Coraline

A stop-motion film from the creators of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline is the story of a little girl as her family moves into a new apartment. Her parents are inconsiderate and ignore her for their work, her mom never cooks, and doesn't really care for Coraline the way a mother should, and her father is so into his work that he doesn't even notice that she's there. She is completely bored in her new home and has nothing else to do but explore the new house. In one of the rooms there is a small door in the fashion of Alice In Wonderland, but the only thing behind it is bricks. Suddenly a doll that looks exactly like her shows up, as a child would she thinks nothing of it and carries it around. Then one night cute little mice appear in her room and lead her to the little door, except this time there is a pathway that leads to...her house. What? But it's actually an alternate reality that mirrors her life, but better. She finds her "Other Mother" who cooks the best meals and shows her more love than one can handle and her "Other Father" shows her more attention and is so much fun. Her Other parents are perfect in every way except they have dead black buttons for eyes, this doesn't seem to bother Coraline. She ends up loving her "other" world so much that she wants to stay forever, and her Other parents will allow her to...if she lets her "Other Mother" sew buttons into her eyes. Coraline refuses much to the disappointment of her "Other Mother" and Coraline soon finds out her Other parents and "other" world isn't what it at first seemed to be. I wish I had seen this film earlier so I could write my review in time for you guys to see it in 3D, unfortunately this is the last weekend it will be available in 3D. Having said that Coraline is more than a movie, it is a work of art. It is quite possibly one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen, and certainly the best 3D film ever made. Every single shot in the film is exquisitely crafted for the 3D illusion. It is simply gorgeous and magnificently eye-popping. Not only is it beautiful, but the story is fascinating and calculated, it has a very deliberate pace the might irritate some of the children in the audience, but my thing is nowadays every film that is animated isn't necessarily for children. If you take your kids to a movie like this without doing your research because it looks "kid-friendly" then you deserve to be offended by it's material that may be too dark for young children. In fact there were a few trailers before the film that were animated, but obviously not for a young audience that parents who don't do their research will cry foul about. Sorry I went off on a tangent, back to Coraline. Even though you  might have missed out on it's 3D screenings do not miss out on the work of art that is Coraline, and a movie that looks this good in 3D will not doubt be re-released at some point in the tradition The Nightmare Before Christmas. That movie is re-released every year and I'm certain that Coraline will receive the same classic status. Stop-motion in 3D, wow.

5 out of 5

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one luv, Toinne