![]() Also included is an 8-page booklet with behind-the-scenes stills and an essay from film critic Peter Debruge. Pressed on a BD-50 disc, the disc is housed in a standard case with an identical slipcover in a two-disc Blu-ray + DVD release. If you don’t have it in your collection, now’s the perfect time to pick it up.Ĭoraline finds a new home at Shout! Factory for its second Blu-ray outing. If you’ve never caught it or if it’s been a while, give it another run. It’d been some years since I last really sat down and watched this film and it was a genuine joy. The animation is impeccable, the cast is great, and the story is wonderful. This film captures the fantastical magic of the story and throws it on the big screen with incredible visuals. In the book, she’s mostly in her head and that wouldn’t have been nearly as cinematic or as effective. as Wybie gives Dakota Fanning's Coraline someone else to interact with. While there are some differences from the original story, Coraline is about as perfect as an adaptation can get. I still maintain that if/when they ever do another live-action Spawn movie by default he should do the voice no matter who wears the costume. Then we have Keith David as the cat and anytime that guy gets to do any voice work is a good day. French and Saunders are well, basically French and Saunders but really funny and hyper-exaggerated. ![]() I can imagine Ian McShane as a retired circus man. I can picture Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman as yuppie gardening bloggers. Obviously, the figures don’t really look like their respective actors, but they feel like they belong to them. But with Henry Selick and Laika a the helm, I want to keep coming back to this show.ĭakota Fanning, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Teri Hatcher headline this terrific voice cast. I probably wouldn’t have seen that movie. I can’t imagine this movie would be nearly as memorable or as well regarded when this was supposed to be a live-action movie. But small shortcomings aside, it’s still a good story told very well and in cinematic form executed by masters of their craft. The seemingly innocent pictures on the wall aren’t innocuous background details - they’re hints and clues.Īdmittedly Gaimen’s story wasn’t that unique, to begin with, it has a Return To Oz feel about it that I’ve never quite been able to shake. My one-year-old was enraptured by it even if he couldn’t cIn every nook and cranny there’s a finely detailed piece of world-building and each little piece adds to the story. It’s spooky, it’s more adult feeling thematically, as such parents might get more out of it than the little one in the room. So when you get an entire feature film made in that painstakingly slow process I get pretty excited!Ĭoralineis a dark children’s fantasy that feels like it belongs in the 80s when kids’ movies actually had bite and grit to them. There’s something magical about these creatures that CGI just doesn’t capture. Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved the look and feel of stop motion animation watching the classic Ray Harryhausen movies like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Clash of the Titans. It’s hard to write a more glowing review about a movie like this than the one we already have on file. Enois Duarte wrote for our 2009 Blu-ray Review of Coralineįor myself, I too love this movie. For an excellent review of the film, I’d like you to take a look at what my colleague M.
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