Coraline

I hadn't posted a review because I didn't really have much to say that half the people on my friends list haven't said already: it's good, go see it. It was selling out, here, its opening weekend, so it didn't seem to need my help. But I thought perhaps someone might be curious what I thought of it (after all, you are reading my blog) so I shall say this:

How refreshing! The art direction had a lot of integrity and ingenuity, was imaginative and bold, and weird to see 'blog style' actually in something, more or less unadulterated. The 3D was quite good, I thought, and authentic, probably because they were photographing an actual 3D set as opposed to pushing pixels. The story ... worked ... but I have always had problems with Neil Gaiman and most of my dissatisfaction with this movie stems from the same thing that leaves me dissatisfied with nearly everything else he does.* It's not that I have problems with it so much as it could just ... be ... better. And no, I haven't read the book. The animation was good if a little over-animated at times (argh 'Meet Wybie' sequence argh) and it was amusing to hear Keith David's voice coming from a cat. All in all, though: QUALITY. The end.

*Except Good Omens, for the most part, which ... I mean, TERRY PRATCHETT. Come on.