The Anti Wall-e

Rating: 1/10 (22 February 2009)

First, the look of the movie is gorgeous. I love the use of animitronic puppets and real sets supplemented by cgi. It gives the movie a wonderful magical physics.
But, oh lord, the sorry sorry story. You remember in wall-e when you first met the character there was an instant emotional connection? You became emotionally invested in the movie and the thought of Wall-e dying was genuinely upsetting? And how in Wall-e, the story had twists and turns and kept you interested? Well, Coraline has none of that.
All of the main characters were uninteresting soul-less unsympathetic cutouts. The even managed to make the talking cat an unlikeable bore. The story has zero suspense or surprises, you pretty much know what is going to happen ten minutes into this thing. In short, it is an emotionally vacant, soul-less movie with a paint by numbers story line that looks good.
So if you liked Wall-e because the story was clever and you cared about the characters and not just because of the great looking computer animation; chances are good you'll hate this movie because all its got is its looks.