"The Isle of Dogs"

Friday night we went to see the newest Wes Anderson film called “The Isle of Dogs.” We’ve been long overdue to see a movie as I can’t remember the last time we went to the cinema.

Even though Andrew felt the movie unfairly discriminated against cats (at least in the sense that they were hardly featured in the movie considering how much the Japanese like their cats – I mean Hello Kitty anyone?), he still enjoyed the film and agreed with the article in the New Yorker about “What ‘Isle of Dogs’ gets Right about Japan.” *

*https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

Basically all the dogs in Japan are banished to Trash Island following an epidemic of Snout Flu. A young boy (reminiscent of The Little Prince) flies to the island crash landing his plane while looking for his childhood companion, Spots.

Some of the movie is in English, some in Japanese (only part of which is actually translated, but you don’t miss much). I found the young boy’s (named Atari) English commands to be rather amusing and the refusal of one of the dogs to take orders (he must have rebel tendencies).

Overall a really cute film without being overly sentimental. My only question is what did the few children in our audience think of it? They all sat through it patiently, so I guess they must have liked it.