Henry Selick's stop-motion movie Coraline (2009), is about a young girl named Coraline, played by Dakota Fanning, and her wild, mysterious adventure in her new home. This family film takes place at the Pink Palace apartments in Oregon holding three homes. Coraline and her parents voiced by Teri Hatcher & John Hodgeman, moved from Michigan and are writers who are working on a new garden catalog. While exploring her "boring" new home, Coraline discovers an odd closet. However, when she opens the door, it's just a brick wall. The next day she meets a new "friend" named Wybie, played by Robert Bailey Jr., who gives her a doll that looks just like her.
Later that night after meeting her new neighbors, she hears mice and decides to follow them which then leads her to the closet she had found only this time looked a lot different and is a tunnel that leads to another world. In this new world, Coraline thinks she found her mother, it was really her "other mother". After a few nights and loving this new world, Coraline's other mother and father asks her to stay with them forever on only one condition. After hearing this condition, she then realizes and learns more about the secrets of this "dream" of a new world. Will Coraline ever find her way out?
Although this is a family movie, I feel that some content of this
movie is not suitable for children. The movies includes parts as taking out
eyes and sewing buttons in replace which if you think about and picture it in
your mind, is very gory. Another part of the movie that is not suitable for
kids would be the two actresses that live down stairs that put on a show for
Coraline while she’s in her new world. One of the sisters were dressed from
bust down the other was completely naked with little covering her private
areas. The movie is a very good movie but just have a few parts that were not
appropriate for its rating.
i like how u included some background information of the movie in the introduction. The play-by-play was well written. it's good thing you didn't spoil the end. your opinion emphasizes how it wouldn't be appropriate for kids, which is good, because it gives readers a good idea of who should watch it. overall, i think you did a great job! (:
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Great Introduction and background info leading us in to the story line. Personally, I would have preferred spreading out your links instead of just doing the obvious ones. The Play-By-Play was also well written, and I enjoyed the fact that you left the ending a mystery. The tone of your writing was very informational during the play by play though. Your opinion was probably my favorite part, you engaged the reader and made great points on how the movie isn't best for children like it was intended. Overall, Great Job!
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