Go See Coraline

[Joanna Davidovich]

Seriously. I just got back. I was expecting a lot from this movie and I wasn't disappointed. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that left me this satisfied- wholly and incontrovertibly. I feel like I've just eaten a huge Italian dinner- I don't want to talk or think about what I've just experienced. I just want to pat my belly and gloat over the perfect pleasure of it.
I've stated before how much I love fairy tales- REAL fairy tales. Coraline is dark, delicious, creepy, irresistable fun. Congratulations to everyone involved on the film: you should all be damn proud of yourselves.

[Eric Alesczyk]

Ditto. I was fortunate enough to catch one of the 3-D showings and enjoyed the movie tremendously. I greatly admired that they didn't go overboard trying to show off the 3-D aspect, and at no point did I feel like they were banging me over the head saying "It's 3-D!". It was all done very well in that sense. Dakota Fanning was great and the visuals were delightful. I particularly enjoyed the sequences in the garden with Coraline's father and his mechanical praying mantis-thing, as well as the performance of the circus mice. It was great to hear Keith David in there too.

[Ellie]

I just saw it and I totally agree! :D Such a great movie!

[Eric Alesczyk]

That is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to hear about this movie. I haven't seen a movie that made me feel that way since I saw Synechdoche, New York six months or so ago. Well, I had a re-surgence of the same feeling when I saw The Dark Knight recently in IMAX, but I'm not counting that. I had already planned on seeing Coraline, but I am definitely going after reading this.