Just perfect...

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

//SPOILERS//Starting off I thought maybe I'd enjoy it. Seeing the prego lady I was instantly concerned. Her baby came out as a fully grown toddler, someone send her prayers???? THEN she goes "YEET" and leaves her baby with some old lady who needs a hairstylist, and collects tears on the DL. She also takes out his heart and replaces it with a clock but idk if that is important. Then this kid goes out and falls in love with this Spanish chick cause they sang together for .000005 seconds (send her prayers too cause like random thorns kinda pop up all over her ????). THEN Edward Cullen shows up and he spittin fire like DRAKE. AND THEN Jack the FREAKING RIPPER shows up on a train. I was like HOLD UP, can we just PAUSE for a second. THIS KID j CHILLING on that train, and JACK the RIPPER starts singin him a song. I think this kiddo was a little suicidal cause he killed himself???? idk. He climbed snowflakes.////SPOILER OVER////If you wanna see a movie that gives you whiplash worse than a whip givin you a lash, then be my guest.

We think this movie is fabulous. Both my kids love it and have watched it several times. They are 7, boy and girl. They enjoy the music and artistry. some of the topics are fairly serious but I find most kids see movies for what they are, Fun entertainment. They aren't looking for deeper meaning or emotional attachments. If they want to discuss the movie content, we do , but they mostly just enjoy the show. I suppose this movie isn't for all kids. My kids also enjoy Book of Life, which is also on the odd side. As for the "jack the ripper" part ,my kids have no idea who that is. It was just a scary looking character. They didn't pay that much attention to it.

I found myself skipping through the film as I do not like the Laika- like style and animation for the beginning. So, at some points it is sub-par but others, I just hate it. The story is also not quite as interesting, it's pretty sentimental as it's about a boy with a cuckoo- clock on his heart that tells him the three rules: "Not to fall in love, not to get angry, and not to touch the hands of the clock" or he will die. Madeleine protects him from it.He then meets a little girl while wandering off that is the same age as him, singing while winding up a music box. He then starts to fall in love with her. While, I admit, this does has cute romance, I didn't care for the Boxtrolls style and animation for it.

So.. this is an interesting movie. I absolutely get that people find it exciting and different, but for me it lacks heart. If the storyline was better I think it could be great... It has progressive music and animation but that's about it...And it's not, it's really NOT for kids. I just want to say that I'm a young person who doesn't think that kids are too fragile too watch anything but Winnie the pooh, (that's not it). But this movie... It's very dark, it's extremely sexist, there's bullying (extreme), ..SPOILERyeah, and Jack the ripper is in it, singing of how he enjoys slicing up women, both redheads, blondes and brunettes, (all of em should taste some).SPOILER endsI don't know. I think it's just too much. Without any morals or warmth what so ever. So. It's a movie for grown ups. Don't watch it with your kids cause they won't get it at all, and probably end up having some terrible nightmares...