American Empirical Pictures
Indian Paintbrush
Scott Rudin Productions
Studio Babelsberg
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Isle of Dogs
Loyalty has a scent. And it smells like rebellion.
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.
- Original title
- Isle of Dogs
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $35,000,000
- Revenue
- $72,991,435
CinemaSerf
May 25, 2025 · via TMDB
Now as someone with a bit of an hate/hate relationship with man’s 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, doesn’t 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 help him find his erstwhile companion - and it’s soon a race against time before his dad plucks him back alone for some proper delousing. Of course, as he bonds with his new friends he discovers all about the deadly disease that was responsible for their incarceration in the first place and concluding that a vaccine might be in order, decides it is time to confront his old man and get these flea-ridden mongrels back marauding our streets again. This is quite possibly my favourite Wes Anderson film as it marries some quirkily effective animations with some solid characterisations and a really quite enjoyable story of curiosity, teamwork and loyalty. Along the way, there is plenty of detail from the surrounding imagery and plays on words and phrases to only thinly veil criticism of not just the not so subliminal concept of product placement itself, but of many of the products it places, too. The writing keeps the plot moving along entertainingly and though I usually don’t much like films that personify dogs (even Disney ones) this is a compact and frequently quite funny review of mankind’s attitudes to their pets. If only we put half this energy and dedication into looking out for each other! Good fun.
Gimly
Aug 12, 2020 · via TMDB
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, didn’t quite work as a whole._
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Bryan Cranston
Chief (voice)
Koyu Rankin
Atari Kobayashi (voice)
Bob Balaban
King (voice)
Edward Norton
Rex (voice)
Bill Murray
Boss (voice)
Jeff Goldblum
Duke (voice)
Kunichi Nomura
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Akira Takayama
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Greta Gerwig
Tracy Walker (voice)
Ken Watanabe
Head Surgeon (voice)
Frances McDormand
Interpreter Nelson (voice)
Nijiro Murakami
Editor Hiroshi (voice)
Harvey Keitel
Gondo (voice)
Liev Schreiber
Spots (voice)
Scarlett Johansson
Nutmeg (voice)
Tilda Swinton
Oracle (voice)
F. Murray Abraham
Jupiter (voice)
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator (voice)
Yoko Ono
Assistant-Scientist Yoko-ono (voice)
Mari Natsuki
Auntie (voice)
Yojiro Noda
News Anchor (voice)
Frank Wood
Simul-Translate Machine (voice)
Roman Coppola
Igor (voice)
Anjelica Huston
Mute Poodle (voice)
Kara Hayward
Peppermint (voice)
Ryuhei Matsuda
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Erica Dorn
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Jake Ryan
Junior-Interpreter Ernie (voice)
Takayuki Yamada
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Kozue Akimoto
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Shota Matsuda
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Elaiza Ikeda
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Taichi Kodama
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Erica Dorn
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Adam Stockhausen
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Erica Dorn
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Tristan Oliver
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Wes Anderson
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Barney Pilling
Additional Editing
Andrew Weisblum
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Ben Adler
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Douglas Aibel
Casting
Kunichi Nomura
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Eli Bush
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Carl Woebcken
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Christoph Fisser
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Eli Bush
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Henning Molfenter
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Jeremy Dawson
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Scott Rudin
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Steven M. Rales
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Wes Anderson
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Alexandre Desplat
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Simon Rhodes
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Candela Palencia
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Elie Chapuis
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Rachel Larsen
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Matias Liebrecht
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Tim Allen
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Antony Elworthy
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Kim Keukeleire
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Wes Anderson
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Jason Schwartzman
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Kunichi Nomura
Story
Roman Coppola
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Wes Anderson
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