Coraline (PG, 2009)

Great movie! I hate people who keep saying it's too scary/innapropriate, because DUH. If you show a 8 year old (or under) this movie, which is intended to be creepy, they will obviously get creeped out. Jeez, people are ignorant now-a-days. Anyways, good movie. Great animation, original story. Very imaginative!

I regret not reading reviews before seeing this with my children. From the advertising, I thought it'd be ok for kids and didn't look very scary. I was so wrong. Some helpful reviews if you haven't seen it are from: missbunhead, ParkerH, peony,and AmyB. I'd recommend reading these because they give good details of the iffy aspects of the movie and explain some of the reasons why other people said what they did. I, personally, hated it. The first half was dark, slow, and left you wondering what in the world the story was about. It leads to intense and disturbing scenes that can be very difficult for some to see or hear. I should have left with my 2 younger ones,(4.8 and 6.5), but stayed because my husband and 8y/o daughter didn't see how it was too scary. I would compare it to The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock. It was well done, had good animation, and had an unusual storyline. I guess I can say that about it. I just don't like scary movies, period. I'd rather see films that make me feel good afterward and leave me thinking that yes, there is good in the world. I'm a bit more sensitive and so are my children(I'll admit that). They are very sweet, kind, loving kids, and I think if this describes your child then don't take them. I wish I wouldn't have seen it, but as I said earlier, my husband thought it was fine. The parts that disappointed me the most were: the old lady with massive, bouncing breasts having tiny stars covering her nipples and wearing a nearly unseen thong because her fat almost covered it all; the immense intensity of the creepy, scary scenes (which is nearly the whole movie); the thought of having buttons sewn on your(the girl's) eyes and on the mouth(the boy); the ghost children who lost their souls to the evil spiderwoman who had sewn buttons on their eyes; the swear word, and the thought that your parents might not be real and will eventually betray and abuse you. My 4&6 yr-olds had their eyes covered, curling up to me the whole last half of the film. But like I said, my children are happy, pleasant, kind children who wouldn't want to hurt anyone. They both had 2 bad dreams that my husband and I had button eyes within 2 weeks of seeing it, and my 4y/o has strongly requested multiple times to never see it again. I reassured her we won't. I'm surprised at how many children enjoyed this movie. I agree with missbunhead that this could be because of neglectful parents with little real morals. For those reading reviews from others who rated this movie as good, take a look at some of their usernames.

I HATE the movie Coraline! It is VERY bad and a lady has huge boobs! And on one part, she had only stickers on! She had only underware! And the other mother tries to kill all of the children! This movie IS NOT OK! The other mother also tries to sow buttons on her eyes! I am 8 and my little cuson is only 4! We both watched it and my little cousin dosn't think it's skary! I don't either. Coraline should of not of been a real movie! I will always try to tell the people that the movie Coraline, is THE WORST movie for children to watch. So if enybody has the people's phone number who made this, please tell me it!

theanimation and everything was great

I feel stupid right now, reading other reviews. At first, I got scared, then, after seeing the woman's face, I went from peepy to screepy. I was terrified, but I suddenly got used to mama spider. I chickened out in the beginnning, and wrote a review in the middle of the movie. I erased the whole thing except the first sentence. Then, I finished watching the whole movie, and felt glad that it finished. I used my copy book here to shield my eyes just in case something scary happened. My brother showed up, eight going nine, and shooed him away, not wanting him to go through the movie. I watched the movie because of Dakota Fanning! Or you can say that...I saw it on Box Office long time ago, and told myself I would watch it, but that is until I saw that Dakota Fanning voiced the main character. I went from happy to excited to gloomy to scared to terrified to relieved. Funny how much this movie puts on me.

I had not read the book previously, so I believe I can give a decent review of the movie. The premise is definitely dark, but appealing. Coraline is a likable character. Her distracted parents cause her to wish for a better world/family. Personally, I wouldn't take children to this movie, and I was concerned for the 4yrs through teen crowd that was in the theater. There is a fairly long scene in which the two older ladies do a stage performance for Coraline and her friend, that is totally inappropriate for children. The first lady was dressed in a mermaid costume. While her sister was in a g-string and pasties! This grandmother aged woman had disproportionately large breasts and was swinging on a trapeze. this scene was not necessary to the movie's plot, and lasted for a seemingly long time. There were gasps, and then total silence. I don't believe anyone in our theater appreciated that scene, other than the two early teen boys.

I'm an 11 year old girl and I think that this movie is " iffy" for kids 11 and 10, "on" for 12+, and "off" for kids 9 and under. One scene that was partially disturbing was the one scene close to the end where Coroline is in the "other world" and she goes and watches a performance by the two elderly women. At the beginning of the show, after the first elderly woman does her first song, the elderly woman, Maurice, pops up (after a slide of the dogs running the opposite way on a giant rodent wheel) wearing a small thong ( which shows her buttocks briefly) and two small seashells covering only her nipples. Both outfits are very...,well,...revealing. The rest of that section and the torso are bare. Another reason this is disturbing is that some womens breasts are exagerated, sometimes greatly and sometimes minimumly, in size.There are one, maybe two uses of the word cr*p. I also rate this "iffy", "off", and "on", is because of the creepyness portion of the movie. One disturbing feature is the button eyes.CREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also do not like How the " Other Mother" eats bugs, and is basically a spider herself.It is kind of scary when the "Other Father" says, "So sharp you won't feel a thing" when they are talking about the ' putting buttons over the eyes buisness. My sister and I were kinda scared and I couldn't go to sleep. I had to sleep in my moms room! Remember!!! It all counts on the kid. Not really a grown-up movie at all.

I mistakenly let my 5 year old watch this movie when given to her by a friend. Although the movie was very well made. It is defenatly unsutable for children under 9. Very disturbing, morbid images and a storyline not condusive to a child younger than 9.

great movie with scares, laughs, and more!.....