'Cryptozoo' Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Hide Them The intricate animation style illuminates this adult-aimed adventure about imaginary creatures and their all-too-human friends and foes. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Dash Shaw With: Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Louisa Krause, Peter Stormare, Thomas Jay Ryan, Alex Karpovsky, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan, Grace Zabriskie. Running time: Running time: 90 MIN. Courtesy of Fit Via Vi FIlms It is the 1960s and a loved-up, blazed-up hippie couple, sketched in itchy black lines, have snuck into the monochrome nighttime woods to swap bodily fluids and woozy observations on life. Naked and stoned and mumbling about revolutions, they happen on a tall fence and climb it, entering, unbeknownst to them, the “Cryptozoo” of animators Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s combined imagination: a place in which griffins and winged horses keep company with will o’ the wisps, dragons and a startled unicorn.