Coraline review

      Coraline, directed by Henry Selick, created a 100 minute stop motion movie where a young girl is introduced to a parallel universe

One of many Coraline models and
what is inside of them to make
the figures bendable

      Coraline, voiced by Dakota Fanning, is a girl who just moved into a new (but old) house. She feels neglected by her parents, voiced by Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman, who are always too busy with their job. Since her parents are too busy to keep her entertained, Coralines dad tells her to go around the house and count all the windows and doors. As told, she goes around the house counting. When she finished she noticed of what it looked liked to be a door. Coraline calls her mom and asks for the key to open it. She finds that behind the door there are bricks blocking the way.

      One night Coraline is woken up by mice running around her room. She follows them and led her to the room with the mysterious blocked door, but this time… it was open. The mice make their way through the door so Coraline follows. On the other end it was only her house, nothing different… so it seemed. She smells something really good coming from the kitchen. She finds her mom cooking. When she turns around Coraline is shocked because she notices this isn’t her mother. This “other mother” as she calls her self, has buttons for eyes.

      In this parallel universe Coraline gets anything and everything she could ever ask for, but when it comes down to it, be careful what you wish for. The more Coraline hangs around the “other” world, the more her other parents want her to stay with them. Coraline doesn’t want to and would rather stay with her parents who don’t pay attention to her, so she plays a game with her other mother and if Coraline wins, she gets to be free from this strange world, but if she loses, her other mother gets to sew buttons in her eyes and she stays there.

      I personally think this movie was very well put together and has a great story behind it. The one thing I see wrong with this film is it’s not quite appropriate for kids. For example, sewing buttons into a child’s eyes? And a few other details throughout the movie. If you have watched the film, what do you think?