Cryptozoo

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Cryptozoo

2021,

1h 35m,

Fantasy/

Animation

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Visionary comic book writer/artist/filmmaker Dash Shaw's vibrant, fantastical animated feature 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.

Critics Consensus

Although its visual overstimulation threatens to derail its themes, Cryptozoo is an ambitious and unique critique of capitalistic values.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Oct 19, 2021

4/5

Utterly bizarre in the best possible way, this lovingly handmade animated feature by writer-director Dash Shaw (originally a comic book/graphic novelist) isn't like anything you've seen before.

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Amy Nicholson

FilmWeek (LAist)

Aug 21, 2021

Its ugliness I find to be deliberate, and there are beautiful moments... [Cryptozoo] is a tiny bit of a mess, but I admired a lot of it.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Aug 20, 2021

2/4

An unusually timid animated fantasy that looks like outsider art, but often moves and sounds like bad pulp fiction.

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Manuel São Bento

MSB Reviews (Ghost.io)

Jul 24, 2023

C+

Cryptozoo is undoubtedly one of the most shockingly violent 2D animated movies I’ve ever seen… and I write this both as a compliment and a disclaimer to sensitive viewers.

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Mitchell Beaupre

Awards Radar

Sep 22, 2022

3/4

It’s this moral conundrum where Cryptozoo finds its most resonance, as it not only challenges the oppressiveness of those who fear and attack Others, but also the self-serving oppression enacted by supposed allies who think they know what’s right.

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

Aug 11, 2022

The plotlines are so fleeting and light that everything gets diluted, and it smells like XXI Century New Age. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

Visionary comic book writer/artist/filmmaker Dash Shaw's vibrant, fantastical animated feature 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.

Director: Dash Shaw
Producer: Kyle Martin, Jane Samborski, Bill Way, Tyler Davidson
Screenwriter: Dash Shaw
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Washington Square Films, Fit Via Vi Film Productions
Genre: Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 20, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.3K
Runtime: 1h 35m

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