Coraline

The amazing amount of work that came to make this movie must have been so incredible to watch. If I ever help make a movie I know I would want to have it be just like Coraline.


One movie that I saw this year that I adored was Coraline, this movie was so creepy that I enjoyed every moment of it. Vivid stop-motion animation combined with Neil Gaiman's imaginative story, Coraline is a film that's both visually stunning and wondrously entertaining. This was a pleasure to watch but be cautious of the age you allow your children to watch it at. Possible nightmares can occur with a slight chance of upset children, it is still a wonderful movie.

I have a detailed summary of the movie:
eerily eye-popping stop-motion animation tale of fractured dreams and families made whole. As the films opens, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) and her parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman) have moved into the Pink Palace, a once-vibrant boarding house that’s turned drab and dilapidated. As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalog, the bored and belligerent Coraline is admonished to explore her new world’s possibilities. Along the way she meets her fellow tenants, including two aging English showgirls and a mouse-training Russian acrobat, as well as an outcast neighborhood boy named Wybie. But it is a mysterious hidden door that most piques Coraline’s interest--a gateway to a parallel world where her "other" parents and neighbors live only to see Coraline well fed and endlessly entertained. All is not cakes and carnivals for Coraline, though, and the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions. When these intentions are revealed, Cora and a friendly magical cat use their wits and willpower to defeat Coraline’s wicked "other mother" and restore balance in the real world.

I enjoyed the creepy feel this movie gave and when you think about it strictly you realize this movie is seriously corrupt. Leaving your own world to join a perfect one is always the wrong way to go about it. You must have forgotten the saying the grass is always greener on the other side. Well when indulge yourself in false fantasy getting back to reality can be even harder. I did enjoy how Coraline became really logical about what was going on, the girl ends up having a pretty good mind in that bizarre little head of her's.

(I will mention this though when she was eating and drinking at the dinner table in the other world....you got to wonder how disgusting it was when reality hit that fake food, I mean the mice turn into some pretty creepy rodents so you have to figure...Ewwww)




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