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The Boxtrolls (2014)

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A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.

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Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar.

Another 8 wins & 60 nominations.

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User Reviews
7 September 2014 | writetodannyhere
8
| A fun film, Roald Dahl like darkness.
We took our 3 year old son to this film, and was not expecting much entertainment for us adults. However, both my wife and I really enjoyed it and my son has been walking around in a bottomless box with holes cut in it,(for his head and arms),for two days.

It has a lot of charm and a slight edge of darkness. I am surprised that it has received such poor reviews from the critics. I have noticed they tend to rate realistic, depressing films; whereas we like happy escapist fun and this film delivers that.

We are from the UK and the voices are perhaps better known here, which may have contributed, a little, to our perception of this film's charm.

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Trivia

More than 20,000 props were handmade for the movie.

Quotes

Archibald Snatcher: Wake his Lordship. The unspeakable has happened, We must speak of it immediately!
Lord Portley-Rind: What is is, Snatcher?
Archibald Snatcher: BOXTROLLS HAVE COME AND STOLEN A CHILD!
Lord Portley-Rind: Gasp, no.
Archibald Snatcher: There no doubt, picking their teeth with his adorable baby bones, by now.
Lord Portley-Rind: Horribly tragedy.
Lord Portley-Rind: Lets deal...

Goofs

When the teddy bear's music box runs down, Baby Eggs hands the mechanism to Fish who gives the key only two half-turns. The music box then plays again, with its key somehow able to unwind for many revolutions. Later on after the Boxtrolls wake up, this impossibility is repeated, but is even worse since now the key winds/unwinds in the opposite direction.

Crazy Credits

After the first part of the credits, Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles have a philosophical discussion about their place in the world while, around them, that world carries on.

Alternate Versions

In the Latin American Spanish dubbing, Madam Fru Fru speaks in an Argentinean accent instead of a French one, and her song becomes a tango.

Soundtracks

Quattro Sabatino
Music and Lyrics by Dario Marianelli
Performed by Peter Harris, Alex Tsilogiannis, Thomas Kennedy and Edmund Saddington

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Plot Summary

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Genres

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Details

Release Date:

26 September 2014

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$17,275,239 28 September 2014

Gross USA:

$50,837,305

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$108,255,770

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