Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Torrin-McFinn77 I did not catch Boxtrolls when it was in theaters, but I did rent it without any expectations and enjoyed it. Stop motion animation and clever characters, plus relatable themes all combined for a neat little package. And a lot of good voices too, some from old TV shows. It may be a little scary for the youngsters but I got over my fears of movie monsters years ago and I still liked the movie. It didn't scare me at all. It's like one of those paintings with weird and unusual creatures dominating center stage. Now that it's 2018 I don't know if I remember a lot. But it was fun!

Robert Reynolds This film was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Feature, losing to Big Hero 6. There will be spoilers ahead: I'm of decidedly mixed feelings about this film. On the whole, I did find it enjoyable. The animation is good, the voice work was extremely good, the other technical aspects were decent, the pacing was good. Yet I couldn't escape the relative ordinariness of the plot and the script.It's an obvious and somewhat derivative script, for one thing. Outsiders shunned by the world and even hunted down for being different. One of them, our hero, decides to fight back, contends against their enemies and wins out.There's nothing inherently wrong with this. The basic plots of some of the greatest films, books and plays would sound almost as ordinary if stripped to their basics. The problem here is more or less in the execution. Unfortunately, the film hinges on literally every adult being crazy, evil, stupid or some combination of those or it falls apart. Not one of them is able to summon up any sense except one of the main villain's henchmen and he comes to that rather late in the film.There are two characters who show any determination or intellect for most of the film-Eggs, a human boy raised by the box-trolls and Winnie, the daughter of the town leader, a cheese-obsessed nitwit with the sense God gave a light bulb. Lord Portley-Rind is led down the garden path by the villain, Snatcher (even the character names make plot points obvious from the start). It's obvious just who Eggs is almost immediately and it's just a matter of the film running its course.There's little in the way of suspense to this and, depending on just how many films like this you've seen, you can just about tick off plot devices as you go, until the guaranteed moment when the villain receives his comeuppance and sentiment turns around in the favor of the outcasts. There's a fair amount to like here, but I wish they'd done a bit more work on the script.This film is available on a Blu-Ray/DVD combo and it looks particularly nice on Blu-Ray.

robtromp I am rarely amazed by animated movies. Most of the ones my kids begged me to watch with them I slept through. But this one kept me up well past my bedtime. Imagine every metaphor done to perfection - every cliché exposed, every cultural norm questioned - all in a way that most people won't even be perceptive enough to notice. It's hard to talk about this film without giving spoilers or falling into the traps laid by those who don't want you (or especially your kids!) to watch it. I can only assure you it is that rare combination of great entertainment and great art. I hope a few will believe me before falling victim to the real "trolls". And nothing is subversive - unless you think the truth of being human is subversive.

yo-56 This movie clearly motivates itself around good vs. evil and Nazi/holocaust plot themes, but the delivery is poor due to the overuse of 4th-wall breaking meta-dialog, which involves characters that are supposed to be dumb underlings talking intellectually/philosophically about their misgiving in their role in the lead character's scheme. A better script would have shown occasional pangs of guilt or confusion in an otherwise clueless character, offering more emotion and subtlety and inviting empathy on the part of the audience. Instead, the overwrought dialog is too on-the-nose for adults, yet too complex for children. The lead villain (Snatcher) is simultaneously quite brilliant yet also remarkably dense at times (such as in the first cheese-eating incident, where the henchman run intellectual rings around him, for some unmotivated reason). I suppose this conjures up old Gargamel (Smurfs), who plays this duality brilliantly in the original cartoons, but it somehow doesn't play well here. The henchmen characters also make frequent references to the story as if they were outside of it. This is an inside joke for the writers, presumably, but it's really not all that funny for the rest of us. Nothing is gained by taking us out of the story experience; the joke is stale (and not cleverly executed).The animation is wonderful, however, and I believe it's actually stop-motion, not computer animation, which makes it really phenomenal.