{"id":9420,"date":"2014-11-02T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:50:05","slug":"the-boxtrolls-2014-laika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9420","title":{"rendered":"The Boxtrolls (2014, Laika)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another delight from Laika.  Think we both enjoyed this even more than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1839\">Coraline<\/a><\/em>.  Insect-eating Boxtrolls live beneath the city, taking scraps and bits of shop signage from the above world and transforming them into machinery.  Also they have a human boy who thinks he&#8217;s a boxtroll until, while fleeing from the town&#8217;s obsessive boxtroll exterminator Archibald Snatcher (whose reward for total extermination will be admittance to high-society cheese tastings), he bumps into a macabre little girl who helps him discover that he&#8217;s the long-lost son of a missing inventor.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked the armatures.<\/p>\n<p>Stop motion inventors with an obsession for cheese obviously brought to mind Wallace &#038; Gromit, so we watched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4850\">The Wrong Trousers<\/a><\/em> a few nights later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another delight from Laika. Think we both enjoyed this even more than Coraline. Insect-eating Boxtrolls live beneath the city, taking scraps and bits of shop signage from the above world and transforming them into machinery. Also they have a human boy who thinks he&#8217;s a boxtroll until, while fleeing from the town&#8217;s obsessive boxtroll exterminator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1886,505,1885,590],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-cheese","tag-invention","tag-laika","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}