“Families Come in All Shapes and Sizes” in THE BOXTROLLS Teaser

In a very timely manner, the first teaser was released for The Boxtrolls, the latest stop-motion feature from Laika (Paranorman, Coraline).  Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, the film focuses on Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright), a young boy who is raised by a family of trolls.

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Richard Ayoade, and Tracy Morgan also lend their voices.  Thought the teaser isn’t much, it’s sure to wet the appetites of those that are fans of this studio’s previous efforts.

The Boxtrolls is set for theaters September 26th, 2014, hit the jump for the teaser and synopsis.

The new 3D animated feature from Laika Studios tells the tale of the Boxtrolls, monsters who live underneath the charming streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. At least, that’s the legend the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable oddballs who are raising as one of their own an abandoned and orphaned human boy named Eggs. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous exterminator who is bent on eradicating them, Eggs must venture aboveground to save them, where he teams with an adventurous young girl to save not only the Boxtrolls but the soul of Cheesebridge.