Dakota Fanning

Teri Hatcher

Jennifer Saunders

Dawn French

Keith David

John Hodgman

Robert Bailey Jr.

Ian McShane

Aankha Neal

George Selick

Hannah Kaiser

Harry Selick

Marina Budovsky

Emerson Tenney

Jerome Ranft

Christopher Murrie

Jeremy Ryder

Carolyn Crawford

Yona Prost

John Linnell

Henry Selick

Bruno Coulais

Mike Cachuela

Chris Butler

Rich Zim

Alex Heineman

Claire Jennings

Harry Linden

Bill Mechanic

Mary Sandell

Michael Zoumas

Pete Kozachik

Ronald Sanders

Phil Brotherton

Lee Bo Henry

Tom Proost

Dawn Swiderski

Amy Adamy

Philip Beglan

Rob Bekuhrs

Kim Blanchette

Kent Burton

Billy Cabey

Julianna Cox

Payton Curtis

Phil Dale

Sarah de Gaudemar

Brian Demoskoff

Jennifer Downs

Teresa Drilling

Robert Ducey

Anthony Elworthy

Tom Gasek

Kevin Glick

Michelle Gorski

Misha Klein

Travis Knight

Justin Kohn

Dan Krall

Malcolm Lamont

Rachel Larsen

Eric Leighton

Guionne Leroy

Ken Lidster

Jan-Erik Maas

Brian Menz

Martin Meunier

Jeffery Mulcaster

Shane Prigmore

Bartek Prusiewicz

Jeff Riley

David J. Rowe

Andrew Salter

Brad Schiff

Andy Schuhler

Anthony Scott

Gregory Smith

Gabe Sprenger

Trey Thomas

Chris Tichborne

Shannon Tindle

Chris Tootell

Suzanne Twining

Ian Whitlock

Tim Yates

John Allan Armstrong

Graham Annable

Chris Appelhans

Vera Brosgol

Tom Knott

Jeannine Berger

Eric Wachtman

Adam Fisher

Alvaro E. Cubillas

Lourri Hammack

Phil Knight

Leonard Lipton

Neil Gaiman

Cathy Kalmenson

Linda Lamontagne

Christopher Bradach

Patrick Bradach

Scarlet Chamberlin

Joseph Ferguson

Richard Guinan

Leif Jenssen

Brandon Lastomirsky

Rebecca Leiv

Rob Partenheimer

Kathy Radcliffe

Diana Sattley

Jeff Stringer

Jennie Terranova

Colette D. Dahanne

Anne Adams

Animation

Family

Fantasy

Coraline

Laika

Pandemonium

United States of America

Neil Gaiman is so contemporarily vital, both in literature and cinema, because he more than anyone else (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam) notes that children and adults alike are fascinated with what lies outside our observable and tangible realms of existence. He realized the reasons storytelling have been significantly important since the dawn of mankind, and devised, as the Brothers Grimm did, that fairy tales and children's stories had to be haunting and entertaining to be both memorable and timeless. This is a great film depicting the growing sense as a child approaches adolescence that their parents and their world aren't exactly as they seem, and that through their trials and tribulations (the 'rites of passage', if you will) they'll reach the 'happy medium' they need to in order to find true happiness in their lifetimes.

I definitely hope that all of Gaiman's books and graphic novels are made into movies (I most anticipate the 'Miracleman' graphic novels--both those by him and Alan Moore). Ones so well-written would truly be 'comic book movies' worth watching for me.

ZeBlah

Quite dark, but entertaining and very well done. One of the few american animated movies I liked.

Kamurai

Fantastic watch, will watch again, and do recommend.

I really wish more movies would follow this simple and great movie structure.  Instead of a typical 3-act structure (not that it isn't technically there), the story is much closer to that of a video game.

You have a standard introductory act, but the rest of the movie is split into video game-esque "levels" that develop and unlock as Coraline makes new discoveries and completes different sections of the "map" / house.

There is a lot of messaging here as well, mostly concerning relationships between children and parents and how to navigate those in regard to real life events, but everything is "do not tell" levels of subtle so it's not in your face at all.

The Beldam itself is a magnificent creation of a "thing that bumps in the night" style of monster.  While there is a lot left unexplained, there is plenty that is exampled about the Beldam and her world.

The movie also reminds me a lot of "The Wizard of Oz" in a few different ways so its good that there are family friendly movies of this quality that make vague callbacks to classic movies.

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