SvennoJ on 22 November 2015
Finally made time to sit down and watch the Boxtrolls 8/10
Amazing stop motion animation, Laika has surpassed Pixar in creativity for me. Now they just need to work on more original stories. However despite it being predictable it's still awesome.
The extras were great as well. The mecha drill consists of 600 moving parts, with an iPad mini at the center to simulate the fire behind a bit of distorting glass. It needed a huge hydraulic arm to keep the whole thing up. Everything worked on it, great bit of engineering.
Plus it has the coolest end credits ever :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_MTFzm27A
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