The Boxtrolls (2014) movie poster

The Boxtrolls (2014)

"Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... even rectangles."
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👍 66%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 70%
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Director
Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi
Runtime
1h 37m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.7/10 (1,772 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
78%
Metacritic
61

Cast

Ben Kingsley as Snatcher (voice) · 72% avg
Isaac Hempstead Wright as Eggs (voice) · 65% avg
Elle Fanning as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice) · 67% avg
Dee Bradley Baker as Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice) · 72% avg
Toni Collette as Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice) · 68% avg
Jared Harris as Lord Portley-Rind (voice) · 69% avg
Nick Frost as Mr. Trout (voice) · 70% avg
Richard Ayoade as Mr. Pickles (voice) · 67% avg

Is The Boxtrolls good?

It's divisive. Only 66% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 70%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#543 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#208 / 295 · 2014
On ThumbScore's lists
The Best Animated Movies on Peacock (#23)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

r/movies
⬆ 11,931💬 622 comments
End credits clip in the highly underrated "The Boxtrolls" shows how the animation is done while the characters have a haunting existential discussion.
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Top comment: "That is priceless. One of the greatest meta conversations/interactions out there."
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⬆ 6,576💬 274 comments
The first official poster for the stop-motion animated Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) from Laika (Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls)
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Top comment: "Laika is becoming a heavy contender. Each release just gets better and better. I have super high..."
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