iTunes Exclusive Episode Isle Of Dogs

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My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast, and, uh...any
nothing wrong with a little Tom Agdahl every once in your life?
Just saying.
I'm not alone for this episode, joining me in the co-hostshare, as he does, is my co-host.
And a man who sometimes feels like he's on an island.
He is chat.
Yes I do.
I really, really do.
Next to him is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who can sing islands in the stream, both parts by himself.
You may know him as Fondango, but as Mama name him, Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Welcome, sir.
Islands in the street.
That is what we are.
I blame the place.
I blame the place.
I guess I kind of asked for that, didn't I?
Yes you do.
The day is the newest member of the cast.
And a man who has two very large dogs in his home, and whenever I come by to visit, they
could not be more excited to see me to the point where we may have to start drugging them.
He is Alex.
Welcome, sir.
You're assuming they're not already drugged?
That's fair.
That is a fair assumption.
And I blame him.
Although to be fair, the food is, or the drug is food, which is explaining the size.
Yes, that is true.
Here we do one of these things.
It is to review something.
This is no exception to that.
Wes Anderson is back with his second stop motion animation film.
It is called Isle of Dogs.
For start this whole video?
Yes, sir.
They can't win everybody at Sliphawks.
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We're such fans of those guys.
They give us the opportunity to see films before they're released so we can talk to you
guys about them so you can make the best choices for your entertainment dollar possible.
Here is what you need to know.
This takes place.
I guess you could call it an alternate universe.
It is.
What?
Maybe.
Because it still sits in Japan.
But it's still kind of an alternate universe kind of a thing.
It's a dystopian future because the city doesn't exist.
Okay.
It's Megasaki City.
In Japan.
Yes.
Large, rice wine city?
Yes.
Okay.
And this is the high brow comedy you can come to expect from this show.
So nobody dropped a quarter in you.
You have a mayor who's actually part of a mayoral dynasty in the city.
His name is Mayor Kobayashi, voiced by Kunichi Nomura.
And he makes this mandate that all of the dogs in the city need to be taken to this
thing called trash island.
Which is abandoned and all they do, they dump their garbage there.
Because there's this flu that has taken up all of these dogs, which then leads to a bigger
deal that starts affecting their sinuses and it's infecting all the dogs.
So he signs a decree that has all of the dogs in the city taken out to trash island.
Now the very first dog that's sent out there is a dog by the name of Spots.
And Spots is actually the guard dog for the mayor's orphaned nephew named Atari.
So you're with me so far.
He kind of says, the prove the point, I'm sending my dog, my, my, my worst dog off.
And Spots is played by the League Shriver.
You guys know him, he's been voice of HBO sports.
So Atari decides one day he's going to, he's played by Koyu Runken.
He takes a plane.
He's going to go find Spots, but the plane crash lands on trash island where he is greeted
by a pack of dogs where you have chief voiced by Brian Cranston.
You have Rex voiced by Ed Norton.
You have King voiced by Bob Balabon, not Bob, blah, blah, completely different thing.
And you have Duke voiced by Jeff Goldblum.
And they end up boss Bill Murray.
Oh, did I miss that one?
You're right.
Bill Murray plays Spots.
That is.
Start out.
Yes.
I haven't even done brother.
Oh, no.
I haven't even done.
So they go off an adventure to try to find Spots and find out what's going on.
Meanwhile, back in the city, you have a, what do you call that, an exchange student named
Tracy played by the Greta Gerwig who feels she has uncovered this conspiracy by the government
because there might be an ulterior motive here, which we won't talk about, but you'll
see it when you see it.
It's one of those because it's one of those, it kind of sneaks up on you.
And when you see it, you're like, ah, see what you did there.
So she goes off on her with her protests about bringing the dogs back because they think
that a cure for it's been found, but the government's suppressing it to keep the dogs off the
mainland.
You all right over there, son?
I'm looking at the cast.
Oh, we weren't done yet.
I mean, we're talking voices from Francis McDorman, who plays an interpreter because they
tell you in the beginning of the film that they don't dub the people's voices, but all
barks have been translated.
But Johansson is in this.
She plays one of the dog's Harvey Kitell is in this in a very small, but pivotal role.
F. Murray Freak in Abraham is in this.
I didn't even know you were still alive.
Greta Gerwig is in this.
I said that.
I think did she think right?
She plays the exchange.
Thanks for staying with the show.
I forgot that one.
Um, you'll go on, isn't it?
