Isle of Dogs is fine at first. Then you think about the yellow washing. More in particular, you think about the grandparent who brought their little grandchildren to a puppet movie who end up laughing at the strange stuff Japanese people do. "Let's all point and laugh at this wacky society."

Don't. It wasn't a movie for kids and none of it was funny because of the funny stuff Japanese people do.

And that could be the problem with the film. It's like a minstrel show. Without any context, the audience points and laughs.

Damn. I just knocked a star off of this because of that.

2 of 5 stars.

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