I took my only little girl, Caroline, and her friend Amanda to see the new stop-action animated movie, Coraline, yesterday. Coraline and her family have moved away from their old home- from Coraline's friends- to a big, old, kinda dilapidated and kinda creepy old tri-plex. The other residents of the tri-plex are strange, and she's not wild about the place's omnipresent black cat. Coraline is visited by a boy named Wybie, who brings her a button-eyed doll that he finds at his grandmother's house. The doll looks exactly like Coraline (except for the button-eyes, of course). Coraline's bored. Coraline misses her friends back home. Coraline doesn't really like her new digs. Coraline's preoccupied parents don't have time for her. Her mom tells her to explore the big old house. She does. She finds a door to another world with "other mother" and "other father", people that look just like her parents, but with buttons for eyes. They fawn on her. They cook her good meals. It looks too good to be true. It is too good to be true. Way back in 1939, Dorothy taught us "there's no place like home", whether it's Kansas or a dilapidated old tri-plex, but getting back was no cake-walk. Visually, the movie was a treat. Coraline was fun to watch. Caroline on Coraline? "I liked it". 'Nuff said.
Friend Amanda and Caroline (right).
I took my only little girl, Caroline, and her friend Amanda to see the new stop-action animated movie, Coraline, yesterday. Coraline and her family have moved away from their old home- from Coraline's friends- to a big, old, kinda dilapidated and kinda creepy old tri-plex. The other residents of the tri-plex are strange, and she's not wild about the place's omnipresent black cat. Coraline is visited by a boy named Wybie, who brings her a button-eyed doll that he finds at his grandmother's house. The doll looks exactly like Coraline (except for the button-eyes, of course). Coraline's bored. Coraline misses her friends back home. Coraline doesn't really like her new digs. Coraline's preoccupied parents don't have time for her. Her mom tells her to explore the big old house. She does. She finds a door to another world with "other mother" and "other father", people that look just like her parents, but with buttons for eyes. They fawn on her. They cook her good meals. It looks too good to be true. It is too good to be true. Way back in 1939, Dorothy taught us "there's no place like home", whether it's Kansas or a dilapidated old tri-plex, but getting back was no cake-walk. Visually, the movie was a treat. Coraline was fun to watch. Caroline on Coraline? "I liked it". 'Nuff said.
Friend Amanda and Caroline (right).
10 comments:
Your daughter is a beautiful girl!
Thankyou, Vickie.
(she's the one on the right, btw).
Yes, I see the family resemblance.
I may have to take the Ali-Cat to that one!
I bet she'd like it.
She is very beautiful. What is she holding?
OK, SuperDave and AndyMan. What's the Ali-Cat?
I always get a kick out of your reviews.
Thanks, Tam. Caroline's goofy (like her dad is sometimes); there's no telling what she's holding, but it is just something random and means nothing.
Ali-cat is Andy's lovely daughter (and, of course, my niece) Alison.
Thanks, Kate.
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