It’s often been said – “if only they could talk”. Now, in director’s Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation Isle of Dogs, the dogs do – and humans don’t come off well in comparison.
Anderson, the director of independent hits including Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and another stop-motion, Fantastic Mr Fox, has assembled many of his usual collaborators, including Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand.
He’s also added the voices of Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber, for the film, set in the futuristic Megasaki City in Japan, which has a corrupt mayor who happens to be a cat lover.
“Fake news” is spread by the authorities about the dogs being a health hazard, and most of the city’s canines are hounded out of the city and exiled to a wasteland called Trash Island. There, the dogs must work together to avoid extinction and find their (still) beloved owners.
