Every now and then, the little kid in me still enjoys watching cartoons and eating cupcakes. So I am planning to see this movie when it comes out soon. And I will give my movie review later.

Update:  Finally got to see Coraline at the movies.  It actually sold out on Friday night and we had to come back the next night.  Lots of little school children and their families came out to see the movie.

I truly enjoyed watching this uniquely made movie.  They give out free 3-D glasses at the door.  The 3-D effect was nauseating at first and it takes  a awhile for my eyes to adjust to it.  I was enjoying the movie, but it gets darker toward the middle and I had to close my eyes.  I think it because my eyes were hurting and I need to rest them a bit.  But this movie was good, the graphics and story was good.  You can also visit their website and give yourself Coraline “button eyes” too.

This will be the first movie project for Laika Animation Studio in Portland, Oregon. The movie was filmed using stop-motion animation. This is where the hands and every other part of the characters (puppets) in the movie are manipulated frame by frame. This is done to achieve movement and expression and to tell a very realistic looking story. I am a big fan of claymation and am looking forward to seeing how this movie will compare. Other features in this movie people will notice is that some theatres (including one near our city) will offer 3-D screenings.

Coraline is a curious and adventurous young girl that is about to discover a parallel world in her new home. The family moves into an apartment in an eccentric old house. In her bedroom is a secret little door where she enters a parallel world. Things that appear to be good at first actually come with a strings attached. And they are not so good strings.

The movie reviews so far have been pretty good. Entertainment Weekly gave it an A. Check out the book if you like or see the movie and follow Coraline’s imagination.

Excerpt of Caroline:

By Neil Gaiman
Chapter One

Fairy Tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
– G.K. Chesterton.

Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.

It was a very old house—it had an attic under the roof and a cellar under the ground and an overgrown garden with huge old trees in it.

Coraline’s family didn’t own all of the house, it was too big for that. Instead they owned part of it.

There were other people who lived in the old house.

Miss Spink and Miss Forcible lived in the flat below Coraline’s, on the ground floor. They were both old and round, and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. Once upon a time Miss Spink and Miss Forcible had been actresses, as Miss Spink told Coraline the first time she met her.

“You see, Caroline,” Miss Spink said, getting Coraline’s name wrong, “Both myself and Miss Forcible were famous actresses, in our time. We trod the boards, luvvy. Oh, don’t let Hamish eat the fruit cake, or he’ll be up all night with his tummy.”

“It’s Coraline. Not Caroline. Coraline,” said Coraline.

In the flat above Coraline’s, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big moustache. He told Coraline that he was training a mouse circus. He wouldn’t let anyone see it.

“One day, little Caroline, when they are all ready, everyone in the whole world will see the wonders of my mouse circus. You ask me why you cannot see it now. Is that what you asked me?”

“No,” said Coraline quietly, “I asked you not to call me Caroline. It’s Coraline.”