The Boxtrolls

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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Film Cast:

• Archibald Snatcher (voice): Ben Kingsley
• Eggs (voice): Isaac Hempstead-Wright
• Winnie Portley-Rind (voice): Elle Fanning
• Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice): Dee Bradley Baker
• Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice): Toni Collette
• Lord Portley-Rind (voice): Jared Harris
• Mr. Trout (voice): Nick Frost
• Mr. Pickles (voice): Richard Ayoade
• Mr. Gristle (voice): Tracy Morgan
• Herbert Trubshaw (voice): Simon Pegg
• Oil Can / Knickers (voice): Nika Futterman
• Fragile / Sweets (voice): Pat Fraley
• Clocks / Specs (voice): Fred Tatasciore
• Sir Langsdale (voice): Maurice LaMarche
• Sir Broderick / Male Workman 1 / Male Workman 2 (voice): James Urbaniak
• Boulanger / Male Aristocrat (voice): Brian George
• Female Aristocrat (voice): Lori Tritel
• Shoe / Sparky (voice): Steve Blum
• Female Townsfolk 1 / Female Townsfolk 2 (voice): Laraine Newman
• Background Boy (voice): Reckless Jack
• Baby Eggs (voice): Max Mitchell

Film Crew:

• Screenplay: Irena Brignull
• Director: Graham Annable
• Adaptation: Anthony Stacchi
• Novel: Alan Snow
• Music: Dario Marianelli
• Animation: Travis Knight
• Screenplay: Adam Pava
• Animation: Stephen Bodin
• Animation: Malcolm Lamont
• Animation: Matias Liebrecht
• Animation: Brian Leif Hansen
• Animation: Payton Curtis
• Animation: Joon Soo Song
• Animation: Adam Lawthers
• Animation: Shane Prigmore
• Animation: Chris Tootell
• Animation: Kyle Williams
• Animation: Mike Hollenbeck
• Animation: Danail Kraev
• Animation: Kristien Vanden Bussche
• Animation: Adam Fisher
• Animation: Anthony Straus
• Animation: Sean Burns
• Animation: Mael Gourmelen
• Animation: David Vandervoort
• Animation: Dan MacKenzie
• Animation Supervisor: Brad Schiff
• Animation: Kevin Parry
• Adaptation: Phil Dale
• Producer: David Bleiman Ichioka
• Animation: Jon David Buffam
• Animation: Rachelle Lambden
• Animation: Gabe Sprenger
• Animation: Philippe Tardif
• Animation: Ian Whitlock
• Animation: Daniel Alderson
• Animation: Charles Greenfield
• Animation: Jason Stalman
• Casting: Mary Hidalgo
• Line Producer: Matthew Fried
• Sculptor: Toby Froud
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Jeremy Fenske
• Choreographer: Nicole Cuevas
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Claudia Amatulli
• Sculptor: Benjamin William Adams
• Set Designer: Emily Greene
• Additional Editing: Ralph Foster
• Visual Effects Editor: Todd Gilchrist
• Set Designer: Carl B. Hamilton
• Sculptor: Scott Foster
• Production Design: Paul Lasaine
• Production Coordinator: Jocelyn Pascall
• Editor: Edie Ichioka
• Art Direction: Curt Enderle
• Editorial Coordinator: Dave Davenport
• Art Department Coordinator: Zach Sheehan
• CG Supervisor: Rick Sevy
• Music Supervisor: Maggie Rodford
• Music Editor: James Bellany
• Songs: Eric Idle
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Steve Emerson
• Costume Design: Deborah Cook
• Production Manager: Dan Pascall
• Additional Writing: Vera Brosgol
• Post Production Supervisor: David Dresher
• Editorial Manager: Trevor Cable
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Brian Van’t Hul
• Additional Editing: Christopher Murrie
• Director of Photography: John Ashlee Prat
• Set Designer: Polly Allen Robbins
• Visual Effects Producer: Annie Pomeranz
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ren Klyce
• ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris
• Gaffer: James WilderHancock
• Modeling: Paul Mack
• Publicist: Maggie Begley
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Myers
• Production Design: Michel Breton
• Prop Designer: Alan Cook
• Animation: Paul Andrew Bailey
• Assistant Art Director: Phil Brotherton
• Executive In Charge Of Post Production: Ben Urquhart
• First Assistant Director: Samuel Wilson
• Layout: Daniel R. Casey
• Layout: Simon Dunsdon
• Orchestrator: Geoff Alexander
• Set Dresser: Duncan Gillis
• Third Assistant Director: David J. Epstein
• Animation: Anthony Elworthy
• Animation: Dan Ramsay
