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2016 film by Travis Knight

Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings poster.png

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Travis Knight
Screenplay past
  • Marc Haimes
  • Chris Butler
Story by
  • Shannon Tindle
  • Marc Haimes
Produced by
  • Arianne Sutner
  • Travis Knight
Starring
  • Charlize Theron
  • Art Parkinson
  • Ralph Fiennes
  • Rooney Mara
  • George Takei
  • Matthew McConaughey
Cinematography Frank Passingham
Edited by Christopher Murrie
Music by Dario Marianelli

Product
company

Laika
Distributed by Focus Features

Release dates
  • Baronial 13, 2016 (2016-08-13) (Aggrieve)
  • August 19, 2016 (2016-08-xix) (United States)

Running time

 102 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $60 million[two]
Box function $77.5 one thousand thousand[3]

Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American stop-motion blithe activity fantasy movie directed by Travis Knight (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by blitheness studio Laika. It stars Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, Rooney Mara, and Matthew McConaughey.

The film revolves around Kubo, a young boy who wields a magical shamisen (a Japanese stringed instrument) and whose left eye was stolen during infancy. Accompanied past an anthropomorphic snow monkey and beetle, he must embark on a quest to defeat his mother's evil Sisters and his ability-hungry grandfather, the Moon King, who is responsible for stealing his left centre.

Kubo premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival and was released by Focus Features in the United States on August nineteen to critical acclaim, just was a box office thwarting, grossing $77 million worldwide against a $sixty 1000000 upkeep. The picture won the BAFTA Award for All-time Blithe Film, and was nominated for University Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Furnishings, becoming the second stop-motion animated film e'er to exist nominated in the latter category following 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the beginning film to exist nominated for both.

Plot [edit]

In feudal Japan, a 12-year-old boy with simply ane middle named Kubo tends to his ill mother in a mountain cave about a hamlet. He earns their living by magically manipulating origami with music from his shamisen for the village folk, telling the tale of his missing father Hanzo, a samurai warrior. Kubo is never able to finish his story, as he does non know what happened to Hanzo and his mother cannot recall the end due to her deteriorating mental state. His mother warns him not to stay out afterward dark equally her Sisters, and his grandpa, the Moon King (who took his eye when he was a infant) will find him and take his remaining eye.

1 solar day, Kubo learns of the village's Bon festival allowing them to speak to deceased loved ones. Kubo attends but is angry that Hanzo does not appear from his lantern, and forgets to render home earlier sunset. The Sisters rapidly find him and attack, but his mother suddenly appears and uses her magic to transport Kubo far abroad, telling him to find his father'due south armor.

Kubo wakes up in a distant land to find Monkey, his wooden snow monkey charm, has come alive. Monkey tells him his female parent is gone and the village destroyed. With assistance of "Little Hanzo", an origami figure based on Kubo's father, they set out to find the armor. Along the fashion, they run across Protrude, an amnesiac samurai who was cursed to have the form of a stag beetle/human hybrid just believes himself to accept been Hanzo's apprentice.

Kubo, Monkey, and Beetle repossess the "Sword Unbreakable" from a cavern guarded by a giant skeleton. They cross the Long Lake in a foliage boat to locate the "Breastplate Impenetrable" deep underwater. Kubo and Beetle swim down to retrieve it and encounter a bounding main monster, the "Garden of Eyes", who first uses its many eyes to entrance its victims by showing them visions of secrets, then eats them. Kubo is defenseless in the creature'south sight, but while entranced, comes to realize that Monkey is the reincarnated spirit of his female parent. Beetle rescues the unconscious Kubo and obtains the Breastplate, just on returning to the boat, they discover that Monkey has been badly wounded fighting and vanquishing one of the Sisters.

