the best Coraline reviews
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2023
- Were you traumatized by the concept of button eyes as a child thanks to the movie Coraline? Then come along for this journey of reading through some of the best/funniest short reviews of Coraline I could find.
All reviews shown are from the site Letterboxd. Some have been edited for length.
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"Our eyes will be on Coraline~" ⚫👄⚫ - Комедії
Guys nobody talks about the fact you can give yourself heterochromia with button eyes. Can't pick between blue and black? Get both!
You can actually get a black and blue eye in one eye!
squaish forest green and rosey pinkish watermelon eyes for me!
I want those mesh buttons and white, Calico!
And why stop at two! Sow a forehead button, and you've got yourself a third "eye"!
@@Kiwi_DeFruit now put buttons all over your face! But why stop at only the face? Put buttons all over your body! Be a nightmarish creature!
Imagine being the person tasked with animating Ms. Forcible’s stop motion jiggle physics. Someone was paid money for that.
My biggest question is who _wrote_ that? Cuz it wasn't Neil Gaiman. In the book they stick her to a wooden wheel and throw knives at her. There's acrobat stuff, the dogs give her chocolate but in the movie..?
Some writer: Y'know what would make this *kids* movie better?
Some writer: BOOBS
Everyone else:
They shoved a stick in her cleavage to move it for every frame btw. (Don't ask me how I know this)
didn't know they weren't sisters till after reading the book
@@lunarskys2645I can seriously imagine Beavis and Butt-Head saying that if they somehow ended up as writers, honestly.
@@Pinkywinkykinky I always got lesbian aunt vibes from them and was a little baffled to learn this
Was on a softball team with a girl named Coraline. Went by Cora. she never acknowledged the movie, nor did we bring it up around her, in fear she would go through PTSD.
her parents mustve known
@@cloverlovania
Or thought they'd name her after coral.
The implication was that the cat stalked coraline, and wybie just followed
Lmao
the masculine urge to just follow a random cat around.
@@ProfessionalHumanTrashI mean, I’d do it
@@ProfessionalHumanTrashim a woman and id do it
I thought that it might mean Wybie’s grandmother told him to keep an eye on Coraline considering she knows what went down in the Pink Palace
0:52 technically canon - Neil Gaiman was going to call her Caroline, misspelled it, and decided he liked it so he kept it
He actually told a valuable lesson to aspiring author to always hold onto their typos.
I always wondered how Coraline would be able to stand living in that house anymore. Like, yeah, the Other Mother can’t get to her anymore, but I’d still be scared and paranoid just existing in that house after all that and I’d probably never sleep peacefully again. There’s no way homegirl doesn’t have some kind of lasting trauma.
@@crazycookie4645 that would be a good depressing fan book. Coraline has PTSD and her parents try to figure out why and maybe accidentally free the other mother trying to prove to her there’s nothing to be afraid of behind the door, or maybe they convinced her it was just a bad dream so she checks the door herself to be sure and gets sucked back in
@@bluegirl278dude if nobody else will write it I WILL
I believe Wybie was literally named "Why born" so it wasn't even Coraline who insulted him, it was his parents.
man even his parents dissing him like that. what did he do to deserve that.
That explains why he lives with his grandma, not with his parents...
@@ProfessionalHumanTrash be born, I guess
His parents made the riddle, Coraline just answered.
And also, she's a f*cking twelve year old. I think it's safe to give her a pass on this one. Just like it's safe to give Katara a pass for saying "the sky sure is beautiful tonight, too bad you can't see them Toph!"
I like how as Coraline gets into the other world, her expectations of her parents change. Her dad makes up a song for her at the dinner table, which would be the attention she wanted, but she’s only focused on how the food is better in the other world. Parents do need to remember not to direct their frustration at their children who are lonely or looking for something to do. Take a break from your task, see that your child has something to keep them busy, but do not ever make them feel guilty about talking to you through emotionally harmful misdirection of your anger/aggravation/etc; or else they'll grow up afraid to talk to you about anything serious.
Coraline behind the scenes facts: Coraline had 28 identical puppets, the main one of which stood 9-3/4 inches tall. A total of 15,000 replacement faces were created for all the characters in the film, each one of which had to be hand-sanded and hand-painted. Coraline alone had over 6,300 face replacements!
Another behind-the-scenes fact: this was the first stop-motion film to be shot in 3D, and they invented a new kind of camera rig to do it.
When I was ten, I was reading Coraline and my mother, who had very long fingernails at the time, snuck up behind me and grabbed my neck. Otherwise, it was everything a ghost-obsessed weirdo kid like me could want. Also, I'd ask the Other Mother if I could have holographic buttons.
Omg YES! I want holographic buttons too!
I never thought of that but now
What about transparent glittery buttons :O
My biggest flex is that I saw this movie constantly as a young child and didn't get traumatized.
However, I was mildly uncomforable during the play scene....but everything was great(yea, I was that werid kid)
If you mean the opera scene, then that just makes you the same as the entire MPAA, really.
