Movie Review: Coraline (2009)

by Iranian For Aryans.

“I watched this horror-fantasy stop-action claymation tale tonight. Like its predecessor, A Nightmare Before Christmas, I was very impressed. Both productions are macabre, phantasmagoric, and utterly wild in their conceptions and depictions of other-worldly scenes and places.

Essentially, this tale is one that centers around a situation that is “too good to be true.” Coraline, a pre-teen, bereft of parental attention and interaction, opens a small door in her house that leads to another dimension that is a saccharine replica of her world. In this nether-world, her every wish is fulfilled and she is beloved by everyone. Alas, all is not what it seems, as things are too good to be true, and every person and creature has frightful buttons...

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Mar 16th 2009
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