But also, um, till the Swinton Ken Wantson, knobby homie, Fisher Stevens, Courtney
B. Vance is the narrator, who you know, I'm a huge fan of.
And one of my favorite credits, I don't know if you caught this down in the end credits.
What's it?
Angelica Houston's in it, but she is, she plays Mute Poodle.
Okay.
That is literally how she's listed.
That's literally how she's listed.
I hit the joke.
And Alex Ormond.
He's in it.
I mean, this is, this thing is chock full of people.
And it, I mean, it's, and it's, it's that, again, it's that stop motion style of animation
that they use in the fantastic, Mr. Fox.
This runs about an hour 45.
Now understand, because it's not motion animation, doesn't mean this is for everybody.
There are some mature themes that run through this, that you may have to answer some, because
it's PG 13.
So you may have to answer some questions in the car if you take the little ones to this.
But I'm going to say this.
I love this movie.
I'm not a huge West Anderson fan.
Like everything West Anderson does is very West Anderson, whether it's the Royal Tenobomb
films, whether it's the Grand Budapest Hotel, which I liked.
I did too.
Fantastic, Mr. Fox.
Like his style, and I say this in my written review, currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
That his style is so unique that SNL actually did a sketch of a West Anderson horror film.
That's hilarious because it's absolute truth.
But the thing about this film that sets it apart from his other films, and this could
be my favorite West Anderson film.
I've never seen Steve's issue, but that didn't really do much for me anyway.
But that one is really niche.
Yeah.
And it's one of those, if I'm bored one day, it's not, I might step down, but I'm not
going out of my way.
The story here is so rich.
And it's, there are themes here of how we treat people who are different and governments
versus the common people.
There are some, and it's not real preachy, which is not, I think, you'll agree with
because you and I write this screening.
It doesn't get real preachy, but the message is there.
I kind of disagree.
Really?
I found that subliminal.
This is hidden today's political world, which I put my written via www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
Eventually, that's our website.
But when you really think about it with the, and I know we don't want to be political
on the shelf, right?
Sometimes we have to target.
Well, there are some political themes through this, but I'm saying is it doesn't really
get too much in your face.
It's there.
You know it's there, but it doesn't try to.
It doesn't get preachy, but it really has a point of where the press is like, I'd
say it like Fox News is to Trump, and how they say the mayor is right and all that, and
they don't look at the truth and everything like that, and I hate to be political.
But I mean, I mean, it's definitely, it could be seen that way for sure, but it didn't
take me out of the film, which I like, which I mean either.
This is a really well told story, and I really like, and you and this is something else
that you and I disagree on because I read your review because I edited it.
Is there anything left?
No, it's all there.
Okay.
For the most part.
I mean, granted, I just put a bunch of Rob is awesome in there.
You had a tough time separating the actors from the characters, where I really didn't.
I thought everybody's voice casting was really well done to the characters they played, and
I kind of got at a certain point, I'd forgotten Bill Murray was in it, and he's in everything
was in it.
I mean, Gobloom.
Gobloom's great though, I was wondering if that was a distinct one.
Gobloom's voice is distinct, but his character is very, so you heard the rumor about this,
right?
That's like, that's his whole character to the whole thing, no matter what the situation
they're in.
So you heard the rumor about this, right?
And it fits his voice so well.
The neurotic sound.
Yes.
I disagree.
Don't be wrong.
I mean, I love the characters, and they had great emotion, but when you heard Bill Murray,
I'm sorry, you know Bill Murray, and that's a double-edged sword for having such a person
with that distinct voice.
You're going to know his voice, just like Gobloom, even a little bit with Norton.
I knew that was Norton.
That was Norton.
I didn't get it out of my mind like I did for some reason.
That's what I could.
I really did.
But like with the rock and Moana, that's a different, I was able to get me.
See, I wasn't.
It took me a while to get the rock in the animated form.
Well, yeah, to me with Moana, I eventually got there, but it took me a while to get there
with Dwayne in Moana.
This, I mean, there are people like, I knew that was Francis McDormand, I knew that was
Scarlett Johansson, I knew that was Greta Gerwig, but it didn't, the story so engaging and
the characters are so well constructed that it didn't really bother me.
And I like how, and this is kind of what Wes Anderson does, but the way the story unfolds
is very graphic novelly, where it's like act one.
And then they'll do a flashback, but they'll say flashback, the secret tooth, you know.
And because that does play a role, but I just, I really, really, really liked this film.
