Fresh
The Boxtrolls represents the best animated movie to reach theater screens since The Lego Movie exploded on the scene in February.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
The Boxtrolls
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... even rectangles.
2014 · 1h 37m · PG
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Graham Annable
,
Anthony Stacchi
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Graham Annable Director
- Anthony Stacchi Director
- Isaac Hempstead Wright as Eggs
- Ben Kingsley as Archibald Snatcher
- Elle Fanning as Winnie Portley-Rind
- Simon Pegg as Herbert Trubshaw
- Toni Collette as Lady Portley-Rind
- Jared Harris as Lord Portley-Rind
- Nick Frost as Mr. Trout
- Tracy Morgan as Mr. Gristle
- Richard Ayoade as Mr. Pickles
- Laraine Newman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There are many more delighted 'Ewwws' than too-easy 'Awws' in this charming, if a tad cynical, feature from the creators of Coraline and ParaNorman.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh
It's a world that runs in a parallel universe akin to that of Charles Dickens, with creatively named characters involved in seemingly outlandish adventures in a Victorian-era city where a moral or two plays out in the end.
Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
It's a felt, funny, bracingly sincere kids' movie. And even more refreshing, it takes as a theme our social fixation with waste, salvage and repackaging.
John Semley, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It's a wonderful world, full of Rube Goldberg contraptions below and colorful Dickensian squalor and excess above.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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