Coraline [DVD] [2009]

My granddaughter (age 6) brought her DVD over to watch on "girls night.." She's afraid of zombies and monsters, but loves this movie. I'll warn that a couple of parts seem bizarre, but it's not as scary as it seems. It deals with bravery; what you have versus what you want; and whether things or people are what they appear to be. Watching with other family members, the children squeal and call out to the characters as kids do. But they understand and talk together and with us about the dilemmas, always favoring the good side. I purchased two copies so I could keep one here.

Great movie I watched it with my granddaughter and she loved it. She liked it so much that she watched it 5 times in a row.

Coraline is probably the best stop motion animated film I have ever seen, better than ParaNorman, Frankenweenie and even The Nightmare Before Christmas (Yeah, I went there) with a great story that is very dark, great visuals, terrific animation and pitch-perfect performances which isn't as fondly looked back on than it deserves. The PQ and AQ stand up and is totally worthy of this film with the PQ of the 2D and 3D being amazing and just.... Wow! I noticed no crosstalk or ghosting on my 3D TV, so its one of the best 3D Blu Ray pictures ever, with it being just a hair dark, but other than that, terrific. The audio is also a match for the PQ, so no problems hearing dialogue, music or sound f/x's here. The extras carries over most (Most.... losing the 3 P-in-p in movie tracks which are pretty good, and is worth keeping your previous release to just have the complete package) of the extras from the original Blu Ray, with the awesome commentary with Henry Selick and Bruno Coulais, 8-minutes of deleted scenes, a 35-minute making-of documentary and 2 featurettes rounding off this impressive, though not complete 3D/2D combo disc. The DVD included is supposed to be the original 1-disc DVD with just the commentary, but mine contains the second disc from the 2-disc DVD set which only has extras and the digital copy, but still nice to have. All in all, worth owning, but not above $20 for the 3D.

Laika's first major outing with one of the best stop-motion directors of all time. This move is so magical.

My family adores this movie and you can't beat bluray for this price!