Saturday, February 28, 2009

ALERT- perchance there are spoilers ahead



This movie.
I will give you the set up.
A little girl: not unhappy, but angsty and disillusioned like all American children. She wants something better. (Also, she is supposed to be from Michigan, and she has the midwest accent DOWN. It was so well done, Dakota.)

She finds a little door that is bricked up during the day, but at night when her family is asleep, there is a tunnel leading to a beautiful version of her house.

With her "other mother," who bakes and gives her gifts.

and her "other father" who plays the piano and gardens.

It is a magical, perfect world that she can return to each night.

Except that it's not.
Except that this movie was SO stressful, and creepy, and I was scared out of my wits. (We know what a baby I am. I hear from others it wasn't as scary as I pretend, but that it was questionable whether or not PG was an appropriate rating.)
and yet,
It was excellent.
So well made. So well done.
Did you know that it was ALL STOP MOTION!?
Yeah. How freaking rad is that?
Terribly impressive.

Did I mention it was 3D? Travis almost peed his pants, it was so cool. (He's never been to a 3D movie with the cool glasses, he's only been to the blue/red ones, which are crappy.)
CHECK THIS OUT.

dang. I can't get it to link to it.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/coraline/
that's the trailer.
watch it.

3 comments:

Mary said...

I will never see this movie it looks way to creepy I always look away during it.

travis pitcher said...

It was totally worth in just because it was in 3D. I think I might even see High School Musical 14 if it was in 3D... wait... nevermind. I would never go see High School Musical anything because I would like to keep my soul.

Lana said...

So the story is supposed to take place in England... I wonder why they changed it.