Kubo and the Two Strings - Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [4K UHD]

This is a great animated film telling an epic story in an unusual, but accessible way. It's all about stories and how we tell them and how they shape us. It's probably better for middle school aged kids up through adult though. I tried showing it to a friend's 8 and 6 year old daughters and they couldn't keep up with the story and lost interest. Still, for a bit older kids, it's a great imaginative and artistic film that I highly recommend!

This animated feature is an excellent movie and fully enjoyable and satisfying for both kids AND adults. This movie doesn't have any of the adult TV show/movie or new references that animation movie makers seem to have to put into an animated movie to get adults to watch with their kids and it doesn't need them! This movie may look like a completely CGI animated movie, but it is NOT! The majority of this movie is done "Old School" with different types of clay and mechanical puppets in a more modern style of Ray Harryhausen OR Nick Park/Aardman (Wallace & Grommit) stop motion animation! This movie amazes on sooo many levels! The modern and old style Asian soundtrack is another really imprressive part of this movie that really helps to propel this feature to another level of interest as another element and plot supporting device! The attention to the tiniest of details and a very well thought out plot is what helps keep your interest in this movie, as highly fictional and fantastical as this animated feature is. I never saw this movie in the theaters (I really wished I had), but watching this movie with my wife on our 50 inch screen TV gave us a real great sense of what this movie was like in the theaters. Our interest in this movie was piqued when we seen excerpts of this movie in commercials for "Save our Forrests" ! This movie is an impressive feat that you should either rent to watch or own! If you are a big fan of animated feature films, this is a must have to own feature worthy of being added to your animated movie collection! This IS an excellent and wonderful movie to watch and experience!

Wow, this is Laika's best film yet. What an amazing and talented studio. I'm nearly envious of their creation here! That should tell you just how technical and intricate this stop-motion/cgi picture is. Not only is it culturally arresting with the Japanese influence, it's also a natural and satisfyingly human trip through a boy's adventure in life and death with his family. It has all the tones and emotions one expects from a great picture, and I am stricken with heartache that this one is not more popular than it is. But this is a mass of people that will take a random and terrible comic book film to 500m easily. Whatever. While the script here isn't quite as funny or clever as say Moana, the soul that went into this is perfectly clear for anybody with an artist's heart and mind. Kubo rings true at every angle for me. And wow what a beautiful interpretation of Japanese fantasy. One thing everyone needs to do is watch all the documentary videos. It is entirely fascinating how they put these films together. It takes a lot of work. On a busy day they were doing almost 20 frames. ALMOST. The large and complex puppets have rarely been used in this type of animation, and the team wholly succeeded with infusing the story with a perfectly molded visual style that captures so many moving details you will want to watch it twice to take in everything. The 3D bluray has a nice lenticular cover and comes with a normal bluray as well. I enjoyed this film in both formats. What a great film. It didn't do quite as well at the box office, but to me marketing for this was extremely poor. I hope for their next film they find a better service to get the word out. Laika is an extremely talented studio ever since their first release with Coraline. You got to see this one too. It's an even better film.

I love this movie. It is such a fun story, so well told. The art is amazing, the roles are well done, and it keeps you entertained the entire time.

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Watched this with my 4th-grader son and my wife -- we enjoyed it, laughing at times and crying at times. Kubo has heart, no doubt about it. Very imaginative, too. It's great to have a team of animators who are decidedly different. If this story was made by Disney, everything that makes it cool would evaporate. What makes it special, quirky, heartfelt is Kubo's strengths. At times, it almost seems the filmmakers are trying to hard to be different. The story is very basic, but the writing at times confounds me. There are times the dialogue sputters and you think, "Couldn't someone have given Charlize Theron or Matthew McConaughey something better?" (Actually, McConaughey does his best to breathe life into his character -- Theron is too hard, too annoyed to be a loving monkey.) We watched it on amazon, so I bet the DVD would have the extras I'm actually dying to see: how did they make this? My favorite thing about the film is its look. Because it's not cell or computer animation, the clay figures they use have a special earthy or ethereal quality. The Moon King, in his pale-lit light, is truly cold and creepy. Kubo has a kind of loving care to him -- his face beams with love. It's hard not to love the little guy.

