The Coraline movie is real magic

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The Coraline movie is here! Neil Gaiman’s marvellous children’s novel Coraline has become a suitably magical film overseen by none other than Henry Selick, the man that helmed the 1993 cult classic stop-motion feature ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’. If anyone was able to bring Gaiman’s weird tale of people with Button-eyes in an alternative vision of our own world, it is Selick. The visual aspect of the Coraline movie is a gorgeous example of stop-motion animation, a moviemaking method that can really be enchanting when executed right.

Where the novel was of the same strange and unnerving sort that we have all come to expect and crave from Neil Gaiman, the visual element of the Coraline movie took several people off guard with its array of radiant colour and the method of animation. The Coraline movie is a marvellous piece to look at, and will thrill viewers young and old with its strange story and thoroughly entertaining characters.

The acting talent attached to the stop motion action of the Coraline movie is very special too. Dakota Fanning handles the title role of Coraline herself, and the cast has a number of British television icons in the cast, including Ian McShane, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Teri Hatcher performs the voice of both incarnations of Coraline’s mother. The Coraline movie’s sarcastic feline friend is performed by John Hodgman.

It is quite fitting that such a strange story is brought to the screen in such a manner as to capture the essence of a dream. Stop motion has that wonderful hyper-real feel to it that CG is yet to possess. There is something exceptionally unnerving about stop motion, especially here in the Coraline movie. It may be the knowledge that the viewer is watching inanimate objects moving around on the big screen, or it might just be that the finished sight of a stop-mo movie is so different to various other animated movies of the contemporary industry.

While the Coraline movie is nowhere near as stuffed with iconic images as The Nightmare Before Christmas, it is certainly not without it’s visual delights. Just look out for the musical parts, the strange metamorphoses of the characters, and of course, the chilling buttons that characters have sewn into their eyes in the alternate world. Viewers that haven’t read the book are in for a real treat as they are introduced to the weird universe that Gaiman created, a world that is similar to ours, just somewhat skewed.

For people who have read the book (and it has been enjoyed by just as many adults as kids), the Coraline Movie is about as a faithful representation of the original material as it’s going to get. This is one kid’s film that is going to become a much-loved classic for all ages. The Coraline movie is absolute magic.

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