After a baby got stolen by a Boxtroll in the town of Cheesebridge, the people of the town went into a panicked frenzy. Snatcher, the town exterminator, traveled through the town snatching every Boxtroll he could find after being promised a white hat, a symbol of power throughout the town.

The Boxtrolls are shy beings who imitate turtles, and hide in the cardboard boxes they use for clothes as well a defense mechanism. The townsfolk, having never interacted with the Boxtrolls beforehand, were convinced that the Boxtrolls were evil, and that they stole their children. Misunderstood, the Boxtrolls were in fact friendly and curious beings that constructed funny machines in the sewers of Cheesebridge.

The kidnapped Trubshaw boy who was later called eggs, was nurtured by the Boxtrolls. He seemed to notice when he got older that the number of Boxtrolls were now dwindling, caused by Snatcher. It was only when Fish was taken, the Boxtroll who raised Eggs, that he decided to set out to find his lost friend, and save the rest of his Boxtroll family in the process.

“The Boxtrolls”, like the movies “Coraline” and “Paranorman”, was fabricated from thousands upon thousands of pictures put together to create one big animation film. Unfortunately, LAIKA Studios, the creators of the film, did not produce an original, and creative way to hook the viewers from the beginning. I caught myself regretting to have chosen to watch the movie in the first place. “The Boxtrolls” made a comeback, however, in that it became a more upbeat and fun loving childrens’ movie.

I recommend this film as a movie to watch with younger children, though I believe any teenager might consider this new motion picture to be boring and short.