I think the mice that warned Coraline away from the door and the mice that enticed her in were different mice. This is worth many rewatches, there is a lot of subtle details and foreshadowing in every scene. Like the fact that the Other Mother never eats at meals.
Yeah but if you look really closely at the mice taking them to the door I swear they had button eyes to, my eyes might be playing tricks on me but I swear I saw it
And that the other dad is obsessed with the food. Probably because they don’t eat when Coraline isn’t there since the other mother only spends energy on things she needs to impress Coraline.
The thing with the parents is the movie tells us a lot of things without stating them Them moving out to the pink palace where it's a shared building, maybe they lost their previous home Paying the delivery guy a 1 dollar tip, showing they have financial issues The mom's neck being covered and her mentioning an accident Them being overstressed by the publication of the book Even the meal seemed cheap which Coraline complained about And later the dad's dropped at a Gardening store probably to find an opportunity for their book Etc All that paint a pretty different picture, they seem neglectful but they're especially stressed out and in a dire situation After the book plan worked they're way more chill and you can see how they usually are with their daughter when gardening
Fun fact: Wybie’s an original character made for the movie. He was created so that Coraline wouldn’t have to talk to herself during some parts of the film.
Someone made a correlation that some of the color choices for the buttons were paint names that had something toxic in them at one point. (I don’t know if it’s fully true though but it was an interesting concept I ran across.)
All the knitwear, including Coraline's tiny gloves, were hand knitted by the absolutely incredible artist Althea Crome using thin sewing needles to knit with. As a knitter, i find the fingers of normal adult human sized gloves to be incredibly fiddly and too small to work comfortably. Althea made multiple sets of those gloves down to about 1 inch long.
I got to see a museum exhibit of the Laika movies and the Coraline section was amazing. A full version of the Pink Palace, several dolls and costumes (some hand knitted) and even the hands from the start of the movie which are almost human sized.
Interesting fact: This creature is named the beldam. Caroline never go back to her real home and parents. Once you saw the beldam, you are lost forever. That's why ending is strange, cat is disappearing like nothing.
I believe they only did the other father’s song. Neither John Flansburgh or John Linnell, the two head members of TMBG, voiced in Coraline. I believe the man you’re thinking of is John Hodgman. I do understand the mistake though, they sound very very similar LOL
To answer some things you brought up: - At the beginning, they don't tip the movers well not because they're being jerks, they can't afford to. If you pay attention, they are extremely tight on money (no food and when they do it's bad food and there's no meat; the orange gloves Coraline wants are waay too expensive, the mother is already getting her uniforms on sale, etc.) If you also pay attention the reason they're tight on money is because of a car accident that Coraline's mother brings up at the beginning and also implies that Coraline somehow caused this accident, or at at least she seems to blame her and is overt enough about it that Coraline knows this. This is the reason they're moving house in the first place to a rundown converted apartment in the middle of nowhere. You can assume then, that this accident and the ensuing medical bills have basically almost bankrupted them and as the parents are freelancers if they don't focus all their energy on this catalog they're doing and get it sold, the family could never financially recover from this. America for you. They're under immense stress, but they also don't explain any of that to Coraline. - The mother isn't wearing a turtleneck or a mask, she's wearing a neck brace the entire movie. She is still in physical pain from the car accident they had but she still has to work. So she's never in a good mood. - The mice that warned Coraline and the mice that led her there are not the same. The mice that warned her are from the real world, therefore they're real. The 'mice' that led her there as you saw were really rats from the Other World. - If you pay attention when Coraline is going back through the cobweb version of the tunnel there are dozens of old children's toys from the children before her who's soul ahem, I mean 'eyes' the Other Mother stole.
I recently saw the remastered version of Coraline in 3D in theaters recently. It was definitely worth the extra cost on the tickets, the 3D version was so good.
I saw some behind the scenes footage about the making of, and to get the 3D version they shot every frame twice, but with the camera moved slightly off to the side in the width of a character’s eyes. It’s amazing just how much work and dedication went into this film. I’m so happy Laika studios gets funded by Nike because their movies are super underrated for how good they are. I’m definitely going to watch Wildwood when it comes out in theaters.
