WHAT LAIKASTUDIOS SAYS:
For the last three years, the world's oddest and most talented animators, artisans, and puppet fabricators have been hand-making LAIKA's first animated feature film Coraline. Led by Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, this team has created the first stop-motion feature shot in stereoscopic 3D. Based on the beloved best-selling children's classic by Neil Gaiman, Coraline is a fairy-tale nightmare steeped in classic storytelling, craftsmanship, and the old-fashioned art of moviemaking magic. In Coraline, a young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life - a better version. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure truns dangerous and her "Other" parents try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home.
OUR REVIEW:
Parents need to know this is a dark, creepy movie where characters are witch-like and frightening. The "other" mother may have killed three other children and Coraline is finds herself in danger more than once. There is nothing directly sexual in the movie, however there are two over-developed women wearing scantily clad costumes. Language is fairly harmless, mostly name calling.
The overall message of the movie is that the grass is not always greener on the other side and living with imperfect parents is better than living with fake ones.
