technique, influence and subtle tones…I am a regular person writing reviews for regular people. Sometimes I’ll have a lot to say, sometimes only a paragraph. My main goal is to give you the same type of spoiler free review that I would give my friend that I texted as I was walking out of the theater, so let’s get into it…





Set 20 years in the future, Isle Of Dogs centers around a 12 year old boy named Atari and his search for his exiled dog, Spots, on Trash Island off the coast of Megasaki, Japan. After crash landing on Trash Island, Atari teams up with a pack of exiled dogs named Chief, Rex, King, Boss and Duke and they set off on a journey to find Spots, all the while the political leader of Megasaki, Mayor Kobayashi, is doing his damnedest to stop it from happening. Oh yeah, I should also mention this film is stop motion animation.





When this film and it’s cast was announced, I was already stoked. Anderson assembled an incredible cast of his regulars we’ve come to expect like Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray and Edward Norton, along with heavy hitters Scarlett Johansson and Frances McDormand to voice this visual masterpiece, and to be completely honest, the film far exceeded my expectations.





If you’re familiar with his movies, you know all about his quick dialogue and signature style, which Isle Of Dogs delivers in spades, but you might be quick to compare it to his previous foray into stop motion, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Where The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I love, is a stop motion family film directed by Wes Anderson, Isle of Dogs is a Wes Anderson film that just happens to be stop motion.

Isle Of Dogs is currently playing at Kendall Square, Boston Common, Somerville Theatre and Fenway and will expand to the suburbs in the coming weeks.

























Review by Jeff Haidaczuk for Do617.com