One of my favorite movies ever. The parents have moved to be physically closer to a place they can get work (they create the garden catalogue and the dad goes in person to shop it around/turn it in) and where there is more affordable housing. On the way there they get into an accident and in america that costs $$$, and the mom had to deal with her injuries therefore making them lose a day or two so they're now behind schedule. They're working constantly with little money, trying to get things finished in time, so Coraline is on her own and the house isn't even set up properly (almost everything is still in boxes, only Coraline's room is somewhat set up) and they are unable to pay attention to Coraline at the moment. My mom was the same way, very busy working when we first moved and I had a lot of time to myself since it was the beginning of summer and I knew no one. Coraline has to entertain herself and find things to do every day but once her parents turn in the catalogue and know they will have money coming in, they lighten up and relax and can spend more time with Coraline. They're not bad parents, just stressed and busy.
They are not bad parents for being stressed and tight on money, but they *are* bad parents for not having open communication with their daughter. The mother also specifically implies some things about her daughter that are just not appropriate, like that Coraline helped cause the car accident (whether true or not, that's a very damaging thing to put on a child's psyche, that their whole abysmal life situation is the child's fault) and implying that she's a 'dingbat' simply because of the dream she had. She's also unnecessarily rude to her husband on more than one occasion, like telling him they'll like her chapters of the catalog and not his. So yeah the mom is just a jerk to say the least. But a lot of people miss that the film is modeling the recognized psychological cycle between the mom and the daughter, the cycle that implies that you one day wake up and you've kinda turned into your mom, whether for good or bad. Because the thing is Coraline is also very rude to certain people that she can think she can bully like Wybie and even the cat at first. She has an attitude, is sarcastic and is straight up mean a lot of the time and it's because she's lashing out at how her mother specifically is treating her. So did her mother's mother treat her the same way? Probably. Coraline seems pretty similar to how her own mother probably was growing up. If the mom doesn't change her behavior which is being modeled for her daughter, the movie makes it clear through the sub text that Coraline will go from being a mean, angry little girl to a mean, angry woman just like her mom, and the cycle continues. To be fair, it seems the film tries to show a little bit of character growth on the mother's part, which starts before they actually get the good news about the catalog when she realizes how angry Coraline is getting at her behavior and how distant it's starting to make her and promises she'll "make it up." Then again Coraline replies "that's what you always say" so we can only hope that the mother actually became a better mother. By the end both Coraline and her mother appear to have a better attitude, which implies hope that the cycle of verbal and emotional abuse/neglect will be broken.
@@lenanicole2837 😂 no. Coralline had such a narrow view, it was like trying to look through the holes of a button. She was impatient and unkind to not only her parents, but also Wybie and the cat. The beldam created an illusion where everything focused solely around Coraline’s desires. Once the illusion started to disappear, she realized that nothing was really what it seemed. She almost trapped herself in the lonely, empty, “small world” revolving around her. At the end of the movie, Coraline saw the world through a different lens. By accepting everyone as they were, she realized her friends and family all added a little entertainment and color to her once, drab world, if only she allowed herself to see it-
And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed-Ah! woe betide!- The latest dream I ever dreamt On the cold hill side. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried-‘La Belle Dame sans Merci Thee hath in thrall!’
Coraline is a great movie. I used to be scared of it when I was young, but after watching it years, it's actually pretty funny. The Beldam is a dark villain. It reminds me of La La Loopsy dolls I had 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣
The parents seem really awful for most of the movie, but it's the unreliable narrator of a child's perspective. After watching the movie many times, it's clear the parents are under ENORMOUS pressure and are stressed past their tolerance, and you have a bored kid who is upset about moving away from everything. Through that lens, a lot of the earlier unpleasantness is quite reasonable. We aren't seeing anyone at their best. And that's the seductive lie of the Beldam; nobody can have an idyllic life at all times, and you can't just run away when things hit bumps. Also, predatory people thrive on finding people in these rough times.
Love Coraline! When my step-siblings are a bit older I'm thinking of reading the book for them. Also, Indi, your outfit is really cool! I definitely see the Coraline inspiration, but it is also really good without that knowledge
6:38 i havent read the book so i'm not sure but i read a comment saying that's a callout to the fact his character was added to the movie and didnt exist in the book or something like that. Would need some fact checking on that one. 1:17:02 Yeah exactly
There is this theory at the ending of the movie that Coraline never left the Other World. In the garden scene, it looked like Coraline’s face, but the garden in the ending looked like the Beldam’s face
ANOTHER suggestion for a reaction is Sandman. I realize Gaiman has been sent to the corn field, but it's still an amazing work with a lot of people who aren't awful making an amazing show.
