Mom Knows Everything

Did you ever hear that old saying 'Be careful of what you wish for because you just might get it'? Well that is exactly what happens in Coraline. Coraline, played by Dakota Fanning, is a an eleven year old girl who just moved to a new apartment with her parents. Coraline feels like her parents never have enough time for her and wishes she had different parents. While exploring her new home Coraline finds a small door that leads to another world, or more exactly another set of parents. These parents at first seem perfect to her, but things are always what they seem at first.

Coraline is a stop motion animated movie, available in 2-D and 3-D, from the amazingly talented Tim Burton of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' fame. It is based on Neil Gaiman's children's book and is screen-written and directed by Henry Selick. Coraline stars the voice talents of Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), John Hodgman (The Daily Show), Ian McShane (Deadwood) and Keith David (Crash).

The kids really enjoyed this movie as well as I did. The 3-D effects were absolutely amazing! At one point I really thought there were dragonflies in my living room. Not only did the kids enjoy watching this movie, they watched it over and over and over again.

One of the things that I thought was amazing about the movie was the gardens. Universal Studios has setup this amazing website called www.coraline3dgarden.com that you can have a lot of fun with. You need to print a picture off of the website, hold it up to your web cam, click through with your mouse on the sign and flowers, then blow into your microphone and be amazed at what happens. Note, you do need to have ActiveX plug-in installed on your computer as well as a web cam and microphone.

Here is the Coraline official movie trailer.



Here's a video about voicing the characters with Teri Hatcher.




Here are some scenes from the movie.

Coraline is available on July 21st. It comes in Blu-ray™ Hi-Def combo pack, 2-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD and single disc DVD. All of these feature a 2-D and 3-D version with 3-D glasses included. There is lots of added bonus features on the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def combo pack, 2-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD which include a digital copy of the movie. You can purchase this movie retail stores and at online stores such as Amazon.