Guest Author - Terry L Kosse
Coraline - Based on the book by Neil Gaiman. Coraline is about an eleven your old girl (voice of Dakota Fanning) who moves to an old apartment with her parents. She soon befriends a young boy named Wybie (voice of Robert Bailey Jr.) and a feral cat (voice of Keith David). Early in this friendship, Wybie finds an old doll in his grandmother’s chest in the attic and gives it to Coraline. Strangely the doll resembles Coraline. Wybie had left a note telling that the doll had belonged to Wybie’s grandmother’s sister, who had disappeared long ago. Coraline being lonely in her new surroundings starts to wander out of boredom. Soon finding a secret door that had been wallpapered over Coraline gets her mother (voice of Teri Hatcher) to let her see what’s inside. To Coraline’s disappointment they only thing that is behind the door is brick, nothing secret at all. Her mother tells her it was probably walled up when the old house was made into apartments.
That night Coraline is awakened and follows a little mouse that leads to the secret door that is no longer blocked by brick. Coraline slips through the door and follows a tunnel that leads to another living room that looks exactly like her own. It also has people who look just like her parents except they have buttons where their eyes should be. Enamored with this strange new world beyond the secret door Coraline soon finds herself with the decision of leaving or staying with the people who look just like the people on the other side. When she decides that she wants to return to her world she soon finds the way locked with no hope of escape. This starts an amazing journey for Coraline that gets stranger and stranger.
This tale is a wonderful story although I might not recommend it for very young children. I however enjoyed it immensely. Here are a few of the mistakes I found.
Towards the end of the movie Coraline is serving lemonade in the garden. After serving Mr. Bobo, she has only one glass on her tray. When Wybie and his grandmother come to the garden she now has two glasses on her tray.
When Coraline falls asleep on the picture frame it is facing down but shortly after it is facing upwards.
When Coraline is eating dinner with the “other” parents it shows that Coraline has two glasses at the table, one empty and one full of water. When it shows her again the glass of water is half full, when the scene shows her a third time there is no glass of water at all.
These are the mistakes I found, but I would love to hear of the ones you found. You can post these on the Movie Mistakes Forum.
