The Boxtrolls

2014
PG
1h 36m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

63K

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Ben Kingsley, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Pat Fraley, Nick Frost, Nika Futterman, Tracy Morgan, Fred Tatasciore, Elle Fanning, Richard Ayoade, and Isaac Hempstead Wright in The Boxtrolls (2014)

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.

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A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.

Directors
- Graham Annable
- Anthony Stacchi
Writers
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

63K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Graham Annable
- Anthony Stacchi
Writers
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 8 wins & 61 nominations total

Shoe
(voice)
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Dee Bradley Baker

Fish
(voice)
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Max Mitchell

Baby Eggs
(voice)

Tracy Morgan

Mr. Gristle
(voice)

Nika Futterman

Oil Can
(voice)
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Pat Fraley

Fragile
(voice)
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Fred Tatasciore

Clocks
(voice)
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Isaac Hempstead Wright

Eggs
(voice)

Elle Fanning

Winnie Portley-Rind
(voice)

Maurice LaMarche

Sir Langsdale
(voice)

James Urbaniak

Sir Broderick
(voice)
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Brian George

Boulanger
(voice)
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Toni Collette

Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind
(voice)

Simon Pegg

Herbert Trubshaw
(voice)

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Trivia
More than 20,000 props were handmade for the movie.

Goofs
When the teddy bear's music box runs down, Baby Eggs hands the mechanism to Fish who gives the key only two half-turns. The music box then plays again, with its key somehow able to unwind for many revolutions. Later on after the Boxtrolls wake up, this impossibility is repeated, but is even worse since now the key winds/unwinds in the opposite direction.

Quotes
Winnie: BoxTroll Exterminators? They live down in Curds Way.
Eggs: How do I get there?
Winnie: Curds Way?
[pointing at street sign "Milk Street"]
Winnie: Milk turns into it.
[rimshot is heard]

Crazy credits
After the first part of the credits, Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles have a philosophical discussion about their place in the world while, around them, that world carries on.

Alternate versions
In the Latin American Spanish dubbing, Madam Fru Fru speaks in an Argentinean accent instead of a French one, and her song becomes a tango.

Connections
Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #50.16 (2014)

Soundtracks
The Boxtrolls Song
Words and Music by Eric Idle
Demo music arranged by Marc Mann
Arranged by Mark Orton & Ritchie Young
Performed by Mark Orton & Loch Lomond
Vocalist Sean Patrick Doyle

User reviews168

Featured review

8/10

A fun film, Roald Dahl like darkness.

We took our 3 year old son to this film, and was not expecting much entertainment for us adults. However, both my wife and I really enjoyed it and my son has been walking around in a bottomless box with holes cut in it,(for his head and arms),for two days.

It has a lot of charm and a slight edge of darkness. I am surprised that it has received such poor reviews from the critics. I have noticed they tend to rate realistic, depressing films; whereas we like happy escapist fun and this film delivers that.

We are from the UK and the voices are perhaps better known here, which may have contributed, a little, to our perception of this film's charm.