“Coraline” opens world of imagination

Ryanne Bennett
March 30, 2009
Filed under Entertainment

Are you looking for a film that will let your imagination run wild? Would you like to be consumed with illusions of bright colors, taking you on an adventure through a parallel universe?

Director Henry Selick presents “Coraline”, a 3-D movie about a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) who is unsatisfied with her life because she feels her parents do not understand her. A typical teenage thought, wouldn’t you agree?

Things change when she and her parents move into an old house, where Coraline discovers a door that reveals more desirable version of her life. Coraline is then introduced to her other “mother”—an animated “mommy dearest” (Teri Hatcher)—and learns new secrets about her other world that should have stayed hidden.

But it is not just the story line that bring audience members young and old rushing to the theatre. Modern 3-D experts Henry Selick and Leeny Lipton team up for the film Coraline to bring more realism to the characters and scenes in this animated film. By using Stop-Motion, the experts photographed each scene separately so an object would appear to move on its own.

From beginning to end, Selick keeps the audience in awe of how real each scene in the film is. The technology brings out every feature of the characters, from facial hair to glimmering clothing. The combination of 3-D and stop-motion animation draws you into the character’s thoughts and feelings.

So next time you’re feeling bored and unimaginative find a pair of 3-D glasses and let the world of formatting whisk you to a place where enchanting dreams and imagination are literally at your fingertips.