Synopsis
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
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Cast
- Lake BellLauren Grey (voice)
- Michael CeraMatthew (voice)
- Alex KarpovskyDavid (voice)
- Zoe KazanMagdalene (voice)
- Louisa KrauseAmber (voice)
- Angeliki PapouliaPhoebe (voice)
- Thomas Jay RyanNicholas (voice)
- Peter StormareGustav (voice)
- Grace ZabriskieJoan (voice)
- Emily DavisPliny / Waitress (voice)
Recommendations
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The Playlist
To watch Cryptozoo is to open a Disneyland-size kingdom of ideas that never cease to astound. - 91
The Film Stage
When something like Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo comes along, it’s easy to recognize as one of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages. - 90
Film Threat
When you turn on Cryptozoo, you’re in for something that’s unlike anything else you’ve seen before. It is the most interesting and singular animated movie I’ve seen in years. - 83
IndieWire
Brimming with constant new ideas and visual innovation, Shaw’s work captures the flurry of thought and motion at the center of dangerous times, and even dares to make them fun. - 80
Screen Daily
Despite all the influences that have been brought to bear on Cryptozoo, it still very much feels like its own creature. - 80
TheWrap
This time out, the writer-director (in collaboration with animation director Jane Samborski) is even more assured as both a storyteller and as a crafter of images, be they outrageous or gorgeous, haunting or hilarious. - 80
Variety
In this zoo, the story may be tame, but the images, and the imagination that releases them, run wild. - 73
Paste Magazine
Interested in interrogating the exploitation of fantasy and imagination for human consumption, Shaw’s psychedelic, patently adult animated feature brings daydreams into the pointedly violent and bleak reality that its genre contemporaries are privy to ignore.
