“Boxtrolls” Trailer Features First Same-Sex Couple in Animated Movie

'Boxtrolls' Teaser Trailer is Gay-Friendly

Stop-motion animation studio Laika has taken a rather revolutionary approach in animated cinema by including a same-sex couple in
their next movie 'Boxtrolls'.  The trailer’s main point is that families come in all shapes and sizes. We see a kid being raised by two fathers, two mothers and eventually by a group of monsters in crates (probably the titular Boxtrolls).

This isn’t the first time that Laika Studios has taken such a liberal approach. In 2012’s ParaNorman, Mitch, a buff jock is revealed to be gay when a girl asks him out to a movie. Mitch replies by saying "That sounds great, Cathy. You’re gonna love my boyfriend. He's, like, a total chick-flick nut!"

This time around, Boxtrolls will see a kid being fostered by a collection of sewer monsters. He must then save his disparate family from the hands of an exterminator. While Hollywood and the media herald the trailer as “groundbreaking”, it must be stated that the entire movie may not feature a same-sex couple.  The movie is based on the novel “Here Be Monsters!” by Alan Snow and it is set in the early 19^th century, when I doubt that a gay or lesbian couple was a fact to celebrate. Hence, it may seem that this so-called “groundbreaking” nature is limited to the teaser trailer.

Of course, when books are transformed into movies, there are numerous alterations to the characters and plot, and it is yet to be seen if Laika will create drastic distortions to the book’s story. To me though, a revolutionary change would be when an animated movie for kids is centered entirely on a same-sex couple and not just in a trailer. That may take a while, though.