Animal Crackers (2016)

Directed by

Scott Christian Sava, Tony Bancroft

Genre

fantasy film, children's film

Country

United States, Spain

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 208 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family finds a box of magical animal crackers that can turn anyone into an animal. They use the crackers to save a circus.

whimsicallightheartedfast-pacedfunfamily-friendlycolorfulcomedicupbeat

What happens

Animal Crackers is a 2017 animated fantasy comedy film directed by Scott Christian Sava and Tony Bancroft, written by Sava and Dean Lorey and based on the animal-shaped cookie (and also loosely on the graphic novel by Sava). The film features the voices of John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Warburton, Raven-Symoné, Harvey Fierstein, Wallace Shawn, Gilbert Gottfried, Tara Strong, James Arnold Taylor, Kevin Grevioux, and Lydia Rose Taylor in her film debut. It tells the story of a family who comes across a box of magical animal crackers that turns anyone that consumes a cracker into the animal that the cracker represents and this animal handily saves the circus that the family was associated with. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 12, 2017. It was released in China on July 21, 2018. It was released on Netflix on July 24, 2020, to mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. On November 8, 2024, it was announced a sequel originally titled Animal Crackers 2 is currently in production and was set for 2026. On November 14, 2025, it was announced that the film was retitled as Animal Crackers 2: The Next Batch and was delayed to 2027. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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