The Boxtrolls (2014)
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... even rectangles.
Director: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi · Writers: Irena Brignull, Adam Pava
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.
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Director
Graham Annable
Anthony Stacchi
Cast
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) User Reviews (2)
'The Boxtrolls' has parts that I like, but overall I found it slow-moving. I enjoyed the Boxtrolls themselves, I like how they look and come across. Archibald (Ben Kingsley) and bodyguards, Messrs Trout (Nick Frost) and Pickles (Richard Ayoade), are good, as is the casting of Jared Harris as Lord Charles Portley-Rind. With that said, I liked them individually rather than as a group. Frost and Ayoade being the key examples, despite being two of the same character I never felt a connection between them. Elsewhere, I rate Isaac Hempstead Wright and Elle Fanning as actors, but I don't feel like their voices suit the respective roles of Eggs and Winnie. The stop-motion animation is strong, but I just feel the plot is brought to life in a sluggish manner; the ending particularly felt dragged out to me. All in all, it's an average film in my eyes.
"Snatcher" is determined to get himself a white hat! Why? Well that symbolises his membership of the town's elite - and it gets him to the table for the cheese tasting, and boy does he like cheese - even if it doesn't particularly like him! The scornful "Lord Portley-Rind", though, is having none of this - until, that is, he is promised that they will be rid of the evil, menacing, baby-stealing box trolls. OK, he has a deal - and together with his three henchmen starts apprehending these curious nocturnal creatures. Are they really the danger he purports, though? After one raid, we escape with "Eggs" and "Fish" down into the subterranean cavern where they live. They are a community, looking out for one and other and living the lives of box-clad "Wombles" - recycling as they go. It turns out too that "Eggs" isn't really a troll, but maybe he is the now grown-up missing infant (and maybe a…
