| | Coraline DVD (2 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Children's DVDs, Animation Movies, Family Videos, Children/Family, Children (About), Animated Characters, Animated Worlds, Fantasy, Based On A Novel, Fantasy Worlds, Families, Stop-Motion Animation | | Starring | Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, John Hodgman | | Director | Henry Selick | | Composer | Bruno Coulais | | Director of Photography | Pete Kozachik | | Producer | Henry Selick, Claire Jennings, Bill Mechanic, Mary Sandell | | Screenwriter | Henry Selick | | Source Writer | Neil Gaiman |
Animated; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles After creating a classic with THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, director Henry Selick crafts the first stop-motion animated feature to be filmed in three dimensions. Dakota Fanning voices a girl who finds a parallel universe lurking behind a door in her home, but the new world isn't all it initially appears. Based on Nail Gaiman's novel, CORALINE promises to be a favorite for both children and adults. As covetous children are often warned: "Be careful what you wish for." It’s this very cautionary wisdom that sets the stage for Henry Selick’s CORALINE, an eerily eye-popping stop-motion animation tale of fractured dreams and families made whole. As the films opens, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) and her parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman) have moved into the Pink Palace, a once-vibrant boarding house that’s turned drab and dilapidated. As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalog, the bored and belligerent Coraline is admonished to explore her new world’s possibilities. Along the way she meets her fellow tenants, including two aging English showgirls and a mouse-training Russian acrobat, as well as an outcast neighborhood boy named Wybie. But it is a mysterious hidden door that most piques Coraline’s interest--a gateway to a parallel world where her "other" parents and neighbors live only to see Coraline well fed and endlessly entertained. All is not cakes and carnivals for Coraline, though, and the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions. When these intentions are revealed, Cora and a friendly magical cat use their wits and willpower to defeat Coraline’s wicked "other mother" and restore balance in the real world. Based on Neil Gaiman’s beloved children’s novel, director Selick (THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS) uses the stop-motion technique to bring CORALINE to life with amazing visual and emotional depth. The result is a frightfully magical adventure that will give the whole family plenty to shriek, cheer, and talk about. Coraline Reviews: "This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of crating handrcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness." -- Grade: A-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The animation is absolutely breathtaking and should be seen in 3D to be fully enjoyed. The story is creepy fun..."-- Jenni Miller, Premiere "Selick's imaginative sets and puppets are in perfect pitch with Gaiman's fantasy. The 3-D effects aren't overdone but are used intelligently to make this world come brilliantly to life."-- Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter "Selick has complete command of the 3-D format, adding eerie depth and texture to the image..."-- Evan Davis, Film Comment 3 stars out of 4 -- "[T]hose who tough it out with this twisted, trippy adventure in impure imagination will only be the better for it."-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "The third dimension comes of age with CORALINE....CORALINE is a remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge."-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's gorgeous to watch in all its dazzling stop-motion animation splendor....It's exquisite images have an undeniable whimsical appeal."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today "[Selick] stays at child's eye level, letting the 3D process subtly reinforce how a youngster's imagination can be more vivid and real than reality itself."-- Mark Keizer, Box Office "[A]n exquisitely realized 3-D stop-motion animated feature....CORALINE lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling."-- A. O. Scott, New York Times "Everyone's in love with someone in HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU, a not-quite-romantic-comedy....Slickly adapted by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein from the popular book....[The film] rolls out like an instructional soap opera."-- John Anderson, Variety "CORALINE is a dark delight....This eccentric and deliriously inventive fantasy finds stop-motion auteur Henry Selick scaling new heights of ghoulish whimsy, buoyed by a haunting score that works its own macabre magic."-- Justin Chang, Variety Coraline | List Price | $29.98 (You save $6.59) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 2009 | | All Time Sales Rank |  16598  | | CD Universe Part number | 7551122 | | Catalog number | 62102029 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 21, 2009 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor | | Running Time | 101 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Includes 3-D version |
Coraline Movie Review Average Rating: (2.5 out of 5 stars)   Not the same 3-D quality as in Theaters
The movie is great but the 3-D version is so dark and hard to see, I switched to the 2-D side.
Submitted by Don (New York, USA) 
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 Coraline
Didn't care for it at all. Sorry
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3D Not For Everyone
If your a fan of stop-motion animation, then this movie is for you. What stood out to me during the whole movie was the quality and smoothness of the facial expressions, especially on Coraline herself. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought that they were CG effects added afterwards. A word of caution though, to those of you who suffer, as I do, from red/green color blindness. Chances are you won't get the full, or any, effect of the 3D process. I have yet to find a 3D effect based on color separation that I can actually fully experience. The good part though is the fact that the 2 disc special edition comes with both the 2D and 3D versions. This way everyone can enjoy it at their own pleasure. So if you're a fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas or The Corpse Bride, and the like, I would get this movie.
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Coraline DVD Region [unknown]
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: English, SDH, French, Spanish
Disc 1/Side A: Theatrical 2-D Version
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Director Henry Selick and Composer Bruno Coulais Disc 1/Side A: Theatrical 3-D Version
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