Box Trolls

I was watching a movie called "the box trolls" and was struck by the villian's being allergic to the thing he wanted the very most. It was just perfect for a (dark) family film where actually killing the villian to get justice is not appropriate.

Have you noticed in less grown-up films where themes of pathos and revenge and guilt and what-is-justice are avoided, the bad guy is more likely to fall prey to a cliff, alligator, ocean, or swirling cloud, rather than a knife to the heart from the protagonist?

The good guys tell the bad guy it might not be so good for him to eat the cheese and his identity doesn't come from it, blah blah etc, (the writers rid them of all culpability) and he does, and he explodes, and everybody is happy because everyone wanted him to die secretly but nobody wanted blood on their hands.

The underdogs in the movie are the box trolls themselves, a species of little blue hairless lumps with arms and legs that wear boxes for clothes and dig in the trash for materials to fuel their underground tinkering workshop.

They don't speak English but grunt cutely and express human emotions - and are depicted as purely good.

I feel that they may have been designed to compete with minions. They're cute, little, a different color, and there are a lot of them. They act as a group, and they have an underground lair. On the other hand, this movie is based on a book and maybe the designers just couldn't help it.

In any case, I like the box trolls better than minions because they have integrity and intelligence. Enough said.