Coraline

This was a cute little film. The 3D was very subtle. There aren't too many times where things really "pop out" of the screen. The story basically revolves around a house and a little door. I'm not sure if its a ghost story or a parallel universe or some black hole dimension. I'm thinking black hole where another world can reach another through small portals. It certainly has a moral message for children. That being: just because you don't get what you want, doesn't mean your life isn't good. If you give it time, life will turn around. I also think that maybe what Coraline experiences really is just fantasy because she's just so bored and alone. The connection between dreams could probably be analyzed Freudian-like. I think that it is explicit enough to make the psyhco analysis clearly. The cat adds the was it really real or not? I also like the cat superstition. It always has to be a black cat I suppose. I'm sure this would be scary for children. I enjoyed the Botticelli reference and that other one which I think was Van Gogh or in the style of Van Gogh. This was good, just not phenomenal like The Nightmare Before Christmas, which may be why it rated it lower than I normally would for something of this genre and style.