25th
Coraline
I just recently watched the movie Coraline in 3D. It contains the familiar voices of Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher. The film was directed by Henry Selick, the same director of Nightmare Before Christmas and it certainly has the same feeling. Coraline is the story of a girl who moves to a new home called the “Pink Palace” and is bored with her new surroundings, especially because she feels a little neglected by her parents. So when she finds a door that takes her to another near-perfect version of her world, she can’t help but prefer it over her real life. There she meets her “other mother” and “other father” who behave exactly the way she had wanted her real parents to behave. Her “other mother” cooks and makes her nice clothes and her “other father” has a less boring job, making music instead of writing gardening articles. And there is one other difference in Coraline’s “other parents” and that is that they have buttons for eyes. It is later discovered that the “other mother” has created this “other world” to lure Coraline in to sew her eyes with buttons and keep her there forever. When I first saw the trailer for the movie I had originally thought it was a kid-friendly film. So it was a lot darker and creepier than I expected. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was blown away by the movie’s aesthetics; it was visually stunning in my opinion. I believe the movie took about 4 years to make because it was done in stop-motion. I can’t imagine how much work went into creating just one frame, let alone the whole movie. A lot of work was put into the film—everything seen on screen was made by hand—so I believe it deserves a lot of success. While the movie may not be showing in 3D anymore, it can still be seen in regular 2D so I highly recommend you to go watch it.
