It's COraline!!!

There are a lot of Niel Gaiman's book turned to movie that wasn't shown in our theaters. For example, Mirror Mask. But we are not talking about MM... I will be talking about Coraline. "Not Caroline. It's COraline!"

I remember back then when I was starting up here in manila. Living alone, no cable no radio... so I have grown to a habit in buying books to read. One day I saw NG's Coraline book and back then it was just for only p150, Cheap for a Neil Gaiman book. So I bought it. I read it and it was fine for a children's book. Not so confusing as some of his children's book. But I won't be talking about Coraline as the book coz that will be over BookWench and this is MovieWench Blog.

So the movie started with a nice childreyny (if there is such word) song. All through out the movie it seems like they have followed the book, but I don't remember Wybie... Coraline's noisy annoying neighbor. But anyway, movie goes like this. Coraline and her parents just transferred to the pink castle and she discovers this little door behind the wallpaper and met her other mother and other father. It looks like this place through the little door is a parallel universe which has everybody in Coraline's life has an other self. And with this other parents she has she gets to do everything she wants and everything her real parents are not able to do the other parents can. Then there is the catch, like them which has button eyes, Coraline needs to have buttons sewn into her eyes in able to stay in that world and that would be forever. So she ran away from the other mother who eventually is a kind of spirit who eats little children's life force. Only to find out that her real parents was abducted by the other mother. Well to cut things short, Coraline ended saving her real parents and forever shutting the other mother out and dropping the key to the small door to the well.

Story is like the alice in wonderland if Gaiman was the one who wrote alice. Its quite easy to know the moral story, "Children, do not be fooled from people who gives you everything you want. Coz REMEMBER! Everything has a price."

In terms of Cinamatography... good, its animation anyway so they have done it well enough... Although it could have been nice for Tim Burton to have directed it instead in producing it. The animation style is close to Burton's Animaion style. (think Nightmare before christmas and Corpse Bride). Soundtrack is excellent perfectly fits the storyline and the atmosphere of the animation. This is a good children's movie perfect for the family to watch it together in the big screen.