Review #9: In Theatres - Coraline

NOTE: There Are SPOILERS Below

Here is a quick summary of the film before I get started -->

Coraline is a precocious young girl who moves to a new house in the middle of nowhere with her distant parents. While exploring the eerie house, she stumbles upon a door into another dimension where parents are attentive and the dull mansion grounds are lively. Everything seems perfect right up until Coraline learns that in order to stay in this "Other World", there's just one little she has to do.....

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I'm going to try something new and fairly simple-- just do a pro/con list:

GOOD THINGS:
- Voice Acting by every single person in the movie is perfect and I don't think I would have replaced a single person
- Its visually beautiful, especially when Coraline tours the garden her Other Father made for her and when she goes to see her Other Neighbors's show
- I love the Black Cat that helps Coraline -- that character works perfectly - The Other Mother's slow decomposition into the real monster she also worked well
- They added a new character named Wybie -- Wyborn -- as an offbeat kid that has a grandma with a past the ties into Coraline's present predicament

BAD THINGS:
- The Other Father sings the 'They Might Be Giants' song and then kind of melts (literary and metaphorically) away in a sudden and has a... pointblank disturbing transformation into a vegetable-state drone
- It began to be somewhat "video-gamey" when Coraline had to find the the other kids' souls - The theatrical sisters that live downstairs have dialogue that's just a little too eccentric for their characters, which themselves are too eccentric
- As good of the introduction of Wybie and his grandma were, I wish they had delved into his grandma's past even further