First time watching Coraline movie reaction

A very unique film and story. The animation was fantastic. Shoutout to the cast and crew for this one. What was your reaction? What did we miss? Early Drops & Full Reactions on YT Memberships & Patreon: www.patreon.com/baddmedicine Backup channel Subscribe here www.youtube.com/channel/UC1CLUwA27dz-94o3FR0o3xg

There's so much to unpack in this film. I enjoy how at first glance the parents seem inattentive. When you look closer you see they're really just over stressed and worked, and Caroline is a bored child. The medal on the Russian neighbor's chest is a real medal, it was given to those that helped with Chernobyl.

My friend's dad worked on this film, which I thought was so darn cool! To explain their family struggles more, the mother was in an accident. That's why they mentioned her wearing a neck brace a lot, she hit a truck in their vehicle. Basically, because of medical expenses they were struggling financially and had to relocate to the Pink Palace. As indicated when they could only tip $1, and they emphasized the lack of food, not being able to afford the gloves, etc. It made the parents stressed and overwhelmed because they were trying to push out work on the catalogue. So they could get back on their feet financially. Unfortunately, their relationship with Coraline suffered as a result. So she wished for everything that the "Other Mother" gave her. It was a "the grass isn't always greener on the other side." Type of film as well as, of course, "Be careful what you wish for." I will share some links for you all if you want to read more about even more themes found in the film. It is based on a book by Neil Gaiman which would clarify more if you want to understand it further. I personally still need to read the book though, I've only seen the film. I will post the links in a message response to this. Sorry, you'll just have to delete the (spaces) so the links will work and not be flagged by YouTube. There will be 2 in each link by the www and the .com

This movie was an astronomical undertaking. It took over 500 people around 4 years to make. They averaged about 90 seconds of animation each week. Dakota Fanning celebrated 3 birthdays over the course of recording all of her lines. 1 Coraline puppet took about 3-4 months to make, and they made 28 Coraline puppets with 48 wigs and over 6,000 backup faces—all of which had to be sanded and painted by hand. Laika Studios made a behind the scenes videos. It's really interesting!

This movie is kind of like Oak's sparkly facepaint for the Twilight reaction. Excellent, but genuinely unsettling 😂

The Other Mother is very much a spider like creature, with all the imagery of insects around her. The Other World is her web to trap the children. And the cat was right on both counts. She wanted something that wasn't herself to love, but the nature of her "love" is that she will eventually consume the children she lures in and need another child to sustain her. She's like Pennywise, except instead of catching children with fear, she catches them with love and greed. She basically love bombs them and then feeds on their souls until they die/fade away, then uses the souls to power the illusions she uses to lure in the next fly to her web. Something else that I noticed on rewatch/after reading reviews, is that she made the Other Father and Other Wybie too well. She made them to love Coraline and they loved her so much that they were trying to get her to escape, even from the beginning. The Other Father's song is even a warning. "She's a peach, she's a DOLL... She's as cute as A BUTTON IN THE EYES... Our EYES WILL BE ON CORALINE". They wanted her to leave and be free of the trap because Other Mother made them to actually love her.

Never click so freaking fast on a notification lol!! This is my favorite "kids" horror film i even got a yellow rain coat!! 😂💛

Something I believe they left out of the movie that Oak would like, a nice lesson of bravery which is central to this whole story. Coraline tells the cat about a time she went exploring a trash dump off with her dad. While there, they were attacked by wasps. Her dad first saw them and told Coraline to run, taking most of the wasps and stings so she could get away with only a few stings safely. As they ran, her father dropped his glasses and had to return to the site of the attack to retrieve them: “It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again when he was really scared. That was brave. When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave"

The reason Coraline didn't get oak poisoning on both hands is because when Wybie shook her hand when they met, he had that same mud on the glove that the other mother used to smear the wound with later. Pretty detail.

Been treating us really well lately with all these movies.

The oak missed the message completely. Just because someone is giving you the best or doesn’t mean they have the best intentions for you.The author even talks about this in the how it’s made.

One of the quotes well applied to this movie is "Kids can handle anything, so long as there's a happy ending." I think Don Bluth said it. As a parent or an adult, you really worry for Coraline and feel for her (and her parents who seem very stressed), and think more about the danger associated with crawling through a magic hole and meeting a predator, but as a kid watching this, it's spooky but you know she's gonna be okay and that everything is fine at the end. There seems to be two very different perspectives!

I’m sure by now you guys have put it together, but I wanted to point out that the book this was based on was written by Neil Gaiman, ie- the same man that wrote Sandman. His writing is generally more focused on vibes than hard plots, hard world building, etc. He’s a writer that is more interested in how YOU interpret and interact with his work than what point HE’S trying to make.

So the stone thing is more than just a reference! It's a Seeing Stone, which in folklore were sometimes called "Hag Stones" and they were said to ward off bad spirits and witches. It usually had a hole created by the passage of water wearing away the stone. People hung them over their doors, wore them as talismans, and brought them on ships to help keep their boat safe. Somewhere along the way the myth got added that looking through the hole could reveal secrets or spells cast by the fae.

The perfect story of overindulgance vs neglect, or at least percieved neglect. Love how you can see the Other Mother slowly revealing her colors, her dresses becoming more arachnid like. And this is kinda dark, but I don't think I'm reading too much into it to get hints that the movie is a warning against the signs of grooming. Of course the Other Mother wanted to eat her, but she employs a lot of similar tactics that real world adults do when trying to gain the trust and favor of children when they have nefarious purposes.

Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl are two writers who don't pull their punches when it comes to "children's" horror. But there's always something to learn if not a moral.

my two favorite fun facts about this movie are 1) spink and forcible are actually married and 2) all the knit wear was done by hand with single strands of embroidery thread and two sewing needles, the amount of dedication to this movie makes me love it all the more

A thing I learned is that the opening sequence is "the other mother preparing Coraline for her funeral" as the tools in her "sewing kit" she used to make the doll are actually embalming tools, and the fact that she put sawdust in the doll, which is sometimes used in the embalming process

I still can’t believe Whybie wasn’t in the origin story. He’s such an integral and irreplaceable part of the story

Two weeks ago I finally managed to read the book, and I am honestly glad I did because I very much love it now, as for the movie I had the honor of the someone who worked on the production of the movie (our photography teacher invited them and he explained some stuff about the movie it was really cool) either way I'm always awed at how difficult and long this movie took to make