Coraline

My favourite part of Coraline is the dark feeling of the movie.   It just makes everything different, or spooky, in a way that I like.  It is made for children around 10, or even teens.  Adults tend to like it too, but as a horror story while children think of it as an adventure.  Coraline is one of my favourite movie’s of all time.

It all started when Coraline Jones moved into a creepy new house.  She is always bored, since her parents are always busy and when they’re not, they ignore her.  So she explored around the new house which is split into three parts.  Coraline visited the two retired actress’ who are living in the same part and a man who is training a mouse circus, which is all very weird.  Anyways, she is still bored and her dad who is doing nothing told her to count all the doors in the house.  It is then she came across a door with a brick wall behind it.  She experimented with the door a bit, and went to bed after eating dinner.

Coraline woke up in the middle of the night, woken up by the squeaking sounds the mice under her bed are making.  She followed the mouse, because she thought she would not go back to sleep anyway or just random curiosity to the bricked door earlier.  Strangely, the mouse can pass through the door.  Coraline opened the door, and the brick wall disappeared.  Instead of the brick wall, there is a peculiar tunnel.  She climbed through the tunnel, and ended up in her house where she just was.  But something’s different.  The house is decorated nicely, and her parents have buttons instead of eyes.

The Coraline movie is based on the book by Neil Gaiman, which is also named Coraline.  The movie is made by using stop motion, and as you all know stop motion films are very hard to make.  I watched the movie 2 times, one time when I was about six and I thought of the movie as a horror movie.  Now that I’m year 7, it just looks like an adventure story.