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Laika’s Wildwood Follows a Girl Into a Dangerous Fantasy World
Wildwood is a stop-motion fantasy film from Laika, the studio behind Coraline and ParaNorman.
Directed by Travis Knight, it is based on a novel by Colin Meloy, with illustrations by Carson Ellis.
The story follows Prue, a girl in Portland, Oregon, whose infant brother Mac is carried away by crows.
She enters the Impassable Wilderness to find him, with a local boy named Curtis joining her.
In the strange world, Prue meets animal people and learns about its history as she builds a revolution.
Curtis is captured by the Dowager Governess, who tries to draw him toward power and violence.
The film runs for more than two hours and uses intricate stop-motion animation, a painstaking technique in which objects are moved slightly between photographs.
The review describes Wildwood as Laika’s most ambitious film and praises its scale and craftsmanship.
TheWrap reviewed Laika’s stop-motion fantasy film “Wildwood,” directed by Travis Knight.
The film follows Prue, a girl whose infant brother Mac is kidnapped by crows.
Prue enters the Impassable Wilderness with Curtis and encounters fantastical towns and creatures.
The film is based on a novel by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis.
The review calls the film an ambitious, over-two-hour production made with stop-motion animation.
- Who
- Laika produced the film, and Travis Knight directed it.
- What
- TheWrap reviewed “Wildwood,” a stop-motion fantasy film.
- When
- The review was published on 2026-10-11.
- Where
- The story begins in Portland, Oregon, and continues in the Impassable Wilderness.
- Why
- The film tells the story of Prue following her kidnapped infant brother into a fantasy world.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
It’s got soul built into every miraculous object we see on the screen.
No Laika movie is more ambitious than “Wildwood.
Prue’s brother Mac is kidnapped by crows, and Prue follows them into the woods.
TheWrap published its review of “Wildwood.
- Studio
- Laika
- Director
- Travis Knight
- Source novel
- Colin Meloy
- Prue
- Voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee
- Curtis
- Voiced by Jacob Tremblay
- Review publication date
- 2026-10-11
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