Coraline

CREEPY is one way to describe “Coraline”. When I think of PG rated movies I imagine a pleasant family movie with singing and laughter. This is not one of those films. It's more like the children’s version of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, of course without the actual killings, but still the presence of ghost spirits of children who didn’t realize the dangers in time. And as always the curious and adventurous ones wind-up dead. This movie might have a familiar feel because the director, Henry Selick, also worked on “The Nightmare Before Christmas” in 1993, another creepy movie that should be about Christmas. He worked with the writer, Neil Gaiman, in 2009 to cast his movie “Coraline”. The main character is Coraline Jones played by Dakota Fanning, who is no newbie when playing lead roles. Her mother and father in the animated series, Mel Jones and Charlie Jones, was …show more content…
The kid feels unappreciated and alone so she decides to act out and find ways to get her parents to notice. What better way to get your parents to notice you when you’ve gone missing. When Coraline enters the other world, her whole journey is like a circus act from Miss April Spink (Jennifer Saunders) and Miss Miriam Forcible (Dawn French) who put on a trapeze act for her to Mr. Sergei Alexander Bobinsky(Ian McShane) who put on a rat show for her. Then she find her fantasy parents who seem to be the ring leaders of the whole show and realize there is no place like home. Coraline realizes her mistake and tries to go home, but she can’t leave this nightmare. “Coraline” is definitely not a movie for younger ages to see. Yes, the characters are funny shaped, but the movie allude to imprisonment and sexual images of older women. It is also a lot going on visually during each scene which can be hard to follow even for some adults. Overall, this film should be for ages 10 &