Review of The Boxtrolls (2014) by Mike V — 07 Jul 2016

The Boxtrolls represents a mayor downgrade from previous Laika offerings. Although it has the charm to make us like the characters and the great animation we have come to expect from Laika, it is far from being the best film Laika has given us, which to this date I still think is Coraline.

Overall, you just can't help that while watching this film( in a teenager point-of-view), that you just want to stop watching the film, because it is kind of nonsense, and is a film that was made to show off the mastery of the animation that Laika has, but with that, an absurd story was made, making this film watchable just because of the animation or to just watch with kids.

Negatives aside, you still can kind of watch it, it's just that you won't get the great storytelling we had with ParaNorman and Coraline.