I think the mice that warned Coraline away from the door and the mice that enticed her in were different mice. This is worth many rewatches, there is a lot of subtle details and foreshadowing in every scene. Like the fact that the Other Mother never eats at meals.
The ones who lead her to the door were the other mothers sand filled rats i belive (the cat killed one of them)
Yeah but if you look really closely at the mice taking them to the door I swear they had button eyes to, my eyes might be playing tricks on me but I swear I saw it
@@mickhaiahlewis6853 I think they do in the movie but in the book they don't and they imply that they work for an older being than even the Beldam
And that the other dad is obsessed with the food. Probably because they don’t eat when Coraline isn’t there since the other mother only spends energy on things she needs to impress Coraline.
The thing with the parents is the movie tells us a lot of things without stating them
Them moving out to the pink palace where it's a shared building, maybe they lost their previous home
Paying the delivery guy a 1 dollar tip, showing they have financial issues
The mom's neck being covered and her mentioning an accident
Them being overstressed by the publication of the book
Even the meal seemed cheap which Coraline complained about
And later the dad's dropped at a Gardening store probably to find an opportunity for their book
Etc
All that paint a pretty different picture, they seem neglectful but they're especially stressed out and in a dire situation
After the book plan worked they're way more chill and you can see how they usually are with their daughter when gardening
1:08:00 There is a deleted scene where Coraline asks if Wybie's grandma is black to confirm if it's her 😂😂
Fun fact: Wybie’s an original character made for the movie. He was created so that Coraline wouldn’t have to talk to herself during some parts of the film.
Someone made a correlation that some of the color choices for the buttons were paint names that had something toxic in them at one point. (I don’t know if it’s fully true though but it was an interesting concept I ran across.)
That's so cool if it's true!
All the knitwear, including Coraline's tiny gloves, were hand knitted by the absolutely incredible artist Althea Crome using thin sewing needles to knit with. As a knitter, i find the fingers of normal adult human sized gloves to be incredibly fiddly and too small to work comfortably. Althea made multiple sets of those gloves down to about 1 inch long.
The acrobats are actually a gay married couple
And mr b is a chernobyl liquidator which is why he has the medal and is blue
I got to see a museum exhibit of the Laika movies and the Coraline section was amazing. A full version of the Pink Palace, several dolls and costumes (some hand knitted) and even the hands from the start of the movie which are almost human sized.
I saw that exhibit as well. I was surprised at how big the Coraline-face garden was. It was all very cool!
Woah that's awesome!
The voice of the cat is the inestimable Keith David. LOVE THAT GUY
(And just got to where Sputnik mentioned aaayyyy)
One thing that's neat on a rewatching is noticing how the Other Mother's shape slowly changes through the movie (until it changes super dramatically)
Interesting fact: This creature is named the beldam. Caroline never go back to her real home and parents. Once you saw the beldam, you are lost forever. That's why ending is strange, cat is disappearing like nothing.
The Other Father is voiced and sung by the lead singer of They Might Be Giants.
I believe they only did the other father’s song. Neither John Flansburgh or John Linnell, the two head members of TMBG, voiced in Coraline. I believe the man you’re thinking of is John Hodgman. I do understand the mistake though, they sound very very similar LOL
39:07 The squid’s got no rizz 😂
Bro that made me laugh so hard 😭 😂
To answer some things you brought up:
- At the beginning, they don't tip the movers well not because they're being jerks, they can't afford to. If you pay attention, they are extremely tight on money (no food and when they do it's bad food and there's no meat; the orange gloves Coraline wants are waay too expensive, the mother is already getting her uniforms on sale, etc.) If you also pay attention the reason they're tight on money is because of a car accident that Coraline's mother brings up at the beginning and also implies that Coraline somehow caused this accident, or at at least she seems to blame her and is overt enough about it that Coraline knows this.
This is the reason they're moving house in the first place to a rundown converted apartment in the middle of nowhere. You can assume then, that this accident and the ensuing medical bills have basically almost bankrupted them and as the parents are freelancers if they don't focus all their energy on this catalog they're doing and get it sold, the family could never financially recover from this. America for you. They're under immense stress, but they also don't explain any of that to Coraline.
- The mother isn't wearing a turtleneck or a mask, she's wearing a neck brace the entire movie. She is still in physical pain from the car accident they had but she still has to work. So she's never in a good mood.
