Coraline 3D

Yesterday I saw Coraline in 3D and loved every second of it. It was the first 3D film I'd seen, and it certainly does not disappoint.

To make the experience even more enjoyable, I went to see the film in the middle of the day so my companion and I were the only two in the screening- I have decided having a cinema to yourself is the only way to see films from now on.

Directed by Henry Selick, (The Nightmare Before Christmas), based on a novella by Neil Gaiman Coraline tells the story of a little girl who discovers an alternate version of her new house, (along with button-eyed doppelgängers of her parents), behind a hidden door.

Coraline is funny, beautifully animated and scary. The last point is important, there is a brooding darkness over the film which makes this a proper children's movie- as Mark Kermode wrote in The Guardian last month:

This balance between light and dark is crucial to great family entertainment. Without terror there can be no wonder, something children often understand better than their elders.

Coraline will be joining Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away on the list of my favourite animated movies. Try to catch it in 3D before the impending squeaky clean, (and thoroughly devoid of any worth), "Jonas Brothers 3D Concert" knocks it out of the cinema.