Animated Fangirling
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e_phemerartReally liked the movie CORALINE.
The doll imagery! The cat! Spunky Coraline! The surreal scotties and their daffy taffy ladies! The rat circus!
I did not particularly care for the addition of Wybie, boy sidekick (the cat was enough in the book). Guess they thought they needed to include a boy character for wider gender appeal amongst a young audience. The character reminded me rather gratingly, in look and personality, of Ron Stoppable in the cartoon Kim Possible.
Also, mothers got kind a bad rap all around in the movie. (sniff-sniffle, guess I'm sensative to that) Real Mother wasn't too pleasant to begin with (but remember this was Coraline's childsworld view of her parenting, and eventually she did decide home with her real parents was where she wanted to be), and Other Mother was your usual sugarcoated step-mother as awfully wonderfully creepy over the top villianess. Real Dad and Other Dad were more lovable toward Coraline, but ineffectual.
One of the previews before the movie was for a new Tim Burton production, an animated feature* "9"; how'd I miss that? Last I knew about him directing was an upcoming live action Alice in Wonderland. The animated fantasy 9 will be released by Focus Features on September 9. The release date is the ninth day of the ninth month of 2009, purposely aligning itself with the film's numeric theme. Burton produced the film, which has a voice cast featuring Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, and John C. Reilly.
IMDB also shows that a remake of FRANKENWEENIE is in the works, as a full length stop motion feature. Cool!
http://hollywood-animated-films.suite101.com/article.cfm/tim_burton_on_alice_frankenweenie
http://www.timburtoncollective.com/labels/frankenweenie.html
*Tim Burton and Henry Selick were coproducers of the classic Nightmare Before X-mas.
The doll imagery! The cat! Spunky Coraline! The surreal scotties and their daffy taffy ladies! The rat circus!
I did not particularly care for the addition of Wybie, boy sidekick (the cat was enough in the book). Guess they thought they needed to include a boy character for wider gender appeal amongst a young audience. The character reminded me rather gratingly, in look and personality, of Ron Stoppable in the cartoon Kim Possible.
Also, mothers got kind a bad rap all around in the movie. (sniff-sniffle, guess I'm sensative to that) Real Mother wasn't too pleasant to begin with (but remember this was Coraline's childsworld view of her parenting, and eventually she did decide home with her real parents was where she wanted to be), and Other Mother was your usual sugarcoated step-mother as awfully wonderfully creepy over the top villianess. Real Dad and Other Dad were more lovable toward Coraline, but ineffectual.
One of the previews before the movie was for a new Tim Burton production, an animated feature* "9"; how'd I miss that? Last I knew about him directing was an upcoming live action Alice in Wonderland. The animated fantasy 9 will be released by Focus Features on September 9. The release date is the ninth day of the ninth month of 2009, purposely aligning itself with the film's numeric theme. Burton produced the film, which has a voice cast featuring Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, and John C. Reilly.
IMDB also shows that a remake of FRANKENWEENIE is in the works, as a full length stop motion feature. Cool!
http://hollywood-animated-films.suite101.com/article.cfm/tim_burton_on_alice_frankenweenie
http://www.timburtoncollective.com/labels/frankenweenie.html
*Tim Burton and Henry Selick were coproducers of the classic Nightmare Before X-mas.
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Date: 2009-02-09 08:58 pm (UTC)It was notable to me that Real Mom and Real Dad really didn't have any development in the movie. Coraline learned to appreciate them because uhm..they weren't eating her soul? And they caught a financial break that pulled them out of their tough time, and that made everything better?
But really, the story wasn't about the parents. And it is a common problem, getting so wrapped up in 'grown up' worries and responsibilities that the kids get pushed to the side. So uhm... pie?
9 does look really really good too, looking forward to it.
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Date: 2009-02-10 03:10 pm (UTC)biased toward books...
Date: 2009-02-10 03:19 pm (UTC)I may be book-centric, but I do love stop motion animation as a creative visual form. CORALINE definitely goes on my collection list to be purchased later on DVD.
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Date: 2009-02-11 10:02 pm (UTC)