Whimsical tale that doesn't have much to tell, animation similar to Tim Burton.

Rating: 7/10 (4 August 2009)

This is a generally visually interesting movie to watch, there's a lot of little touches here and there as eye candy but not really at the level required to prop up such a thin story, but overall the movie is pretty good and some of the scenes are really entertaining. The movie tends to have a slow pace with the storytelling developments that are similar to a young girl's imagination, brought to life through 3D animation looking like Tim Burton puppets for the most part.
PLOT: Coraline a little girl with blue hair who feels invisible except to the creep loudmouth kid up the street who stalks her, a situation which really annoys her. She is totally dissatisfied with her parents choices for her, the just don't "get" it. They move into a large ancient pink house with a secret door in the wall.. the door leads somewhere very interesting yet there's something creepy going on... hmmmmm.. oh but the door beckons... and it's a welcome escape from this drudgery...
plot development is thin and generally slow, a lot more effort could have been put into the richness of the script but there are some good animation scenes that show effort in that area at least. Worth a peek if you don't mind the slow pace, see it in complete darkness or in 3D as well for full effect. Some rather trippy scenes, but not groundbreaking.