Watched Kubo and the Two Strings yesterday. Excellent movie and I highly recommend it. The animation is so well done that there are times when you think that it's CGI and forget that it's actually stop-motion animated puppets! The numerous references to Japanese culture and folklore is amazing, and the shamisen music both in the actual story and soundtrack is also phenomenal, especially the end theme which has a new version of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" but played with a shamisen. (Click here to listen)

But just cos I'm a nitpicky kinda guy, there are a few elements of the film which are a tad too Yankocentric for my liking - but most audiences (and certainly not kids who are the target audience) are gonna care about this stuff. Overall it's a really great film.