It's one of those I laughed out loud more than once.
It's, it caught me from the get-go.
You know, I like the kid that plays Atari.
You never know what he's saying, because they don't translate it.
But you get what he's saying by the actions that they use.
And it's, there's an adventure aspect to this that I really dug.
There's a scene where they're going through an abandoned amusement park.
You know what I'm talking about, Doc?
That's nothing short of hilarious.
Because like they're going through the abandoned amusement park.
And Atari sees, sees a detraction.
And at this point, it's just him and chief, because they've gotten, the group's gotten separated.
And chief's like, no, we got to go this way.
And he like, inches this way towards the right, he's like, no, and there's this back in
the form.
That's a complete role reverse, basically.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you know, chief is a stray, whereas the rest of them were domesticated.
So there's that dynamic to the, to the five dogs too in the pack that I thought was really
cool, because as the story unfolds, you see, you see the evolution of chief's character,
which I really, really dug as well.
Now my part, I love the comedy.
There were a lot of great comedy jabs throughout this film.
And better comedy in most West Anderson, like West Anderson has this really quirky sense
of humor.
But this is an English fool, right?
In this, in this film, because we don't want to be country specific, in this film, it
wasn't as for lack of a better term, high brow humor.
It was just good humor.
That's more universal, I think.
But I think, like you're saying, I love the comedy, I loved a lot of that stuff.
But again, West Anderson, that choppy style, that fantastic fit, Mr. Fox, that's called
stop motion animation.
I call it choppy.
You gotta give me that.
You're asking him to use an extra syllable.
I'm just one of those guys who, I didn't find, I'm not a big fan of that style, but some
people love it, and that's fine.
But don't get me wrong, there were times where this movie got real emotional, which I really
love.
Great, great.
It's all good to hear.
And back to the voiceover things, I knew as Murray all the way through, unfortunately,
I can't get out of my head.
But this movie got emotional, and how they were able to do all this emotion, just through
vocals.
Yeah, the voice talents was incredible.
So I mean, it was really good.
The movie time, it's about now 45 long.
It was a too long, but the movie flowed well and stuff, and stuff like that, but I'll tell
you the one person whose voice you just know right away, but he's so great, and he's
not in it very long.
But his role, like, you know who it is, and you don't care, just because you're glad
he's there.
It's Kitell.
Like, you go in, that's Harvey Kitell, yes, I'm in.
This film was a little too long, I thought, it's 10, 15 minutes cut out, but still, it's
West Anderson, so you have to know what you're getting in with it.
That's true.
You know, so, I did like it.
I just found it too long.
I'm not that big fan, I will say it exceeded my expectations.
Oh, me too.
I soon do it.
Alex has a standup.
Is Kitell in a Tarantino joke format for this?
I wouldn't say so, but I still have a Tarantino joke for a long time, that is a greater than
zero level, but not full blown.
It's one of those, because my problem is, no matter what Harvey Kitell does, I see
politician in my head.
No.
Okay.
Well, I can't say no, completely, did he hang out at a reservoir?
Well, they all did, really, at that point in the film.
I was specifically going dubbed a wolf, but there's, but there is, we'd have to talk about
it off air, because it's, there's an aspect to it, yes, but not all the way.
Got you.
Any other questions you gentlemen have before we get to the final analysis on this?
No, no, you guys go ahead.
Don, anything else you want to bring up?
No, I think I'm good.
Alright, the way we do the final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs
up, thumbs down, we're not going to give you letter grades, numbers, George Clinton's,
anything like that.
We're going to ask two questions.
Question number one is, would we see this film again?
If the answer's no, then we're done here.
But if the answer's yes, then it's how far are we willing to go to see it?
And from the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how it works.
Full price first run, down to a twilight showing, down to a matinee, down to early morning
on the weekends, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to leaving your house
and going to see it, get it from red box, streaming it to Netflix, or watching on a cable.
Don, would you see Isle of Dogs again?
Yeah, I would.
How far you want to go to do it?
How many minutes is Saturday afternoon?
That's fair.
I would definitely see this again.
I think I'm right there with you.
You need to see this on the big screen and a really good presentation so you can see
just everything on the screen and just how brilliant it looks.
And it's so much fun.
Or remember, PG-13-4, it is Wes Anderson, it is Isle of Dogs.
For a little thing, yes, I think Kate, when they're made, it's live, Fox, Z-N-E, Z-N-E, Z-N-E, Z-N-E, Z-N-E, Z-N-E.
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