Review on Coraline
Plot- Coraline moves into a new house with her mum and dad who are so devoted to their work that their lives are entirely evolved around work; leaving their daughter Coraline feeling ignored and alone.
Coraline later discovers a secret door underneath the wall paper in one of the rooms of the new house, board and curious Coraline crawls through the door leading into a passage to a parallel world. She soon realises that the house she has just entered is not an ordinary house as her “new mum” and dad are the opposite to how they really are; clean, tidy, cooking homemade food and most importantly for Coraline they relate to her and put her in front of their work unlike her real life at home.
The main focus in the story is based on the image of her “new mum and dad” as they act so differently and nice but instead of eye balls they have black buttons, Coraline realises this is strange but the fact that her parents are behaving how she would like them to over comes the fact that her parents have buttons for eyes. Coraline is put into bed at night by her “new parents” falling to sleep in the comfort of her new and caring parents; she awakens the next day finding herself in her own bedroom back at home again with her real parents. Coraline unsure about her little trip into the parallel world thinks that it was a dream until she finds clues proving that she was in another world and is excited by this and wants to go back at her next chance of seeing her new parents again.
Coraline keeps going back to her new parents know that when she falls to sleep she will be back at home again, this doesn’t go on for too long until her new parents ask for Coraline to have black buttons sewn to her eye’s; this worries Coraline and she tries to get back home again finding that her parents have also been trapped in the parallel world. With the help of her friend and a cat; Coraline manages to find her parents but battles as her new parents who have now transformed into their original scrawny selves try to stop her from rescuing her parents and getting back to the real world. Coraline succeeds in getting her parents back home and realises that her life is better than she thought and manages to encourage her parents to leave their work and spend more time with her.
Target audience- The target audience is mainly aimed at children; I would say children of around 7 plus as it may be a little too dark for the younger generation. Children can relate to Coraline as they sometimes feel a little left out by their parents and often feel board. They can relate to her as been the board child that discovers a secret passage to another world, this is a dream to a child as they love the idea of finding a secret place and a place that appears to be like magic; this is similar to Coraline only her secret place is a magic place where she gets the parents of her dreams. Although the animation is mainly aimed at children, it’s also aimed at adults as some of the dialog is used in a way so that children see the point directly to how it is being read; but the adults understand both sides of the joke.
How does the film keep the audience engaged? – The storyline keeps the audience engaged as we follow the adventure of a young girl called Coraline, as she realises what she is getting herself into her problems become worse and the battle to get back to her normal life continues.
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