A huge bummer!

Rating: 3/10 (24 April 2015)

I can't get over how bummed I was with this movie. The visuals - as most people suggest - are tremendous (and don't believe anyone who says that this was "CGI", or that it was bad. This is NOT a CGI movie! It's stop-motion animation, and it looks incredible.)
But that said, the story is incredibly flat, lifeless, and boring. I was shocked that this was based on something Neil Gaiman wrote (though I've yet to read it, and have read reviews that suggest the original text was terrific by comparison). Even more of a disappointment from the (usually) great Henry Sellick.
I also have no idea what anyone who compares this movie to WALL-E was talking about, unless they were tying to compare it equally. WALL-E was quite possibly Pixar's worst movie, starring a rip-off of Johnny 5 with preachy nonsense about Americans becoming fat. At least Coraline had interesting elements, even if they didn't go anywhere interesting.