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| Cast |
Voices of Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum |
| Director |
Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi |
| Screenplay | Irena Brignull, Adam Pava, from the novel by Alan Snow |
| Music | Dario Marianelli |
| Editing | Edie Ichioka |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Made in | 2014 |
| Produced by | Laika Entertainment |
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| Genre | Animated |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Low impact and frequent |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| PG: Parental Guidance Suggested | Rated PG for action, some peril and mild rude humor |
| Runtime | 96 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 9 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs  I was never bored by what transpired and there are enough entertaining and winning elements and moments to lift this above mediocrity. It's just too bad that with as much love, time and effort that obviously went into turning stationary objects into living creatures, the same wasn't also applied to the script to make it reach the same heights. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 36 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 142 critics | 14 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While it's far from Laika's best offering, The Boxtrolls is still packed with enough offbeat wit and visual splendor to offer a healthy dose of all-ages entertainment. | 15 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Imaginative adventure has lots of peril, nasty villain. | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 50 users | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 34224 users | 13 | |
| Internet 6973 Netizens Horrible Movie for Children | 14 | |
Average .. 69% | 14 | |