Isle of Dogs (2018)

With Isle of Dogs director Wes Anderson returns the retro stop motion animation style of his 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox. I was concerned this movie might just feel derivative of the earlier work and run out of steam, but it held its own, I'd say it's probably even better then the previous film. Isle of Dogs is dry, funny, idiocentric and quirky (the human characters mostly talk Japanese, sometimes untranslated, while the Dog's  speak English). There are a heck of a lot of characters in the thing, most of them neurotic, and they are voiced by a range of celebs from Bryan Cranston to Yoko Ono. In short it is a Wes Anderson film, and if you are open to his particular sensibilities, lightly Disneyfied,  you should enjoy this, if your instinctual reaction to hipsters is to punch them, you still might like this. I recommend, but note the PG-13 rating. ***1/2