Coraline Review
Henry Selick. This strange movie features characters of all sorts. Coraline (Dakota Fanning) is a smart, courageous, and easily irritated girl. She moves away from all of her friends to Oregon, where her parents further their writing careers. Constantly working, they have no time to entertain Coraline. Until she meets Wybie (Robert Bailey) a goofy, attentive boy who loves all the adventures that Coraline brings along.
Coraline, being the adventurous girl that she is, was always exploring through all of her new surroundings. Playing a game her dad made up for her, she found a small door blocked by bricks from the inside. Giving up her chances of getting inside, she goes to bed. Waking up, she hears a little mouse chirp which led her to the now unblocked door. This leads to an unknown world of all her perfect dreams on her own life. Little does she know this fantasy land is not at all what it portrays itself to be. During her trips back and forth, Coraline see's her new life in a very unrealistic way. Button eyes, and magical gardens, even a talking cat. But soon to realize this wasn't what she wanted at all. Coralines 2nd mom (Teri Hatcher) eventually turns into a horrid woman, trapping her real parents, stopping her from going back to the real world. Being clever, she plays a little game with mother #2 to find her parents and the lost childrens eyes. With hard work and determination, Coraline won the game going back to her normal life.
The effects and time that was put into this film are incredible. There is so much detail like the scenes, characters, voice overs take such percise increments of each slide. Every character has a whole case of outfits, body structures, and face expressions to make the full effect on the scene. Since they were made out of clay, it made them a lot easier to work with.
A lot of time is put into films like this. It is not like a movie with real characters. Every scene is taken by photos that are snapped by every milisecond. 7 seconds of the movie takes about 3 weeks to shoot, due to the charcters face expressions and movement. This is called the stop and go method because every step they take has to be shot. After all scenes are done, it will have take about 4 to 5 years to show one movie. Its the such detail that makes the film so beautiful.
I feel Coraline is such and amazing film. It is full of such detail that it blew me away. It's intended audience is children which in my opinion, is the least of appropriate. The film is quite scary and a bit revealing in some scenes. In one specific scene, Miriam and April, Coraline's neighbors, were half naked. That kind of image is not okay for a movie intended towards young children. In an adults point of view, this movie is so incredible and we appreciate the small details. Overall this movie was beyond 
