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Best movie of this year hands down!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

'The Boxtrolls (2014)' is Laika's weakest effort for sure, but is still a charming and beautifully animated stop-motion feature that might skew slightly younger than the studio's other flicks but still retains its own edge which allows it to sit comfortably in the realm of family entertainment, as opposed to entirely childish fare. The story itself is quite contrived and yet does take a couple of risks in the latter half which pay off pretty well. There's an underlying darkness not quite as apparent as 'Coraline (2009)', 'ParaNorman (2011)' or even 'Kubo And The Two Strings (2016)', but it still dares to go deeper than most films of the kind and, as such, tells a nuanced and properly exciting tale. It's really the amazing aesthetic that will carry you through the entirety of the swiftly moving piece, though. While the flick may not affect you emotionally, it will surely make you smile once or twice. 7/10

Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi direct this fun-filled animated film based on the novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow. In the Victorian era village of Cheesebridge, a young orphan boy Eggs(Isacc Hempstead Wright)is raised by a fun-loving group of Boxtrolls that are underground cave-dwelling trash collectors. Above is a community that is obsessed with class, wealth and above all else...stinky cheese! The young orphan finds out that he is a real flesh and blood boy from a little girl named Winnie(Elle Fanning). With her help, Eggs will try his best to save the Boxtrolls from an evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher(Ben Kingsley).Smaller children may have bad dreams, although there is a likable hero and a nasty villain and of course a happy ending. This should be fun for all age of viewers. Other stars lending their voices to this enchanting movie: Dee Bradley Baker, Jared Harris, Tracy Morgan, Steve Blum, Richard Ayoade and Nick Frost.

I viewed this on DVD from my public library. It has a number of interesting extras on the DVD, and a couple of time-lapse shots of an animator sequentially moving the claymation figures to generate an animated sequence.When I initially tried to watch this I turned it off after maybe 10 or 12 minutes. It was too ugly and dark to be fun. A few days later I tried again and it really picks up after 15 or 16 minutes when the story gets above ground again.It is a strange fantasy city where an ogre of a man and his helpers have convinced the general population that the Boxtrolls are monsters, they kidnap and eat children, citing the disappearance some 10 or so years earlier of a baby. The Boxtrolls are sort of like Hermit crabs, taking a discarded shell for their homes. But these discarded shells are cardboard boxes, and each gets his name from what was in the box originally, like "Eggs" or "Fish." They live underground and come out at night to collect items that have been discarded and make things with them. And in fact, the boy called Eggs, now about 10, was raised by the Boxtrolls because the boy's father, afraid the ogre would kill him, asked them to take him. When Eggs finally dresses like a normal boy and goes above ground, he finds out the lies being told about the Boxtrolls and helps to make things right.The movie is filled with fine voice actors, and I will mention three. Ben Kingsley is the main bad guy, Archibald Snatcher, who loves cheese but has an allergy and a very bad reaction (swelling of hands, feet, face) when he eats even a tiny bit. Newcomer Isaac Hempstead Wright is the boy, Eggs. And Elle Fanning is the girl Winnie, who starts out as a spoiled rich girl but ends up helping Eggs.This doesn't seem to be an animated movie for kids, in fact it may be hard to state what the target audience is, but it is interesting especially for the great job they did with the animation. However it will never become one of my favorite animated movies.

The summary explains my reaction after watching Boxtrolls. I didn't like it i didn't hate it. It was like i have seen a film which was good for one time but i don't want to remember it again. What i am saying is that it was not one of those movies you discuss after you've watched it. Boxtrolls is about a boy who is parented by some cave dwelling creatures. I saw that some great actors have given their voices to the characters. The subject is new, no doubt, but i was getting bored after watching 20 min of it. Then the pace of the movie rises. It starts to throw different situations on the screen to make you laugh, to make you cry, to smile in admiration etc. All i am saying is if you want a movie that should be easy going and you don't want to stress your mind afterward thinking about it, here it is. You'll have a good time watching it. It will not be a profound experience but it will do.