- The mice that warned Coraline and the mice that led her there are not the same. The mice that warned her are from the real world, therefore they're real. The 'mice' that led her there as you saw were really rats from the Other World.
- If you pay attention when Coraline is going back through the cobweb version of the tunnel there are dozens of old children's toys from the children before her who's soul ahem, I mean 'eyes' the Other Mother stole.
35:38 i am no 100% sure, but i think they are not sisters, but a couple (neil gaiman said so or something) so... lets go lesbians!!! powercouple
Definitely not sisters. I think they're in a "Boston marriage."
"Miss Spink and Forcibel" Different surname and both NOT Mrs. Definitely not sisters
Yep, they are a romantic couple.
Marsha: Sure Jan
I recently saw the remastered version of Coraline in 3D in theaters recently. It was definitely worth the extra cost on the tickets, the 3D version was so good.
I saw some behind the scenes footage about the making of, and to get the 3D version they shot every frame twice, but with the camera moved slightly off to the side in the width of a character’s eyes. It’s amazing just how much work and dedication went into this film. I’m so happy Laika studios gets funded by Nike because their movies are super underrated for how good they are. I’m definitely going to watch Wildwood when it comes out in theaters.
One of my favorite movies ever. The parents have moved to be physically closer to a place they can get work (they create the garden catalogue and the dad goes in person to shop it around/turn it in) and where there is more affordable housing. On the way there they get into an accident and in america that costs $$$, and the mom had to deal with her injuries therefore making them lose a day or two so they're now behind schedule. They're working constantly with little money, trying to get things finished in time, so Coraline is on her own and the house isn't even set up properly (almost everything is still in boxes, only Coraline's room is somewhat set up) and they are unable to pay attention to Coraline at the moment.
My mom was the same way, very busy working when we first moved and I had a lot of time to myself since it was the beginning of summer and I knew no one. Coraline has to entertain herself and find things to do every day but once her parents turn in the catalogue and know they will have money coming in, they lighten up and relax and can spend more time with Coraline. They're not bad parents, just stressed and busy.
They are not bad parents for being stressed and tight on money, but they *are* bad parents for not having open communication with their daughter. The mother also specifically implies some things about her daughter that are just not appropriate, like that Coraline helped cause the car accident (whether true or not, that's a very damaging thing to put on a child's psyche, that their whole abysmal life situation is the child's fault) and implying that she's a 'dingbat' simply because of the dream she had. She's also unnecessarily rude to her husband on more than one occasion, like telling him they'll like her chapters of the catalog and not his. So yeah the mom is just a jerk to say the least. But a lot of people miss that the film is modeling the recognized psychological cycle between the mom and the daughter, the cycle that implies that you one day wake up and you've kinda turned into your mom, whether for good or bad. Because the thing is Coraline is also very rude to certain people that she can think she can bully like Wybie and even the cat at first. She has an attitude, is sarcastic and is straight up mean a lot of the time and it's because she's lashing out at how her mother specifically is treating her. So did her mother's mother treat her the same way?
Probably. Coraline seems pretty similar to how her own mother probably was growing up. If the mom doesn't change her behavior which is being modeled for her daughter, the movie makes it clear through the sub text that Coraline will go from being a mean, angry little girl to a mean, angry woman just like her mom, and the cycle continues.
To be fair, it seems the film tries to show a little bit of character growth on the mother's part, which starts before they actually get the good news about the catalog when she realizes how angry Coraline is getting at her behavior and how distant it's starting to make her and promises she'll "make it up."
Then again Coraline replies "that's what you always say" so we can only hope that the mother actually became a better mother. By the end both Coraline and her mother appear to have a better attitude, which implies hope that the cycle of verbal and emotional abuse/neglect will be broken.
@@lenanicole2837 😂 no. Coralline had such a narrow view, it was like trying to look through the holes of a button. She was impatient and unkind to not only her parents, but also Wybie and the cat. The beldam created an illusion where everything focused solely around Coraline’s desires. Once the illusion started to disappear, she realized that nothing was really what it seemed. She almost trapped herself in the lonely, empty, “small world” revolving around her.
At the end of the movie, Coraline saw the world through a different lens. By accepting everyone as they were, she realized her friends and family all added a little entertainment and color to her once, drab world, if only she allowed herself to see it-
I love it when Indi dresses up. It's giving "I'm Barbie and he's just Ken".
coraline is one of my favourite movies of all time so it's really cool seeing you guys react to it!