They go to shore to recover, where Monkey explains that she and her Sisters were ordered by the Moon King to kill Hanzo, but she instead cruel in love with him, and the Moon Male monarch branded her an enemy. That night, Kubo dreams of meeting a blind elderly man, who points him towards the "Helmet Invulnerable" in Hanzo's abased fortress. They travel there the next day but realize too late it is a trap set by the Moon Rex and the remaining Sister. The Sister reveals that Beetle is Hanzo, whom they cursed for taking his mother away from them, and kills Hanzo. Monkey sacrifices herself, buying Kubo the fourth dimension to employ his shamisen to vanquish the Sister, breaking two of the iii strings on it. Lilliputian Hanzo provides insight to Kubo that the Helmet is actually the bell at the village, and Kubo breaks the last string to quickly travel there.

At the village, Kubo meets the one-time homo from his dream, who is revealed every bit the Moon Male monarch. He offers to take Kubo'southward other eye to make him immortal, just Kubo refuses. The Moon King transforms into a behemothic Dunkleosteus-like dragon, the Moon Beast, and pursues Kubo and the remaining villagers into its cemetery. When the armor proves ineffective, Kubo removes it and restrings his shamisen using his mother'southward hair, his father'southward bowstring, and his own hair. With the instrument, he summons the spirits of the villagers' loved ones, who show the Moon King that memories are the strongest magic of all and can never be destroyed. Kubo and the spirits' magic protect themselves and the villagers from the Moon King, stripping him of his powers and leaving him a mortal human without any memories. Spurred on by Kubo's stories, the villagers choose pity and tell him he was a man of many positive traits, accepting him into the village. Kubo is able to speak to his parents' ghosts during the subsequent Bon ceremony, as they sentry the deceased villagers' lanterns transform into golden herons and fly to the spirit world.

Bandage [edit]

  • Fine art Parkinson as Kubo, an adventurous 12-yr-erstwhile boy who can motility origami
  • Charlize Theron as Kubo's Mother/Monkey, the latter being a reincarnation of the former
  • Matthew McConaughey equally Beetle/Hanzo, respectively Kubo's father and a cursed bug version of the latter
  • Ralph Fiennes equally the Moon King, Kubo'due south granddaddy
  • Rooney Mara as Female parent's younger twin Sisters tasked with taking Kubo's eye by the Moon King
  • George Takei as Hosato
  • Brenda Vaccaro every bit Kameyo, Kubo's elderly friend
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Hashi

Production [edit]

Announced by the end-motion animation studio Laika in December 2014, the project is the directorial debut of Laika's CEO Travis Knight.[four] Laika's production designer Shannon Tindle pitched the story to Knight as a "stop-motion samurai epic". Although the studio had never ventured into the genre earlier, Knight was enthusiastic about the project; owing partly his analogousness towards both the "epic fantasy" genre besides as Japanese culture in general.[5]

The art took inspiration from such Japanese media equally ink wash painting and origami among others. A particular influence came from the ukiyo-due east woodblock way, with Laika intending to make the unabridged movie "to look and feel as if it's a moving woodblock impress"[five] Assistance came from 3D printing firm Stratasys who allowed Laika to use their newest technologies in commutation for feedback on them.[v] Knight mentioned that the story for the film was partly inspired by works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.

For the Skeleton monster the team created a giant 16 ft (four.9 m), 400 lb (180 kg) puppet, which Laika claims is the record holder for largest end-motion boob.[6] The idea to make such a massive puppet was born out of a fear that individual smaller parts (meant to correspond the larger monster) would not piece of work well on screen interacting with the other puppets.[6] The resulting puppet was built in two parts which were then attached together past magnets. For movement Laika had to blueprint a robot to easily manipulate information technology. The team at one point purchased an industrial robot from eBay but found that it would not work with their setup.[6] A modest portion of the production was released on YouTube.[seven]

Music [edit]

Kubo and the Two Strings
Soundtrack album past

Dario Marianelli
Released Baronial 5, 2016
Genre Pic score
Length 53:11
Label Warner Bros. Records
Laika picture show soundtrack chronology
The Boxtrolls
(2014) 		Kubo and the 2 Strings
(2016) 		Missing Link
(2019)
Dario Marianelli chronology
Everest
(2015) 		Kubo and the Two Strings
(2016)

Dario Marianelli equanimous and conducted the score for the movie.[8]

Release [edit]

The pic screened at the Melbourne International Motion picture Festival on August 13, 2016,[9] and was theatrically released in the U.s.a. on Baronial 19, 2016.[10]

