Overrated Boring Copycat

Rating: 3/10 (3 February 2010)

Those are the 3 words that come to mind. Highly overrated. Apparently there's a large audience of gullible Tim Burton fans that will rate highly anything with Burton's style.
I didn't read the book and this film certainly isn't didn't motivate me to read it. When it comes to film adaptations, 2 things will generally get me to read a book: a great story or an entertaining original film that seemed over manipulated. Neither apply to Coraline.
This year, there are two cartoons worth watching: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Up. In that order. As a bonus, both are spooky, as opposed to faux horror, in their own unique ways, so if you want a little horror mixed into your cartoon, they give you that too.