run, don’t walk, to catch coraline in theaters!

the first time i saw the trailer for coraline, i was hooked:  directed by henry selick, from “the nightmare before christmas”, based on the book by neil gaiman, with music by they might be giants… how could i NOT see it?  add to that: i love the style of the artwork involved AND a fairytale nightmare?  it’s a winner!

the story line is this:  young girl moves into new home, stumbles upon a “secret door” and discovers a parallel world, complete with an “other mother” and “other father”.  everything she could ever want seems to exist in this “other world”, only… something is amiss.  soon, coraline is forced to face down the “other mother” and win her way back to the real world.

watch the trailer:

the attention to detail within the movie is simply amazing.  in fact, i suggest watching “the biggest smallest movie ever made”:

and do NOT miss the website: www.coraline.com.  it takes awhile to load, but there’s all sorts of awesome goodies within the site, like the following:

you can make your own button-eyed photo…

me, with button eyes :O

have bobinsky’s circus mice spell out your name…

arin :D

create your own magical garden flower…

astrangia :D

for those who don’t want to wait out the website or hunt through it for it’s goodies, there’s also a coraline bookmark.pdf and a coraline sweater pattern.pdf and a bunch of coraline wallpapers.

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