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February 9, 2026
Stitch Head review
Asa Butterfield leads a cast of freaks looking for acceptance and love in a harsh and uncaring world in this rather melancholy version of Guy Bass’s kid-lit series

TL;DR
- Director Steve Hudson shifts from social dramas to animation with "Stitch Head."
- The film adapts Guy Bass's children's books.
- Stitch Head is a boy with heterochromatic eyes and a baseball-like head.
- The movie features a mad professor and Stitch Head's friend, Creature, a cyclops.
- The story follows Stitch Head and his companions as they join a traveling freak show.
- The film is noted for its visual similarities to other animated works, particularly Pixar.
- The script is considered less developed than the visual elements.
- The film is compared to "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" and works by bolexbrothers and Aardman.
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