Una de las mejores películas del estudio de animación Laika, el exterior, un steelbook precioso en su diseño, el interior, una joya de la animación que todo el mundo debería de ver. El remasterizado a 4K Dolby Vision es sublime, colores sobrios y definición superlativa, lo malo es que esta remasterización es exclusiva de Shout! Factory, por lo que es exclusiva del mercado americano, es decir que no lleva castellano, viene una pista en español, pero es, evidentemente latino, yo las películas las veo en su inmensa mayoría en en V.O. por lo que en lo personal no me afecta, aunque he de decir que, el doblaje latino, es excelente, y además es 5.1, por lo que es muy disfrutable. En definitiva, nos encontramos antes un UHD de una enorme calidad en todos sus apartados, y cuya única pega, es que no viene doblada al castellano, si no os importa en demasía este aspecto, es una compra muy recomendable, hay que tener en cuenta que una versión UHD con castellano ni existe, ni se la espera.

A new stop motion movie from Laika Studios. Who also brought us 'Coraline.' 'Paranorman.' And 'The Boxtrolls.' This is a wholly original story, with an oriental setting. The main character is Kubo. A boy who starts the film washed up on a shore with his mother. They come to live on the edge of a village. Where he grows up entertaining the locals with his storytelling, music, and amazing origami skills. But his mother can only tell him so much about his past. And he would love to know who his father was. When the village is attacked, it's the start of a remarkable journey that will change his life forever... The stop motion in here is simply stunningly well done, and gorgeous to look at. It even manages scenes set at water that look convincing. The score is also superb, fitting the setting of the tale perfectly. It's a film of sections. The opening has a lot to set up and is a bit of a slow burner. But once the action gets going it's initially unclear as to certain things that are going on. But then Kubo is on a quest with two special beings, Monkey [Charlize Theron] and Beetle [Matthew Mcconaughey]. The three form an excellent grouping giving some very funny bickering and character moments. Matthew Mcconaughey in particular is superb at playing his character for intended laughs. The final quarter of the film does change direction slightly to go a little darker, but it does deliver memorable action and good answers. And has a brilliant emotional depth to it. Leading to an ending you won't forget in a hurry. Through the narrative Kubo has an excellent character journey, and you can really feel for him and relate to him all the way. Its a great journey to take. The film might be a bit dark at points for some of the very young, hence the PG certificate. But ultimately it's a charming fable and a great watch and well worth five stars. The disc has the following language and subtitle options: Languages: English, Arabic, Hindi, Icelandic. Subtitles: English, Arabic, Hindi, Icelandic. It also has English audio description. The disc begins with some trailers and ads, that can be skipped via the next button on the dvd remote. It contains the usual flyer with code to use to download a copy of the film to a digital device. Extras: Kubo's Journey. A making of documentary, which is split into six parts. Which can be watched individually or all in a row. If doing the latter it runs for twenty seven minutes in total. This is a good and in depth look at the production and an excellent watch. There's also Corner of the Earth, a three minute look at some of the settings in the film. Which is a bit too short to have much impact.

Lindísimo, fue regalo y le encantó, la película también está buena!

劇場で見てとても気に入り、ブルーレイで繰り返し観ています。英日版よりも、多言語で楽しめるし安いから、海外製作の映画のブルーレイは輸入ものを買うことが多いです。 西洋かぶれになってしまった日本人には、ここまで日本風のテイストを前面に打ち出した作品はかえって作れないと思うから、貴重な作品だと思いました。映像が美しい。 家族を亡くした身で見ると、エンディングのほうは個人的思いもあふれて号泣しちゃいました。私は、とてもいいストーリーだと思っています。 私は英語とスペイン語しか分かりませんが、ストーリーはシンプルだし、セリフが難解なわけではないから、全く分からないフランス語でもたまに観ています。聴いてるうに１つでも２つでも語彙が身につけばいいな。

Little Kubo sets out to solve the mystery of his samurai father. A magical adventure with stunning visuals make this wonderful film a pleasure to watch.