• Animation: Jan-Erik Maas
• CG Animator: Carolyn Vale
• Digital Compositors: Daniel Leatherdale
• Digital Compositors: James McPherson
• Foley Editor: Thom Brennan
• Production Illustrator: Ean McNamara
• Sound Effects Editor: David C. Hughes
• Finance: Erin Baldwin
• Finance: Jason Bryant
• CG Animator: Jeff Croke
• Conceptual Design: Stephanie Choi
• Animation Department Coordinator: Christina Mackin
• First Assistant Director: Kev Harwood
• Modeling: Coby Lorang
• Music Programmer: Jody Jenkins
• Production Illustrator: Trevor Dalmer
• Prop Designer: Joe Kortum
• Publicist: Karen Fried
• Finance: Kathy Germer
• Finance: Lydia Shields
• Digital Intermediate: Angelique Perez
• Production Design: August Hall
• Production Design: Tom McClure
• Animation Department Coordinator: Cory Rossnagel
• Character Designer: Luis Grané
• Lighting Camera: Pat Sweeney
• Legal Services: Christine Bergren
• CG Animator: Brett Schroeder
• Compositors: Nicholas Childs
• Compositors: Philip Fraschetti
• Digital Intermediate: Gus Comegys
• Foley: John Roesch
• Foley Editor: Jeremy Molod
• Post-Production Manager: Josh Rappaport
• Script Coordinator: Miriam Hess
• Musician: Richard Harwood
• Assistant Art Director: Mary Blankenburg
• Musician: Rachel Bolt
• Sound Effects Editor: Dustin Cawood
• Digital Compositors: Chris Sutherland
• Digital Compositors: Owen Revell
• Set Dresser: Matthew Brooks
• Supervising Music Editor: James Bellamy
• Systems Administrators & Support: Franklin Scheu
• Animation: Stephen Melagrano
• Animation: Todor Iliev
• Music Editor: Aaron C. Shang
• Music Editor: Jonathon Stevens
• Production Accountant: Ilene Morgan
• Visual Development: Guillaume Fesquet
• ADR & Dubbing: Carlos Sotolongo
• Character Designer: Sylvain Marc
• Foley: Alyson Dee Moore
• Foley: Dennie Thorpe
• Scenic Artist: Nancy Yeo
• Set Designer: Cod Steaks
• Sound Recordist: Frank Verderosa
• Carpenter: Douglas Miller
• Foley: Mary Jo Lang
• Software Engineer: Owen Nelson
• Thanks: Ira Ungerleider
• Third Assistant Director: Whitney G. Schmerber
• Systems Administrators & Support: John Henry Frankenhauser
• Animation: Philip Beglan
• Assistant Music Supervisor: Laura Nakhla
• CG Animator: Joe Gorski
• Second Assistant Director: Holly Werner
• Set Dresser: Jesse Gregg
• Finance: Donna Tarabella
• Finance: Yin-Yee ‘Grace’ Chung
• Animation: Florian Perinelle
• Animation: Ludovic Berardo
• Assistant Editor: Don Andrews
• Lighting Camera: Eric Adkins
• Third Assistant Director: Meredith Koch
• Assistant Editor: Nik Siefke
• Carpenter: Niles Snyder
• Foley: Chris Manning
• Foley: Jana Vance
• Modeling: Matt Burlingame
• Assistant Art Director: Alice Bird
• Animation: Dobrin Yanev
• Animation: Maximilian Graenitz
• Animation: Suzanne Twining
• Assistant Art Director: Robert DeSue
• Assistant Editor: Eiko Emersleben
• Dialogue Editor: Marilyn McCoppen
• Presenter: Chris Butler
• Software Engineer: Anthony Aiello
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Nathan Nance
• CG Animator: Kyle Bell
• CG Animator: Michelle Gorski
• Scoring Mixer: Nick Wollage
• Digital Compositors: Loren Van Wiel
• Post-Production Manager: Ashley Harrington
• Production Accountant: Bradley W. Day
• Set Dresser: Andy Berry
• Sound Recordist: Eric Stolberg
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Simon Goldfinch
• Finance: Jessica Goss
• Legal Services: Jenniphur Ryan
• Thanks: Jonathan Groff

Movie Reviews:

• r96sk: ‘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.
• CinemaSerf: “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 also a stunt double for Nicholas Hoult, too)? What now ensues is a lively and entertaining battle of wills between the exterminators and the rapidly diminishing number of trolls who have to find a way to fight back and expose “Snatcher” who has a curious doppelgänger. Whilst the story isn’t really anything new, the stop-motion animation is intricate and colourful with some really engaging characterisations extolling virtues of loyalty and friendship, a tiny hint of a romance that delivers a steadily paced and scored presentation. Good fun!