Title: Coraline
Thanks for the review Achim. Guess I now have to get it even more than I did before!
Did you watch the 2-D or the 3-D version? I just peeked into the 3-D version a little. While the 3-D effects are sometimes really nice (the mice, the hands), the colors get really murky. I suppose that's always a problem with 3-D - I have no experience in that regard as I have actually never seen a 3-D movie before.
...using those "grey" glasses (like they use in the cinema now) allowing for almost normal coloring.
Overall, I really liked it, but it is a bit padded out at times. Selick has expanded and changed the story to make it into a full-length feature. I don't think that was a good idea. The shorter Corps Bride and Nightmare before Christmas work better.
I haven't seen the film, but the original book by Neil Gaiman is pretty short.
I remember doing a review for this. Not here, but somewhere... I seem to remember liking the staircase, but just about nothing else. The story was terrible and it wasn't a patch on Ong Bak. I was really surprised just how different they were.