This movie didn't really do it for me. It took me about half an hour to figure out why...it's because it's a children's movie. I went into it thinking there were going to be some mature themes (they were definitely dark, but not mature) that would be targeted to me, but not in the slightest. It felt like watching an extended episode of "Are you afraid of the dark" or "Goosebumps", which albeit, were great shows to watch when I was 9, but 17 years later it's not going to be the same thrill.
At one point my sister came in and asked if I was watching Rugrats (a tv cartoon about toddlers, wow).
The visuals also seemed primitive to me. I think it's because Coraline was marketed as a Tim Burton feature (which he probably had nothing to do with besides selling his name), and it definitely didn't have the same quality as Nightmare before Christmas or Corpse Bride for that matter.
All that aside, there were a couple of cool moments. During the climax they did some cool effects with the visuals; and thematically the idea of having buttons sewn into your eyes to blind you from the not so pristine facts of life was pretty cool (but was only brushed upon).
I can't recommend this movie because I really had to push myself to finish it.
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