Isle Of Dogs Review: 7 Ups & 2 Downs

5. The Terrifically Imaginative Script

You can always count on an Anderson film to scrawl outside the lines, and his latest certainly does that, with another unique setting accompanied by a distinctly dystopian gloss for added measure.

Cleverly riffing on real-world history while rolling it into contemporary political concerns (but more on that later) and offering up a dizzying spin on the typical "boy and his dog" tale, Isle of Dogs feels nothing if not utterly singular in approach and execution.

Every scene bristles with invention both stylistically and thematically, and it's clear as day why the script attracted such a ridiculous bevy of household names (his prior success and collaborators notwithstanding).