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The Boxtrolls
Directed by
Graham Annable
,
Anthony Stacchi
PG
2014
1h 37m
Adventure
,
Animation
,
and more
6.8
78%
63%
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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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Cast of The Boxtrolls
Ben Kingsley
Snatcher (voice)
Isaac Hempstead Wright
Eggs (voice)
Elle Fanning
Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker
Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice)
Toni Collette
Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice)
Jared Harris
Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
Nick Frost
Mr. Trout (voice)
Richard Ayoade
Mr. Pickles (voice)
Tracy Morgan
Mr. Gristle (voice)
Simon Pegg
Herbert Trubshaw (voice)
Nika Futterman
Oil Can / Knickers (voice)
Pat Fraley
Fragile / Sweets (voice)
Fred Tatasciore
Clocks / Specs (voice)
Maurice LaMarche
Sir Langsdale (voice)
James Urbaniak
Sir Broderick / Male Workman 1 / Male Workman 2 (voice)
Brian George
Boulanger / Male Aristocrat 3 (voice)
Lori Tritel
Female Aristocrat 1 (voice)
Steve Blum
Shoe / Sparky (voice)
Laraine Newman
Female Townsfolk 1 / Female Townsfolk 2 (voice)
Max Mitchell
Baby Eggs (voice)
Reckless Jack
Background Boy (voice)
Graham Annable
Director
Anthony Stacchi
Director / Writer
Irena Brignull
Writer
Alan Snow
Writer
Adam Pava
Writer
Phil Dale
Writer
Travis Knight
Producer
David Bleiman Ichioka
Producer
The Boxtrolls Ratings & Reviews
mickerdoo
3d ago
Very classist tale. Ultimately a little too weird for me. But an otherwise impressive stop motion. Liked voice cast.
Fin
July 4, 2025
Love this movie
Complex
David Ehrlich
The antidote to the modern animated movie.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Mary Houlihan
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.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Without being didactic, "The Boxtrolls" presents the dangers of a hierarchical society, separated out into high-status and low, and also has some very interesting and moving things to say about identity, family, and morality.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's a wonderful world, full of Rube Goldberg contraptions below and colorful Dickensian squalor and excess above.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
In "The Boxtrolls," old-fashioned stop-motion animation is combined with new-style 3-D cinematography to charming effect.
Movie Mezzanine
Tomris Laffly
Directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi have done astounding work in orchestrating a dizzying amount of visual detail into the warm, earth-toned above and underground worlds of The Boxtrolls.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
The details are impressive: 190 puppets built, 79 sets constructed, 20,000 handmade props, 200 costumes, 26 locations, 56 cameras, 892 lights, 53,000 face parts.... But somehow it still doesn't add up to enough.
The Dissolve
Tasha Robinson
Boxtrolls' world is fantastically detailed and physical, with every frame crammed with complicated machinery, hand-painted textures and handcrafted props, and a sense of vast and focused attention.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Deliciously grotesque at times, but the message is a sweet one: families come in all sizes and shapes, sometimes biological, sometimes not, but what defines them is love.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Imaginative but very weird, more Monty Python than Walt Disney. Not for all tastes.
Boston Globe
Ethan Gilsdorf
Like one of its wondrously designed steampunky contraptions, "The Boxtrolls" is a marvelous thing to behold, and watch spin, even if it doesn't go anywhere terribly interesting.
Dallas Morning News
Nancy Churnin
What makes Boxtrolls truly special is how it challenges kids to consider that the true villain may be the person calling others villains.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The story of "The Boxtrolls," in lesser hands, might have turned out only so-so. Under Laika's loving, labor-intensive touch, it takes on a kind of magic.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Claude Peck
Do not think outside "The Boxtrolls." Instead, give yourself over to the movie's captivating, inventive, scary-hilarious world.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Why did the story of this huggable species' attempted extinction leave me emotionally indifferent?
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
"The Boxtrolls" remains relentlessly busy up through its final credits, and it's clever in a nattering way. But it's virtually charmless.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
One gets the sense that directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable have their hearts in the action sequences and not in the characters, and that's a problem.
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Isaac Hempstead Wright On Snatcher
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