Same for me, but the one part that got me was the end when the room turned into a spiderweb and Coraline juuust barely escaped.
Same, I also had that "GASP the cartoon character just said a nAuGhTy word!" when Coraline said "Oh my God!"
I got scared and all, but I couldn't really get traumatized when I was so ENAMORED with the visuals. They were so dreamlike and beautiful.
Is the user who wrote that review saying Coraline is like a video-game aware that there is actually a Coraline video game
I love how the fandom collectively found out about that 3 years ago, despite the game existing for more than a decade at that point.
I can't speak for the Wii version, but the DS version is garbage
.... It was the cat's idea.
Wasn't that the implication? Or did i just make that up in my head?
No, because that was, word for word, my exact thought.
yeah, thats def what i would assume
and also the way it focuses on the cat immediately after he says that .. 100% implied
Yeah I'm pretty sure that was what they implied
6:16
That's what I was thinking, also
I loved this movie when i was like five. I later learned that people older than me were afraid of it
I watched it for the first time when I was around 11, I never goft scared. It was and still is my favorite movie ever.
Wybie exists just so Coraline doesn’t talk to herself for parts of the movie, so I heard
Yeah in the book it’s just her
Coraline's parents always gave me vibes of like- mom did not want kids, dad talked her into it assuming it'd be like babysitting his nieces and nephews without considering _this one won't go away at the end of the afternoon._
Oddly specific
"Yeah same except for me it's just Coraline three times" I mean...as long as it's not Beetlejuice three times 😂. I've read the original book as a kid! In the movie, I feel like they don't focus on this point as much, but the main theme of the book was teaching kids about bravery. I remember reading the book as a kid and one of the most important stand out scenes was the dad teaching Coraline that it's okay to feel afraid but being brave means, you still do what needs to be done even in the face of fear. I feel like that was such a strong message that's important to teach kids. I still think about that scene even as an adult
Love that John Linnell from They Might Be Giants is the singing voice of the Other Father. They Might Be Giants was supposed to do other songs for the soundtrack but due to creative differences (as in they thought the songs weren't scary enough), the Other Father's song was the only song they did that made it in. The fact that the same band that did the iconic Hot Dog! song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, as well as the Malcolm in the Middle and Higglytown Heroes theme songs ALSO helped work on Coraline...what a timeline and a small world we live in.
6:08 Dude your answer literally appears after he says it, it's the cat 💀
That comment has me cracking up. He takes up the whole screen and stares into the camera and everything 😭
Fun fact: I have had something akin to a mango milkshake multiple times in my life. It’s a type of Indian beverage called a mango lasi (hope I’m spelling that correctly), and I believe it’s actually made with yogurt. It’s not frozen either, so I guess you could argue that it’s somewhere between a milkshake and a smoothie, but it’s SO GOOD.
Honestly Coraline was so valid for ordering that, go to any Southeast/South Asian restaurant and you'll have mango milkshake on the menu.
@@juliawidmaier5334 yeah, that’s what I was referring to.
LEGIT WAS JUST THINKING ABT THIS
In Brazil mixing mango with milk is considered bad luck so I always thought that it was just symbolism
MANGO LASSI GANG
this movie traumatized my younger sister because i forgot to check the age rating
To be fair, I think it’s only rated PG. You’d specifically have to see the reasons WHY it isn’t rated G since that could be literally anything these days.
@@eeyorehaferbock7870in my country the age rating was 11 and she was 7 at the time
@@prageruwu69 oh, okay. That makes more sense. I don’t know what the rating system is generally like wherever you live, but here in the U.S., it’s rather strange as a result of being largely profit-driven (shocking, I know).
@@eeyorehaferbock7870yeah, i got a dvd collection of a tv series a while back and the different age ratings on the back depending on the country was buck wild. two were basically the same but then the other country's rating was twice the age as that.
6:18
Everything about this scene is a flashing neon arrow pointing to the cat. And this person still missed it.
6:12 “Whose idea was it then?” I always assumed it was The Cat’s since they immediately cut to them showing up after that line
one time i said coralines dad was hot to my friends
and every single one of them shamed me
You are valid for that, he seemed gentle and sweet, if a little loser-ish
Not my type but not shaming you for that, that’s valid
I was so miserable as a kid that I wrote a fanfic about myself going to the other world, knowing it was evil, and deciding to stay there anyway
....
Are you ok?
based
@@venussssssssssssss I'm ok now but lemme tell ya I was not ok then
The "blue hair and pronouns" one knocked the wind out of me
I already had a big imagination as a kid so I started getting paranoid that my family was the OTHER family and the ending theme spooked me in the same kinda way the goosebumps opening gave me a complex as a strange kid with ocd having a breakdown
Could you not see their eyes? Unleas your family has button eyes ,in which case they are the other family
@@birdmcturd1626. OCD can convince you to overlook those details sometimes.
3:38 Omg, it's Schaffrillas from the UA-cam channel Schaffrillas.
