Not just Anderson, but still more Anderson animated.
It's quite the leap to suddenly declare all dogs as evil, but that's the set-up we get. Following that, we get a young boy trying to get his dog back, and there is a group of dogs that will help him, and will those dogs be able to save the day? There is also a B-plot with a young girl, but that feels so incidental that it could have been easily lifted out.
One issue with this is the stylistic approach of Wes Anderson here is great to look at for individual frames of the movie but... the dogs are more like very staged creatures, ie they aren't dogs. There is Dogs As People metaphor, but this goes beyond that to not even having dogs as dogs. (And I don't entirely follow that the dogs would act as they do here, but that's a big ask of the movie to get invested in what is going on.)
Again, good cast, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, and others, but again the stilted nature of Wes Anderson does make these dogs come across rather oddly.
I did enjoy this as I watched it, but thinking back on it now... clearly I have some issues. But hey, in the time, I did enjoy watching this.
We had two animated Andersons, of which one was a Roald Dahl adaptation, so next...
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