A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash
collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on
the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow.
Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi
Writers: Irena Brignull (screenplay), Adam Pava (screenplay), 4 more credits »
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
THE BOXTROLLS are a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of a city called Cheesebridge. The story is about a young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors who tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator, the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher. When Snatcher comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls. Eggs decides to venture above ground and "into the light," where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save The BoxTrolls family. The film is based upon the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow.User Reviews
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.
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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