Kubo and the Two Strings
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Nov 6, 2026
RemyHOST
didn't do
NateHOST
Kubo.
NateHOST
He was the Kubo guy? Yeah.
NateHOST
I liked Kubo.
NateHOST
Yeah, he
RemyHOST
did Kubo.
RemyHOST
He did Paranorman.
RemyHOST
He did this one.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
And probably the height of stop-motion animation is Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which of course has Tim Burton heavily involved in.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
Director Travis Knight is not a big of a name as those filmmakers, but he's one of the founders of the company Leica, who has made the stop-motion films Coraline, Paranorman, The Box Trolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and the film I'm talking about today, Wildwood.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
Of those films, the one I first connected with was Kubo and the Two Strings.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
It's one of my all-time favorites.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
It's directed by Knight and is one of the best animated films ever.
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Cameron McKinneyHOST
I want my favorite filmmakers to also make animated movies.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
Travis Knight, in my opinion, has made really good live-action films.
Cameron McKinneyHOST
I really like Bumblebee, and I really liked Masters of the Universe, but those movies are not comparable to Kubo and the Two Strings and Wildwood.
Andrew LZHOST
It's small compared to what Wildwood does.
Andrew LZHOST
But Kubo, I thought, was their peak.
Andrew LZHOST
I thought they wouldn't be able to top it.
Andrew LZHOST
They've had another movie since, and that was Missing Link.
Andrew LZHOST
And Missing Link is good, and it has some really big moments.
Andrew LZHOST
I thought Kubo was
Nick ErvinHOST
better.
Andrew LZHOST
Kubo, I thought, was as big as they could go.
Steven SantanaHOST
Yeah, unfortunately, Coraline is actually the only Laika stop-motion film that I've seen of theirs.
Steven SantanaHOST
I want to say I've seen bits of Paranorman, but I have not seen Box Trolls or Missing Link, or the big one I know is Kubo and the Two Strings.
Steven SantanaHOST
Kubo and the Two Strings is so good.
Steven SantanaHOST
So I'll probably get around to it soon.
Steven SantanaHOST
Because those are probably a little more in terms of bringing your child.
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Ben VerschoorHOST
Yeah.
Ben VerschoorHOST
I'll be interested to see when Tim Brayton gets to this, him being an animation scholar, what he can say.
Ben VerschoorHOST
I do remember from his Kubo and the Two Strings review that for the story of that, he said that, I think he described it as basically the closest we'll get to a Legend of Zelda movie.
MattHOST
They made Coraline, Paranorman...
MattHOST
The Box Trolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link before this.
MattHOST
And really, I think Coraline was a success, but the rest of those movies were not big hits.
ShelbyHOST
Kubo was nominated for an Oscar, right?
MattHOST
Well, they were all nominated for Oscars.
ShelbyHOST
Financially, though, you mean?
MattHOST
Yes, financially.
ShelbyHOST
Right, okay.
Adam EvaltHOST
Yeah.
Adam EvaltHOST
Kubo and the Two Strings.
Adam EvaltHOST
I did watch Missing Link.
Adam EvaltHOST
I did see Kubo and the Two Strings.
Adam EvaltHOST
Am I out of touch
Adnan RiazHOST
here?
Shannon McClungHOST
And this does not break that tradition.
Shannon McClungHOST
I mean, I think Kubo and Two Strings is still their best film.
Shannon McClungHOST
um perfectly perfectly good performances from a voice cast that you recognize there are unearned um unearned endings um but by the end like i i went to you know go use the bathroom and people came in after me and everyone was talking about uh because it was a crowded theater like it was packed um But I feel like there was somebody from who had worked on the movie in the theater with us because there were some big laughs that I was kind of like, oh, OK, I recognize that laugh.
Shannon McClungHOST
That's the laugh when you're sitting next to the guy who wrote it.
Michael VogelHOST
And I was like, I want to feel great about what's happening here, but I kind of feel like I just watched a bunch of beautiful stuff happen, but just stuff.
Michael VogelHOST
And it wasn't the story like to Shannon's point, this is where like a, does fall off a little bit.
Michael VogelHOST
I do think Kubo's their strongest story.
Michael VogelHOST
And then I think after Kubo, I think Coraline and Paranorman are kind of neck and neck for storytelling.
Robert WinfreeHOST
Since then, they've released a handful of other movies.
Robert WinfreeHOST
I think the last two were Kubo and the Two Strings and The Missing Link.
Robert WinfreeHOST
Somebody wants to confirm that for me, by all means.
Alexis HejnaHOST
Yeah, Coraline was their first, then Paranorman, then The Box Trolls, then Kubo and the Two Strings and The Missing Link.
Robert WinfreeHOST
Yeah, Paranorman is the one that I occasionally forget they did because it looks a lot.
Robert WinfreeHOST
It looks a lot like CGI of the era.
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Robert WinfreeHOST
Yeah, I don't disagree with that.
Robert WinfreeHOST
Like you guys said, it's kind of nice to see on occasion a few of them, a few stop motion movies that branch away from it a bit.
JamesHOST
Man, I wish I'd
CameronHOST
seen Kubo, bro.
CameronHOST
Kubo was crazy.
JamesHOST
So here's the thing.
JamesHOST
In discovery of – in preparation for a studios video that I'm doing – I had come to the conclusion or the realization I never saw a Laika movie.
JamesHOST
I couldn't.
JamesHOST
I'm sorry.
JamesHOST
I will say Kubo's number two.
Dana CorriganGUEST
And we're going to be screening Paranorman on Friday, November 6th at seven o'clock.
Dana CorriganGUEST
And Kubo and the Two Strings on Saturday.
Dana CorriganGUEST
Same thing, seven o'clock.
Tony SerratoHOST
Very cool.
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