[sylfi]

I was actually very much the same way. I initially thought that the movie was going to be horrible. Blue hair? 11 or 12 years old instead of 9? They're adding a random character? It was too weird for me. And Coraline is one of my very favorite books, so of course I was going to be critical.

Then it actually came out and I went to see it. I absolutely adored it. The animation was amazing, the adaptation was extremely faithful, it held a sense of vague creepiness throughout the entire movie, and it's become one of my favorite movies as well.

I'm still amazed that people still care enough to do stop-motion. The results always turn out great, but that's because thousands of man-hours are put in to make it happen. I still find it truly astonishing to think that Coraline took almost four years to make. I also find it astonishing that it managed to lose "Best Animated Feature" to Up, but that's just me. :\