{"id":11871,"date":"2009-02-08T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T07:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/02\/08\/11871.html"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:40:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T07:40:25","slug":"coraline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/02\/08\/coraline\/","title":{"rendered":"Coraline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We went to see Coraline<\/cite> tonight. I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it this weekend on my own, but others were going so I tagged along.<\/p>\n

I had seen a preview a couple weeks back, and wasn't impressed. I didn't especially like Nightmare Before Christmas<\/cite>, and iIrc I quite liked the animation of James and the Giant Peach<\/cite> but found much of the movie (except the one Roald Dahl song that survived intact) pretty forgettable.<\/p>\n

So I was guessing that I would enjoy the visuals in Coraline<\/cite> but not especially like the movie.<\/p>\n

But I was wrong. It's a lovely, delightful, charming, and (in a good way) spooky movie. It's hard to be sure of this, because I've seen several movies I liked quite a bit lately, but I think this is my favorite movie of the ones I've seen in at least the past several months.<\/p>\n

It has a few moments when it states things a little too directly\/explicitly. And I wouldn't recommend taking small kids to it unless you know they like creepy\/spooky\/scary stuff. And it's been long enough since I read the book that I can't comment on how faithful this movie is to the original; I'll have to go back and re-read it now. I did quite like the book<\/a>, rather to my surprise at the time; I think both book and movie looked on the surface like things that wouldn't appeal to me, but both turned out to appeal to me quite a bit.<\/p>\n

No spoilers here, but I think my favorite thing in the movie is something that's evident within the opening couple of minutes: Coraline's mouth is very expressive, and I love the attitude that it expresses. I think a lot of what makes me like this movie so much more than Selick's (and Burton's) others is that I adore the protagonist here.<\/p>\n

. . . I should note that we saw the 2D version. I have yet to watch any of the latest generation of 3D movies; I suspect I wouldn't feel that the effect added much, but I don't know.<\/p>\n

Amusing side note: as we were leaving the theatre, I overheard a snippet of conversation between two adults who had been sitting a row or two back from us (there were no kids with them):<\/p>\n

\"I'm surprised. I thought this was rated G, but [character] said 'rat crap' so I guess it must be PG.\"<\/p>\n

(The amusing thing about this, in case it's not clear, is that there's a lot of other stuff in the movie that I would have thought of sooner as likely to result in a PG rating. The MPAA's actual PG rating is for \"thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor.\" So I guess the phrase \"rat crap\" may've been part of it, but I suspect not the main part.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I'm drifting from my main point, which is: Coraline<\/cite>. Good movie. Go see it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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