I don’t understand the hype for the movie, i’ve seen it four times on my flight to Mexico, and I remember it being very disappointed by it.
I’m alright with Wes Anderson’s symmetrical camera angles, but when you look at Isle of Dogs quality and compare it to the likes of del Toros Pinocchio and Robin Robin, It doesn’t really feel as outstanding,
When you watch the film you notice that the colours are dark, the character designs are creepy as hell, there’s limited emotions throughout, and the numerous scenes with the characters barely move at all, it really left me scratching my head thinking how is this better than the others?
I couldn’t tell if the film was meant to be funny, scary or wholesome, everyone around me, cause it funny, critics call it wholesome,
And I’m the only one here, who finds it really unsettling, the love for the movie is so exaggerated the half the time I can’t tell if it’s me mind playing tricks on me or whether people are being delusional for the sake of grabbing attention, because some of the stuff most people say about the film just doesn’t feel true in the slightest.
The film is a PG rating, and when I first seen it, I thought it was just gonna be like fantastic Mr Fox, but I noticed that there was a lot of blood violence in the movie, the creepy characters are one thing, but the blood violence makes it even creepier, I never felt like there was any clever context for why the characters were in them situations I felt like it was happening for the shock value, and I was actually surprised when I found out the film was in fact a comedy, if it all goes dark humour, then they did a really bad job because it’s not executed in a way that feels funny.
Fantastic Mr Fox may have been a creepy movie, but at least they had more emotions and expressions, and the film treated its happy, ending in a way that felt like a happy ending. Isle of Dogs had a happy ending too, but even with it, the characters still seemed depressed, the only emotions I remembered scene from the film was angry, sad, and confused, and throughout the four times I watch the film, I didn’t recall seeing a single character smile. Of course movies don’t have to be 100% happy, but Isle of Dogs shouldn’t be this unhappy especially with a happy ending, because it just makes the characters seem unlikable.