First time here , guy is pretty cool “Cora, shouldn’t change people the way they are “ ❤
By the way, I'm pretty sure those two ladies are a couple, not sisters
I haven't thought about the game since 2010... And now I've lost it 😭🤣 this might be my new favorite reaction channel. Yall have the best energy ❤
The Coraline fit Indi has is giviiiing I want to draw her!
And there she lullèd me asleep,
And there I dreamed-Ah! woe betide!-
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried-‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’
What is this from ? :o
@ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Belle_Dame_sans_Merci
@wtimmins ah thank you very much :)
Fun fact: the movie was originally going to be a musical, but the Other Dad song was the only song they kept after they changed it.
Coraline is a great movie. I used to be scared of it when I was young, but after watching it years, it's actually pretty funny. The Beldam is a dark villain. It reminds me of La La Loopsy dolls I had
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣
yeahh used to get paranoid that my family were fake changlings after it 😭
We LOVEEEE thirsting over daddy bobinksi
indi singing along to the coraline song was the best thing i've seen today
Back when movies dripped with PASSION
I saw this movie in theaters in 3D for it's anniversary. IT WAS AMAZING. So good in fact that I had to steal those 3d glasses as souvenir
The same gorgeous black cat also makes an appearance in The Nightmare before Christmas as Sally's cat ❤
The parents seem really awful for most of the movie, but it's the unreliable narrator of a child's perspective. After watching the movie many times, it's clear the parents are under ENORMOUS pressure and are stressed past their tolerance, and you have a bored kid who is upset about moving away from everything.
Through that lens, a lot of the earlier unpleasantness is quite reasonable. We aren't seeing anyone at their best.
And that's the seductive lie of the Beldam; nobody can have an idyllic life at all times, and you can't just run away when things hit bumps.
Also, predatory people thrive on finding people in these rough times.
Great reaction, you two are cozy and charming. Subbed! ^^
Love Coraline! When my step-siblings are a bit older I'm thinking of reading the book for them.
Also, Indi, your outfit is really cool! I definitely see the Coraline inspiration, but it is also really good without that knowledge
36:48 The Substanceee
Coraline is a Phenomenal movie
Oh my gosh! I’m glad you guys reacted to this movie! I love Coraline, it’s one of the movies I like to revisit around this time. 🤩
1:10:15 While the cat is the MVP Wybe got some votes, boy was bout that action!
6:38 i havent read the book so i'm not sure but i read a comment saying that's a callout to the fact his character was added to the movie and didnt exist in the book or something like that. Would need some fact checking on that one.
1:17:02 Yeah exactly
Very observant reaction. Its fun to see what different people focus on 😊
I am addicted to the color blue but your hair is amazing 🙈😆
yeah if you cant tell by the posters, Spink and Forcible were burlesque actresses back in their prime
There is this theory at the ending of the movie that Coraline never left the Other World. In the garden scene, it looked like Coraline’s face, but the garden in the ending looked like the Beldam’s face
Interesting theory 🤔
I love the "Oh no" reactions 😂
The mice look kind of like kangaroo mice.
I LITERALLY DRESSED UP AS CORALINE FOR HALLOWEEN WHAT
TWINNN 🫶🏾
I highly recommend Kubo and the Two Strings (same studio, also stop motion).
58:50 She hung Wybe…😨 Other Mother! WTF?? She gotta answer some questions 😅
My favorite movie I'm so glad you loved it!!
The Beldam is still alive
Because the cat disappeared at the end didn't it so they should make a second movie
I hope yall watch Paranorman! It’s underrated but iconic
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIESSSSSSSSSSSS
Did y’all notice that Coraline’s hair was brown before they moved
ANOTHER suggestion for a reaction is Sandman.
I realize Gaiman has been sent to the corn field, but it's still an amazing work with a lot of people who aren't awful making an amazing show.
LOVE CORALINE
Another great Halloween-ish movie from Laika is ParaNorman. Highly recommend!
jim hensons "Mirror Mask" is a good recommendation
i just finished bing watching yall reacting to steven universe and i was not expecting yall to watch my favorite movie
big jumpscare XD
I love this movie
This was my favorite movie when I was 4 lol
Re: magic stone:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_stone
wheres the shera reaction? 😭
It got copyright blocked 🥲 I'm working on getting it back up now.
First
Can you react to help Im a fish?