In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
I was very fond of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's first stop-motion animated faire. Isle of Dogs less so. It's most certainly not a bad movie, but my expectations were pretty midling and, personally, they were not met.
Final rating:½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didnt quite work as a whole.
Now as someone with a bit of an hate/hate relationship with mans best friend, the idea of rounding them all up and shoving them on an island where nobody needs to worry about abandoned bags of their crap littering the place up sounded quite appealing. Atari, however, doesnt share my disdain for these smelly critters and so decides that he is going to try and track down his own mutt after it had been deposited onto the Isle of Dogs. He is the adopted son of the hereditary mayor Kobayashi of this Japanese community and so when his attempt to retrieve his long lost pal goes a bit awry, the authorities mobilise gadgets galore to try to return him to civilisation. Meantime he has fallen in with a disparate pack of hounds who are determined to he...