Box role [edit]

Kubo and the Two Strings grossed $48 million in North America and $29.five million in other territories for a worldwide total of $77.5 one thousand thousand, against a budget of $60 1000000.[3]

In the United States, the film was released on August nineteen, 2016, alongside Ben-Hur and War Dogs, and was projected to gross $12–15 million from three,260 theaters in its opening weekend with some going as loftier as $17–20 meg.[xi] It made $515,000 from its Thursday night previews and $4.1 million on its get-go day. It went on to gross $12.6 meg in its opening weekend, finishing 4th at the box office behind War Dogs, Sausage Party and Suicide Squad.[12]

Critical response [edit]

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approving rating of 97% based on reviews from 221 critics, with an average rating of 8.forty/10. The website'southward critical consensus reads, "Kubo and the Two Strings matches its incredible animation with an absorbing—and bravely melancholy—story that has something to offer audiences of all ages."[13] On Metacritic, the motion picture has a weighted boilerplate score of 84 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[fourteen] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the motion picture an boilerplate grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 85% overall positive score and a 63% "definite recommend".[12]

Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com awarded the motion-picture show 3.5 stars out of four, saying that "1 of the nigh impressive elements of Kubo and the Two Strings—likewise its dazzling stop-motion animation, its powerful performances and its transporting score—is the amount of credit it gives its audience, specially its younger viewers."[15] IGN's Samantha Ladwig gave the film 7.5/ten, stating that the film is "Nighttime, twisted, and occasionally scary, simply also with sense of humor, honey, and inspiration."[sixteen] Jesse Hassenger, of The A.V. Guild, praised the movie, proverb that "no American animation studio is improve-suited to dreamlike plotting than Laika, and the animation of Kubo is truly dazzling, mixing composure and handmade charm with inspired flow."[17]

Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post gave the picture 4/4 stars, stating that the motion-picture show is "both extraordinarily original and extraordinarily complex, even for a grown-up movie masquerading equally a kiddie cartoon (which it kind of is)."[18] In The New York Times, Glenn Kenny said that "the movie's blend of stop-motility animation for the main activeness with computer-generated backgrounds is seamless, creating what is the most visually intoxicating of all Laika'southward movies."[19] Peter Debruge of Diverseness wrote that ""Kubo" offers another ominous mission for a lucky young misfit, this ane a dark, yet thrilling adventure quest that stands as the crowning accomplishment in Laika'due south already impressive oeuvre."[20] Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian was more disquisitional of the film, giving it a 2 out of five stars and proverb that "Older kids, except for a few teacher's pets, will soon realise that this is hardly a fun activity-run a risk cartoon at all, but a plate of vegetables."[21]

Jonathan Pile of Empire, wrote of the pic: "Yet another success for stop-motion giants Laika … boasts large laughs and constructive scares in a typically gorgeous blithe tale."[22]

Casting criticism [edit]

While the film received critical acclamation for its craft and story, it was criticized for its perceived whitewashing as a flick set in aboriginal Nihon but featuring a centrally white voice cast. George Takei and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa were the only actors of Asian descent and both played small-scale characters.[23] [24]

Accolades [edit]

At the 89th Academy Awards, Kubo and the Two Strings was nominated for ii awards, Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects, just lost to two Disney films respectively: Zootopia and The Jungle Book.[25] [26]

Home media [edit]

Kubo and the 2 Strings was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital media on November 22, 2016,[27] a new edition from Shout! Factory under license from Universal was released in September 2021.

Format Release Date Studio
DVD, Blu-ray & Blu-ray 3D November 2016 Universal
DVD & Blu-ray September xiv, 2021 Shout! Factory
4K Ultra Hard disk Blu-ray May 2022[ citation needed ] Universal

Other media [edit]

A game called Kubo: A Samurai Quest was released for iOS and Android on August xx, 2016.[28]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Kubo and the Two Strings at IMDb
  • Kubo and the Two Strings at Box Office Mojo
  • Kubo and the Two Strings at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Kubo and the 2 Strings at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata

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