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Coraline 3D- extraordinary

Posted by tunenut on February 7, 2009 at 16:45:28:
This is a movie experience that you cannot recreate at home.

The animation is stop motion using models. I can't imagine how tedious it must have been to do this frame by frame. But it is a triumph.

The story is of a girl who has moved with her parents from her familiar home in Michigan to an old house in the rainy woods of Oregon. She is bored, friendless, and unhappy. There is a small door in one of the rooms of the old house. In her dreams, this door leads through a tunnel into an alternate universe. There are alternate versions of the house, her parents, her neighbors and the surrounding gardens- but everything is much nicer in the alternate world. Of course, all is not as it seems.

This has the feel of a classic fairy tale. And although the audience had plenty of kids, there is nothing particularly childish or Disneyfied about the dark worlds portrayed here.

The visuals are spectacular. Some of the sequences, for example, the alternate world garden scene, in sheer visual imagination, rival anything I've ever seen in any movie. The 3D is a big part of this.

But 3D on its own is not enough. Last year I saw Meet the Robinsons in 3D. The 3D was great, the movie was quite forgettable.

Obviously, the bottom line here is see this now, because in a few weeks, the next 3D movie will come out and you will have lost your chance.