{"id":6167,"date":"2015-03-22T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2020-10-17T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:11:07","slug":"the-boxtrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-boxtrolls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boxtrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You&#8217;re the worst pickpocket I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230; Here. Buy a book on how to be a better thief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boxtrolls<\/strong>, released in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Humans and boxtrolls don&#8217;t get along very well &#8212; humans think boxtrolls steal their babies and eat them, and boxtrolls are afraid of humans and only come out at night. Boxtroll numbers are dwindling &#8212; the boxtroll exterminators have gotten good at their job. But one of them isn&#8217;t really a boxtroll &#8212; he&#8217;s a human that&#8217;s been raised as one. The movie is filled with glorious Tim Burton-esque stop-motion animation. It&#8217;s thrillingly original and screamingly funny. Stars the voices of Ben Kingsley and Richard Ayoade.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Graham Annable (animation department on <strong>Coraline<\/strong>) and Anthony Stacchi (animation department on <strong>The Rocketeer<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You&#8217;re the worst pickpocket I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230; Here. Buy a book on how to be a better thief.&#8221; The Boxtrolls, released in 2014 Humans and boxtrolls don&#8217;t get along very well &#8212; humans think boxtrolls steal their babies and eat them, and boxtrolls are afraid of humans and only come out at night. Boxtroll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16667,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}