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Sundance Animated Fantasy 'Cryptozoo' Sells to Magnolia (EXCLUSIVE) Matt Donnelly, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety. The animated fantasy was written and directed by Dash Shaw (“My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea”) and boasts a voice cast featuring Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia and Zoe Kazan. More from Variety Debuting in the Next section at the 2021 virtual festival, “Cryptozoo” follows a couple romping in the woods, seeking intimacy and a good high. They inadvertently stumble on a park of fantasy creatures — dragons, griffins, winged horses and unicorns abound. The two lovers discover a refuge for “endangered and misunderstood mythical creatures — hailing from the folklores and legends of a hundred different cultures — that the wider world either does not believe in, fears or wants to exploit,” wrote
'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.