Featuring the voice talents of Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, and Michael Cera, CRYPTOZOO follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a Baku, a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature, and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.... (Full plot summary below)
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Featuring the voice talents of Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, and Michael Cera, CRYPTOZOO follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a Baku, a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature, and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.
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| The PlaylistCarlos AguilarTo watch Cryptozoo is to open a Disneyland-size kingdom of ideas that never cease to astound. |
| The Film StageJuan BarquinWhen something like Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo comes along, it’s easy to recognize as one of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaWhen you turn on Cryptozoo, you’re in for something that’s unlike anything else you’ve seen before. It is the most interesting and singular animated movie I’ve seen in years. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangPage by page, frame by frame, it seeks to cultivate your wonder and awaken your outrage, to spin a work of unbridled fantasy into a depressingly relevant critique of human callousness and greed in any era. |
| Original-CinLiam LaceyAnimation director Jane Samborski’s richly eclectic miscellany of visual styles depict a bestiary of mythic creatures and outré scenes of sex and violence that are matched to director/writer Dash Shaw’s allegorical narrative. |
| The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaCryptozoo stands out as an aesthetically ambitious undertaking, seducing viewers with its hypnotizing hand-drawn animation and John Carroll Kirby’s pulsing electronic score. |
| TheWrapAlonso DuraldeThis time out, the writer-director (in collaboration with animation director Jane Samborski) is even more assured as both a storyteller and as a crafter of images, be they outrageous or gorgeous, haunting or hilarious. |
| Screen DailyAllan HunterDespite all the influences that have been brought to bear on Cryptozoo, it still very much feels like its own creature. |
| VarietyJessica KiangIn this zoo, the story may be tame, but the images, and the imagination that releases them, run wild. |
| IndieWireEric KohnBrimming with constant new ideas and visual innovation, Shaw’s work captures the flurry of thought and motion at the center of dangerous times, and even dares to make them fun. |
