{"id":34513,"date":"2018-03-29T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/29\/isle-of-dogs-review-wes-anderson-unleashes-a-cracking-canine-caper-peter-bradshaws-film-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:00:16","slug":"isle-of-dogs-review-wes-anderson-unleashes-a-cracking-canine-caper-peter-bradshaws-film-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=34513","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Dogs review \u2013 Wes Anderson unleashes a cracking canine caper | Peter Bradshaw&#039;s film of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in a dystopian Japan of the future, the animated story of a boy\u2019s search for his lost pet is crammed with visual inventionIt\u2019s set in Japan, though east London\u2019s Isle of Dogs just happens to be a short drive from 3 Mills Studios, which did a lot of the work on this film. So maybe our Isle of Dogs influenced the director, Wes Anderson. Or maybe he chose the title because it sounds like: \u201cI love dogs.\u201dIsle of Dogs is another utterly distinctive, formally brilliant exercise in savant innocence from Anderson, somewhere between arch naivety and inspired sophistication. I laughed a lot, not really at jokes, but at its hyper-intelligent stabs of visual invention. It\u2019s a stop-motion animation \u2013 like his Roald Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) \u2013 visually controlled to its every analogue micro-particle, a complete handmade world. The screenplay is by Anderson, along with Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and the Japanese actor and writer Kunichi Nomura who was also casting director and voices the villain of the piece \u2013 the dog-hating Mayor Kobayashi. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/mar\/29\/isle-of-dogs-review-wes-anderson-bryan-cranston-animation\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Dogs review \u2013 Wes Anderson unleashes a cracking canine caper | Peter Bradshaw&#039;s film of the week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in a dystopian Japan of the future, the animated story of a boy\u2019s search for his lost pet is crammed with visual inventionIt\u2019s set in Japan, though east London\u2019s Isle of Dogs just happens to be a short drive from 3 Mills Studios, which did a lot of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}