Sing A Song About Coraline!

A little late, but I'm doing a few posts about movies I've seen recently. Starting with Coraline. I read the book by Neil Gaiman a few months ago after I heard about him through a writer I worked with named Chauncey.

Coraline is a wonderful movie in the true spirit of the dark and scary nature of Tim Burton. I don't suggest bringing small children to this movie, though it was innocently marked with a PG rating. The other world was frightening at times. The 3D was kind of ho-hum. It was more like being in the room with the characters than having things jump out at you.

11-year-old Coraline Jones moves into the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon with her busy parents, Mel and Charlie Jones. When Coraline does all her tasks her parents asked her to do, she goes to meet her neighbors, Mr. Bobinsky, and Miss Spink & Miss Forcible. After the ladies tell her about an old well not far from the house grounds, Coraline decides to find it by using a dousing rod. While searching, she meets an odd boy named Wybie Lovat, and it would appear that she and Wybie have a small "love/hate" relationship. Although Coraline found Wybie annoying, he showed her where the well was. After returning home, Coraline goes to sleep in her new bedroom. She then wakes up hearing a strange noise and sees a mouse in her bedroom. Thinking its one of Mr. Bobinsky's mice, she chases it to the parlor of her home and finds a small door. Curious to where it leads, Coraline goes through it, and finds she's in an alternate version of her house. She then meets inhabitants of the Other World, such as her Other Mother, Other Father, her Other neighbors, and even Other Wybie. She ends up loving the Other World, and visits every night. Her Other Mother says she can stay in the Other World forever if she is willing to sew buttons into her eyes. Coraline then refuses and goes to bed, thinking she'll wake up in her real bedroom. But when she wakes up, she's still in the Other World. She realizes the true dangers of the Other World, and discovers that her real parents were captured by the Other Mother, who is also referred to as "the Beldam". Now Coraline must count on her courage and a mysterious talking black cat to escape the Other Mother's tricks and traps, rescue her parents, and free the trapped trio of ghost children.