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The Boxtrolls

  • 6.8 /10

  • 1664

  • 78%

Plot

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.

Cast

Ben Kingsley as Archibald Snatcher (voice)
Ben Kingsley

as Archibald Snatcher (voice)

Isaac Hempstead Wright as Eggs (voice)
Isaac Hempstead Wright

as Eggs (voice)

Elle Fanning as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)
Elle Fanning

as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)

Dee Bradley Baker as Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker

as Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice)

Toni Collette as Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice)
Toni Collette

as Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice)

Jared Harris as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
Jared Harris

as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)

Nick Frost as Mr. Trout (voice)
Nick Frost

as Mr. Trout (voice)

Richard Ayoade as Mr. Pickles (voice)
Richard Ayoade

as Mr. Pickles (voice)

Tracy Morgan as Mr. Gristle (voice)
Tracy Morgan

as Mr. Gristle (voice)

Simon Pegg as Herbert Trubshaw (voice)
Simon Pegg

as Herbert Trubshaw (voice)

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • September 10, 2014

Production Companies

  • Laika

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $60,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $108,255,770.00

Runtime

  • 1.62 hrs

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Reviews

'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…

"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 b…