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The Boxtrolls

  • 20142014
  • PGPG
  • 1h 36m
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6.8/10
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Ben Kingsley, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Pat Fraley, Nick Frost, Nika Futterman, Tracy Morgan, Fred Tatasciore, Elle Fanning, Richard Ayoade, and Isaac Hempstead Wright in The Boxtrolls (2014)
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
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A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
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    • Graham Annable
    • Anthony Stacchi
  • Writers
    • Irena Brignull(screenplay)
    • Adam Pava(screenplay)
    • Alan Snow(novel "Here Be Monsters!")
  • Stars
    • Ben Kingsley(voice)
    • Jared Harris(voice)
    • Nick Frost(voice)
    • Graham Annable
    • Anthony Stacchi
  • Writers
    • Irena Brignull(screenplay)
    • Adam Pava(screenplay)
    • Alan Snow(novel "Here Be Monsters!")
  • Stars
    • Ben Kingsley(voice)
    • Jared Harris(voice)
    • Nick Frost(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 163User reviews
    • 242Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Fred Tatasciore, and Isaac Hempstead Wright in The Boxtrolls (2014)
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    Ben Kingsley
    Ben Kingsley
    • Snatcher
    • (voice)
    Jared Harris
    Jared Harris
    • Lord Portley-Rind
    • (voice)
    Nick Frost
    Nick Frost
    • Mr. Trout
    • (voice)
    Richard Ayoade
    Richard Ayoade
    • Mr. Pickles
    • (voice)
    Steve Blum
    Steve Blum
    • Shoe
    • (voice)
    • …
    Dee Bradley Baker
    Dee Bradley Baker
    • Fish
    • (voice)
    • …
    Max Mitchell
    • Baby Eggs
    • (voice)
    Tracy Morgan
    Tracy Morgan
    • Mr. Gristle
    • (voice)
    Nika Futterman
    Nika Futterman
    • Oil Can
    • (voice)
    • …
    Pat Fraley
    • Fragile
    • (voice)
    • …
    Fred Tatasciore
    Fred Tatasciore
    • Clocks
    • (voice)
    • …
    Isaac Hempstead Wright
    Isaac Hempstead Wright
    • Eggs
    • (voice)
    Elle Fanning
    Elle Fanning
    • Winnie Portley-Rind
    • (voice)
    Maurice LaMarche
    Maurice LaMarche
    • Sir Langsdale
    • (voice)
    James Urbaniak
    James Urbaniak
    • Sir Broderick
    • (voice)
    • …
    Brian George
    Brian George
    • Boulanger
    • (voice)
    • …
    Toni Collette
    Toni Collette
    • Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind
    • (voice)
    Simon Pegg
    Simon Pegg
    • Herbert Trubshaw
    • (voice)
      • Graham Annable
      • Anthony Stacchi
    • Writers
      • Irena Brignull(screenplay)
      • Adam Pava(screenplay)
      • Alan Snow(novel "Here Be Monsters!")
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    • Trivia
      Because all of the actors and actresses recorded their parts separately, Simon Pegg was initially unaware of best friend Nick Frost's participation in the project, and vice versa.
    • 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.
    • Quotes

      Winnie: BoxTroll Exterminators? They live down in Curds Way.

      Eggs: How do I get there?

      Winnie: Curds Way?

      [pointing at street sign "Milk Street"]

      Winnie: Milk turns into it.

      [rimshot is heard]

    • 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #51.16 (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      The Boxtrolls Song
      Words and Music by Eric Idle

      Demo music arranged by Marc Mann

      Arranged by Mark Orton & Ritchie Young

      Performed by Mark Orton & Loch Lomond

      Vocalist Sean Patrick Doyle

    User reviews163

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    Not cute but clever
    There are cute children's films - like "Frozen, the first movie to which I ever took my granddaughter (then just under three) - and then there is the more challenging kind - like "The Boxtrolls" to which I took her nine months later. We haven't read the source material, the novel "Here Be Monsters!" by Alan Snow, but she knows all about trolls from "Frozen" and other stories and these are very cleverly represented through stop- motion capture by the specialist production company Laika. But it's a little bit scary for young ones, so my granddaughter held on to my hand most of the film and sat on my lap for the final third.

    For British adults of a certain age, the characters of the town of Cheesebridge look like people from a Gerald Scarfe cartoon and the subterranean habitat of the boxtrolls themselves is like a cross between the worlds of Heath Robinson and Hieronymus Bosch. The voices are very well-done and for me the best of comes from Ben Kingsley as a hard bad guy and Richard Ayoade as a soft bad guy. Stay for the credits when early on there is a little bit of existential angst on display from two of the stop motion characters.
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    • rogerdarlington
    • Sep 25, 2014

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      • September 26, 2014 (United States)
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    • 1 hour 36 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital
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