Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6032 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-10-12
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 97 minutes

DVD Description
Based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book and helmed by The Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick, is the first high definition, stop-motion animated feature to be shot in 3-D. In the film, a young girl (voiced by Dakota Fanning) walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life--only much better. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit other mother (voiced by Teri Hatcher) tries to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her stubborn determination, bravery, the aid of her neighbours and a talking black cat to save her real parents and some ghost children and to get back home.

Special Features
This limited edition contains 2 discs and 4 pairs of 3D glasses, as well as:
- 2D theatrical feature
- 2D version audio commentary
- Deleted scenes
- The making of Coraline
- 3D version is on disc 2

Synopsis
As covetous children are often warned: 'Be careful what you wish for'. It's this very cautionary wisdom that sets the stage for Henry Selick’s CORALINE, an eerily eye-popping stop-motion animation tale of fractured dreams and families made whole. As the films opens, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) and her parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman) have moved into the Pink Palace, a once-vibrant boarding house that's turned drab and dilapidated. As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalog, the bored and belligerent Coraline is admonished to explore her new world's possibilities. Along the way she meets her fellow tenants, including two aging English showgirls and a mouse-training Russian acrobat, as well as an outcast neighbourhood boy named Wybie. But it is a mysterious hidden door that most piques Coraline's interest--a gateway to a parallel world where her 'other' parents and neighbours live only to see Coraline well fed and endlessly entertained. All is not cakes and carnivals for Coraline, though, and the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions. When these intentions are revealed, Cora and a friendly magical cat use their wits and willpower to defeat Coraline's wicked 'other mother' and restore balance in the real world.
Based on Neil Gaiman’s beloved children’s novel, director Selick (THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS) uses the stop-motion technique to bring CORALINE to life with amazing visual and emotional depth. The result is a frightfully magical adventure that will give the whole family plenty to shriek, cheer, and talk about.

Customer Reviews

Attack of the Red and Green Glasses!
It is a bit odd that the majority of the reviews of this dvd are reviews of the film, not of the product you're thinking of buying. Like everyone else, yes, I'm a fan of Neil Gaiman, love his work, saw the film in stunning 3-D at the cinema and loved it.
When I saw that the DVD was going to have a 2-D and a 3-D version I was ecstatic! As the rest of my family had missed the trip to the cinema here was my chance to finally show them the wonder of this new 3-D process. Both my wife and I have been eagerly awaiting the release date so that we could sit there watching 3-D in our own living room. It sounds too good to be true. It is.
Instead of the polarized 3-D process which I saw at the cinema, which shows off the true colours and has a constant 'depth of field' we have again for the DVD release, the Red and Green glasses, which might give some illusion of 3-D (sort of)but are more likely to give you squiffy eyes and distort all the colours so much you wonder why you're bothering.
I think if I'd known that it was the Red/Green process that was going to be used then I might not have bothered.

An Excellent Nightmare!
This is a challenging film.I saw it first in the cinema, with a packed house and in 3D. Worth every penny! For parents and children, make no mistake, this is not some fluffy fodder to merely entertain. There is a profoundly atmospheric and emotive core to this film which isn't easy. Some viewers may find that its sombre and dark, almost gothic tone, is disturbing, as well they might, for it is so. That said, this is a wonderfully refreshing, contemporary "fairytale" that is uncompromising and inventive. There has never been a stop-motion,puppet animation film to touch this in technical terms. It is simply, stunningly, awesomely fine. But it is the content,the shift in tone, that makes this more than flimsy, family fodder. Will it scare the kids....? Oh yes! Will it scare the parents...? I think so, because it enters into the terrain of primary fears in a dreamlike way to which only those who are completely anaethetised may be immune. Comparisons have been suggested with "Alice in Wonderland" and they are fair enough. It is an "Alice" for our times, though I consider that such a statement doesn't necessarily do the film justice. This is great filmmaking. Selick is a filmmmaker infused with the drama of passion,style,sensitivity and taste."Coraline" is a complete winner and quite simply, unmissable. Oh, and by the way, don't miss the sensational animation at the end of the endcredits. Most viewers and audiences do.

Beware! Beware! Beware!
The 3D Coraline DVD on Amazon USA is the blue/red type, with blue/red cardboard glasses. It is NOT the polarized 3D version we saw at the movies! So make sure this one here is the polarized 3D version with polarized glasses before you buy, unless you enjoy blue/red 3D movies and don't get a headache from them!