Coraline

3D stop motion animation brought back to the big screen by the guy who made it famous. No, not you Tim Burton, but the actual director Henry Selick who was given the Nightmare Before Christmas to direct and actually did all the hard work on it yet gets no recognition for it. Reminds meof how we could see Quentin Tarantino presents: Weekend at Bernies and he'd get all the notoriety for the movie by doing very little on the movie.

Whatever.

This was slickly animated and visually stunning. Seriously. The characters are all creepy little shits as the story is about a family moving into an old creepy house and the weird happenings taking place behind a secret door in the wall.

If I was a young kid watching this, I'd have probably fudged my undies as it is a pretty creepy story and there are creepy characters with buttons sewn on as eyes and stuff like that. I'm not though but was still genuinely creeped out about some of that crap. The villain is a nasty bitch, but man was she good.

The movie kind of moves slowly at points so of seemed to drag which usually isn't good, but maybe it fit with the slow moving, loner situation Coraline is in. Not sure. If they trimmed ten minutes or so somewhere in the middle it'd be a welcome cut, but overall I can't complain. The animation is slick and interesting and the story is creepy and original. I recommend it if you like cartoons, especially ones that aren't solely for little kids.