
Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.... (Full plot summary below)
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Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.
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| Total FilmJordan FarleyVisually astonishing and touchingly told, Kubo is utterly wonderful. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniIf you want to expose your children to a work of art with real soul, you could do a lot worse than Kubo and the Two Strings. |
| HitfixDrew McWeenyKubo works because it is so direct, so honest about the emotional story it’s telling. Knight may have epic ambitions, but he keeps the stakes very personal. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe action is gorgeously fluid, the idiosyncratic 3-D visual conceits (including floating eyeballs undersea) are startling, and the story and its metaphors resolve in unexpected and moving ways. |
| Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan"Kubo" is both extraordinarily original and extraordinarily complex. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriFrom its opening image — of a distraught woman battling massive ocean waves on a moonlit night — to its surprisingly ambiguous final shot — of what, I won't say — Kubo and the Two Strings sears itself into your brain. |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichStaggeringly beautiful and immensely true, the best animated film of 2016 — one of the year’s best films of any kind, really. |
| The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenRepresenting a dazzling artistic leap forward for LAIKA, the stop-motion animation studio’s fourth feature — and first full-blown fantasy — is an eye-popping delight that deftly blends colorful folklore with gorgeous, origami-informed visuals to immersive effect. |
| Aggressive ComixSteph CozzaIt's very well written and well told, but what I love most about this movie is the animation. |
| MetroActiveRichard von BusackLaika Studios' independence is rare in feature-length animation today -- rather than topping a franchise, they seek emphasis on character, background, and the sharp wounding edge of a story. |