Really bad adaptation

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2009)

I just saw this movie after reading the book a few days ago. I have to say... It sucks. It just plain sucks. It does to the novel what Constantine did to Hellblazer. It makes unnecessary changes, which is a deadly sin in my opinion. There's no question about some changes that have to be made when converting a novel. But not a single one of those here were justified. It has minute-long shots of dancing mice and dancing flowers, a really lame song of the other father and invents even a whole new character which is simply dull and unnecessary. Not to mention it transposes the story to America and makes Coraline about four or five years older. Where the novel was wonderfully written, creepy and suspenseful, this flick is just boring, repeating and very... americanized. The novel is a modern European fairytale. The Movie is a Disney-like animation movie. The Novel stands in line with Alice in Wonderland and every classic fairytale. The Movie stands in line with Nightmare before Christmas and Lilo&Stitch. This should sum it up good.