| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Handcrafted plastic animation, as it should be - sans soulless CGI. This movie exemplifies the basic difference between an automobile made by hand and one straight off the production line.
Stylized to stress character, this also successfully diverts attention from the issue of movement being not entirely human so that the audience does not get bogged-down in naturalism issues since the characters have to express their selves through motion somehow.
The vocal performances are excellent although Dakota FANNING is limited to using her voice to get the character of Coraline across to the audience when she is rather more of a visual actress.
Brilliant sfx and music notwithstanding, this cautionary tale of wishing for something more than you have because you do not fully realise the value of what you have is less than impressive as a piece of storytelling.
It takes far too long to get the story started as it spends the first half of its running time trying very hard to impress us with how clever the animators and the voice artists are.
In the end, this is a warmed-over story done many times before and mostly better. A pity since the talent here is of a high order but they forgot to come up with either an original story or an original treatment.
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