Coraline

Don't you hate it how you love a book, and you get excited when they go to make it into a movie, but you find yourself disappointed, not with the animation, but the storyline? Henry Selick was great with the stop-motion, but the script seemed wrong. Coraline portrayed more innocence in the book, and here in the movie you have this bratty, snobbish, blue-haired, blue-finger nailed punk teenager. What's with the blue hair? Coraline has brown hair, and her fingernails definitely aren't blue. (I didn't imagine the door so tiny.)

In the book, Coraline had a conscience, and she used it. She knew instantly that something was wrong with the other world, right as she saw the other mother's button eyes. In the movie, on the other hand, Coraline is a gullible, easily-tricked snob, that is disrespectful to her real parents. And come to he subject of her real parents, why were they such jerks? In the book, they were busy with work, yes, but they showed that they really wished they could spend time with their daughter. They were patient. But in the movie, here you have these two drunk-looking adults that don't give a crap what their kid does.

And where did this Whybe kid come from, or however you spell his name? He ruined the end. Coraline was supposed to kill the other mother's hand alone, and in broad daylight. They made a whole other character defeat it! This was one of the first things by which the moral of the story was lost.

Okay, let me start off by telling you the clear moral in the book. Be brave; find out who you really are. They LOST this! They thought the moral was "be careful what you wish for"! Why didn't Coraline and the cat say my two most favorite lines in the book?:

Coraline: That wasn't brave. Something that's brave is something you're scared to do, but you do it anyway.

Cat: Cats don't need names. They already know who they are. 

(I'm glad they launched the kitty at the other mother's face :)

WAAH! Why? WHY?

They didn't even put my favorite song in it! They only put the ice cream one, which was cute, but not enough. My favorite song:

We are small but we are many

We are many we are small

We were here before you rose

We will be here when you fall

I love that song! It's AWESOME!

I was satisfied with the other mother's voice. She made it creepy and AWESOME! And her transformation was cool. But why did the kids in the closet have button eyes? They didn't let the other mother do that. Coraline was supposed to look for their souls, not their eyes.

And I really wish they did the part where Coraline didn't run, she did something else. She pulled off her other father's button eye! It showed how she was brave. Heck, the whole story did. At the beginning she was afraid of a new house, neighborhood, and a new school, but the experience with the other world helped her overcome that.

Why did they make it American!? It took place in England, a whole other continent! It was better British!

What I liked, though, was how she goes into the other Misses Spink and Forcible's theater, and they're in the cocoon. But they weren't in a cocoon in the movie, they were in a candy. But it was cool, because they were as creepy as I had imagined them!

It was really disappointing at the end that they parents were still jerk wads. They acted like they didn't have a clue that anything happened, and the only reason they were celebrating was because of their stupid flower catalogue. In the book,  the parents knew something had happened, and they really tried to spend more time with Coraline.

So I'm really wondering what Neil Gaiman thinks of it. If you haven''t read the book, you'll love it, but if you have, all you'll get is disappointment. Not that I wasn't entertained, it was really fun to watch. Great animation. Coraline and her real parents made me mad. Bratty, snobbish family, they were...

I'm really, REALLY wondering what the author thought. I bet he worked so hard to fit that moral in to such a great story, and here they go and spoil it in this Americanized film. It's not right! Erg, Henry Selick and the script writer!

We have teeth and we have tails

We have tails and we have eyes

We were here before you fell

We will be here when you rise...