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Wow! I was totally blown away by Coraline. It is a very beautiful film that is packed with creativity, magic and also tension. Coraline is a beautifully filmed masterpiece that truly is one-of-a-kind. It is very similar to Monster House, Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride in the way it was filmed but this is the best one of those four films. I loved this film from start to finish especially because I saw it in 3D at the cinema.
The film follows the story of a little girl called Coraline who moves into the Pink Palace Apartments with her loving but work-consuming parents. Inside the apartment, she finds a door that is filled with bricks but one night it opens up and out comes a new world which changes things around. The way the door opened and the way she went through it reminded me a lot of Alice In Wonderland. Coraline is like DJ in Monster House: brave, courageous, friendly and also very curious. In all of those four films I have mentioned that are similar have very similar personalities but are at different ages and different sexes. The voices provided are just simply amazing! Dakota Fanning has starred in a masterpiece as Coraline and is my favourite film with her in it at the moment. Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, Keith David, Robert Bailey Jr. and John Hodgman were really good in the film too.
I think this was absolutely typical of Henry Selick to direct Coraline because it is a very dark story for children and was really odd. Selick's previous works James And The Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas were very oddly yet beautifully filmed in a live action and animated sort of way. They were both connected with Tim Burton but Coraline wasn't and that is a shame but then again it might not have been as good if it was a Tim Burton film. Selick has created a masterpiece that will hopefully be the Best Animated Picture 2009 winner. It is a film that is perfectly aimed at the right people. It is meant to show the adult humour and a dark story for both children and adults. It is meant to show the pure magic and the beauty inside of a young child's imagination even if it's scary or creepy. Some of the animation involved looked real.
Overall, Coraline is an absolutely unbelievable experience to watch! I still prefer Nightmare Before Christmas over this. This may be too old for children who are under 6 years old but I think it is one that I think everybody will love when they watch it. It is a masterpiece! I would recommend that you watch Coraline in 3D at the cinema otherwise you are missing out on a fantastic experience that will blow you away.
10/10
