When you first hear of the new animated film
“Coraline” you would think of it being a nice children’s movie right? Wrong!
The writer and director Henry Selick made the movie to seem like an innocent
movie that kids would enjoy, but in reality it is an animated horror film. The
main character, Coraline, is voiced over by Dakota Fanning. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Coraline
is an only child and her relationship with her parents is very distant and they
don’t interact much. She actually wishes that they would give her more
attention and love her more, but they are just too busy with their lives. One
day Coraline’s friends Wibey gives her a doll that he said he “found”, but
really it was his Grandmothers and opened the passage way into the Other World.
After discovering the door to the Other World she decided to hop over and see
what it was all about. Coraline was amazed at how much she loved the Other
World over her world. She had found parents that loved and adored her;
everything was better in the Other World, the food, people, clothes,
EVERYTHING! At one part of the movie Coraline’s Other Mother and Father almost
convince Coraline into staying with them forever, but there was one condition,
she must sew buttons on as eyes just like them. CRAZY! Soon after she denied
their offer to stay with them the tables turned and the Other Mother went
ballistic. She made it impossible for her to escape from the Other World. Would
Coraline get back to her normal life? Or would she stay there forever? Watch
and find out!
Many
people wonder what goes into making an animated film, believe me after seeing
behind the scene footage of the entire process you would be surprised of the
lengths these people go in order to make a movie. For example, for animated
movies you either create the pictures by pure technology or by stop motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qPL-cypf_o&list=PL9A525542BF27CC88&index=1 Many
times it takes 3 weeks in order to capture 24 seconds of a film. For stop
motion you have a series of frames with each one being slightly different than
the next, and when you display them at a steady rate of speed, the human eye
perceives this as being a fluid motion. The amount of time and effort that it
takes to put an animated movie together is insane! If it takes 3 weeks just to
capture a small portion of the movie, how long will it take in order to capture
an hour and a half long movie?!
All
in all I thought that the movie was interesting. Even though at some parts of
the movie I didn’t really understand the meaning or purpose of those specific
parts. I would not recommend this movie to anyone who has a young child around
because I showed this movie to my nieces and they were afraid to walk in the dark
to go to their room! So just be aware of the content that the movie holds and
make the call!http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/coraline
