Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Bryan CranstonChief (voice)
- Koyu RankinAtari Kobayashi (voice)
- Bob BalabanKing (voice)
- Edward NortonRex (voice)
- Bill MurrayBoss (voice)
- Jeff GoldblumDuke (voice)
- Kunichi NomuraMayor Kobayashi (voice)
- Fisher StevensScrap (voice)
- Akira TakayamaMajor Domo (voice)
- Greta GerwigTracy Walker (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
The unique charm of Isle of Dogs is its bottomless vault of curios, its sly humor, playful graphic inserts and dexterous narrative detours. - 91
The Film Stage
One does not necessarily have to be fond of canines in order to love Isle of Dogs, but it helps. It may also help to have a fondness for the meticulous craft of stop-motion animation itself or, even more interestingly perhaps, for Japanese cinema. It is a delightful, exquisitely-detailed production. - 90
Screen Daily
So lush with gorgeous detail it’s like a piece of highly-textured haute couture, there’s also a sharp social message behind the elaborate seams. - 83
IndieWire
The staggeringly well-crafted Isle of Dogs is nothing if not Anderson’s most imaginative film to date. - 83
The Playlist
As far as representation goes, the stunning, brimful, extraordinary Isle of Dogs can’t really be said to do anyone’s culture a disservice. Except cat lovers, who should probably mount a boycott. - 80
The Guardian
There is so much detail in the breakneck race from image to image that Isle of Dogs will reward multiple viewings as much as any Anderson film, visually if not narratively. - 80
The Telegraph
This is by some measure Anderson’s weirdest concoction ever, in all sorts of good ways. And it probably counts as his most daring, too. - 80
CineVue
The film is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, full of deadpan observations – a quintessential Anderson touch – and exciting sequences.
