Anderson's 2017 stop-motion Isle of Dogs had breathtaking artwork—and lots of off-putting racially insensitive stuff.
Wes Anderson's first animated film and first adaptation is based on Roald Dahl's 1970 book, about a standoff between farmers and a cunning family of foxes. True to the spirit of Dahl, and all-time family film great Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox is confidently odd and frightening in a way few movies of its ilk aspire to be. Anderson's 2017 stop-motion Isle of Dogs had breathtaking artwork—and lots of off-putting racially insensitive stuff.