Isle of Dogs (2018)

[Athena]

Stop-motion animated comedy film written, produced, and directed by Wes Anderson. Cast includes Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, Harvey Keitel, Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham, Frank Wood and Yoko Ono.

[AimingforYoko]

I first saw a trailer for this in November. I didn't get the pun until last week.

[BetterButter]

[Danny Franks]

I'm really looking forward to this. I love Wes Anderson's sense of humour, and the stop motion looks almost as charming as it did in Fantastic Mr. Fox. And there's always something so incongruously funny about all those serious, adult, actor-ly voices coming out of scruffy looking animals.

[frogzapper]

On 4/5/2018 at 9:07 AM, Danny Franks said:

I'm really looking forward to this. I love Wes Anderson's sense of humour, and the stop motion looks almost as charming as it did in Fantastic Mr. Fox. And there's always something so incongruously funny about all those serious, adult, actor-ly voices coming out of scruffy looking animals.

I really enjoyed it a lot. The stop-motion animation looked great and I loved the voice work and the personalities and interactions of the main dogs.

I'm surprised there aren't any comments on it here yet, but then again I guess it's still in limited release right now.

Be sure to post here again after you've seen it! 

[Zoe]

This was a beautiful movie and quite possibly my favorite in recent times.

[Browncoat]

I finally got to see this and I loved it!  Certainly one of my favorite Wes Anderson films, if not the favorite (Grand Budapest Hotel gives it a run for its money).  The voice actors were outstanding, and I really enjoyed all the little animated touches like the randomly sneezing dogs, Nutmeg's fur gently blowing in the breeze, the ticks on the dogs, and the rats.  I really want to see it again and pay more attention to the background bits.

I admit, I was terribly concerned about how Spots would get out of his crate (glad he made it!), and the science behind the cure-all serum was outrageously bad.  Oh, and your kidneys aren't in the front like that, and newborn puppies' eyes aren't open.  But I loved the film despite those horribly bad details. 

[StatisticalOutlier]

On 5/15/2018 at 7:55 PM, Browncoat said:

 I really enjoyed all the little animated touches like the randomly sneezing dogs,

That was great.  And I love they way the fights are staged, with all the swirling and flying.

Afterward, Mr. Outlier said it would have benefited from a little more imagination.  (He was kidding.)