Review of Isle of Dogs (2018) by Jluis_001 — 11 May 2018

After a week of medium films and the huge hoarding of Infinity War in theaters, I had the opportunity to watch Wes Anderson's new film.

Certain part of me has come to believe that his films are not for the massive audiences and I curse the distributor for releasing it in my country just a week after Infinity War.

I will not go deep into it, I just can only say that I loved it. I loved every second and I was delighted and although the story is too thin, it sustains enough to keep the film completely in the right place.

The animation is beautiful, the vast majority of the puppets have different distinguishable features, like the dogs, which speaks of the great level of detail. The same goes for all the sets wich are pretty great.

The cast of voices is of first level with quite a few of the director's well-known allies and although I don't usually mention this kind of stuff I must say the ridiculous criticism of the way in which Wes Anderson let the Asian characters speak only through something or someone translating them is just that; ridiculous. It's evident that this was the narrative approach that he decided to give to the story and it works very well.

Stop seeing racism everywhere. When everybody starts to feel victimized that's when people begin to forget the real victims.

But in a final note I must say that I highly recommend it and I will undoubtedly run to acquire it as soon as it is for sale.