2014 · animation · comedy · family
The Boxtrolls
Directed by Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi1h 37m2014
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
Our read: The Boxtrolls (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- tender
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How The Boxtrolls feels to watch.
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“You want quirky Laika stop-motion about misfit trolls, class snobbery, and found family.”
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