CORALINE - REVIEW
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Director: Henry Selik
Cast: Teri Hatcher,Dakota Fanning,Dawn French,Jennifer Saunders,Keith David
Rating: 2/5
Don't we all sometimes wish we had different parents? That we could go
to sleep and they would be completely different in our deans? Coraline
is experiencing just that.
Her parents are writers and so focussed on their work they have lost
the spark in their lives and feel as though she us a nuisance rather
than their greatest achievement.
Coraline could have been directed by Burton or Zemeckis as the visuals
gave all the hallmarks of Corpse Bride or Monster House
respectively. The ghosts if both were probably hovering over him
during the process.
Terri Hatcher(Desperate Housewives)and Dakota Fanning (Charlotte's Webb)voiced the mother and daughter at the centre of the story and proved competent in their roles.
My problem with Coraline was the same as my suspicions of the trailer.
It didn't grab me. To me Selik was making an arthouse movie for a
niche adult audience that just happened to be animated and have
children in it.
It felt as though there were two ideas at work that didn't quite marry
together. This left me feeling under whelmed.
As with each new animated film the technology gets better and more
colours are added to the palette however the droll greys greens and
The cast of colourful characters including a Coraline's talking cat,
had more oomph than the story or the visuals. My screening wasn't
shown in 3D but I dare say the extra dimension would improve the movie.
If I had children I wouldn't take them to see this. It would give them nightmares. If it finds an audience at all, it's going to be the "emo" crowd who are impressionable enough to want to sew buttons into their face because the movies said it was how to make people love them.
Not the right message to be sending.