I just wrote an essay about this film at school, thank you for making this reward
5:54 im pretty sure it was implied with the cat jumping over and both of the kids looking at him that wybie meant the cat
I thought it was implied that it was the cat's idea to stalk Coraline 🤔
I was so scared as a child that I didn't rewatch this movie until I was in college
Braver than me - I still ain't rewatching it...
So apparently one time when me and my brother were little (like 5-8) my dad came into our room at night with buttons on his eyes and scared the living daylight out of us. I don’t remember seeing him do that, but i do very faintly remember crying my eyes out after that 😭
THAT'S SO MEAN
For the spooky season I really hope we get one of these for The Craft. The goth Mean Girls.
I finally watched it for the first time a couple days ago! Absolutely loved it 10/10 movie
@@theeveningcallsforfairies5246 Same! I watched it a few days ago and instantly fell in love. Sarah Bailey is my transition goals.
Coraline is my favorite movie, it actually jumpstarted my obsession with button eyes.
Maybe I should be worried about that
2:38 for those wondering, They Might be Giants wrote it :)
Thank you for the pictures of whatever other mother was. I will be sure to watch this at the witching hour tonight. This will certainly help with my fear of spiders. (joke)
You stay up watching movies at 3 AM?
@@eeyorehaferbock7870 occasionally.
I'd ask for blue buttons 💙. This book and this movie are embedded in my mind as quintessential horror delights. The movie enchanted me and still does no matter how often I watch it. It is pure magic and whimsy and...wisdom. I feel I appreciate new things every time I watch it.
The last one, Spink and Forcible were based on two women Gaiman met. He wasn’t sure if they were a couple, sisters, friends, or mother and daughter, but they made an impact on him so much characters based on them show up in two of his stories. In addition to Spink and Forcible, Zelda and Chantal from Sandman were also based on these ladies. He did make the characters lesbians though. Zelda and Chantal explicitly, and Spink and Forcible being a couple was confirmed on his tumblr.
When Wybie (don’t think I spelt that right) said that him stocking Coraline was “not his idea”, maybe he means that his grandma put him up to it. She forbids Wybie from going to the Pink Palace, but maybe she also wanted him to keep an eye on Coraline from a safe distance. Since she never rents the space to families with kids, it would be only natural for her to be paranoid about what could happen. Idk, just a theory I came up with.
It was the cat. They have the cat hop into the scene and everyone looks at him as a way of answering the question.
This was my favorite movie as a child. I would rewatch it countless times and i can remember most of the lines in this movie. And yes, my favorite scene is the first dinner Coraline ever had with her other mother and father. That chicken, gravy, and milkshake are all i can ask for, not to mention the cake
It's always been my favorite movie so I'm glad that I'm finding more content about it. Also it's a bit of a shame most people recognize it only as a "creepy kids movie that traumatized me when i was 2 months old" because everything about the movie is amazing and the creepiness is just a part of it all. And it wasn't made digitally, it was all made by human hands. If you want check out LAIKA, thats a small studio that made Coraline and they're REALLY underrated, I feel like everyone keeps saying Coraline is a Tim Burton movie idk why. I recommend supporting LAIKA they deserve better tbh
FUN FACT!! there is actually a coraline ps2 game, its kind of rare since it sells for a bit though im not sure if im reffering to the ds game or the ps2 game selling for a bit but either way im pretty sure they're both fairly a little rare :P
the review abt it being like a video game makes me want a video game in that kinda clunky old-ish 3d style
It was the fucking cat's idea for Wybie to keep an eye on Coraline that is literally the most heavily implied thing in the entirety of cinema 💀💀💀
3:53 I'm still crying over the fact some people legit don't know Mango Milkshake ! 😭. Bruh WhereI live , that was the only milkshake that was affordable and actually enjoyable. What kind of milkshakes have y'all been.drinking.
The only milkshakes ppl have here is ‘banana, strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, depression’
I live where Brauhms is, so there’s a lot of different milkshakes to choose from. Mango, however, does seem like an interesting choice. But hey, I’ve had a birthday cake milkshake before, so I can’t judge plus it doesn’t sound half bad
I've have a mango smoothie but I wish I had a milkshake that flavor, I love mango ice cream
when he says "wasn't my idea" it cuts to the cat, hinting that the cat nudged him to do so
We watched it in the 4th grade I was so scared but also I love the dad and the cat is cute
4:27 Fun Fact: Neil Gaiman actually hesitate publish coralline because he thought it was to scary for kids so he let little girl reviews it first (i forget what her connection to Neil) she said she like the book and so they published it, later on the girl admit to Neil that she was actually scared of the book
Also another fun fact: same goes for Lewis Carol was also hesitated to publish the sequel to alice in wonderland because of the jabblewalk so he let random mothers review the book they basically said they're fine with it
i was desensitised to creepy and gorey stuff as a child as i’d grown up on murder mystery/murder documentary shows and games like gears of war and gta, and out of all the creepy stuff i loved as a child, Coraline was one of my favourites.
also, magenta/purple marble on one button, deep blue/turquoise marble on the other button
To answer the ‘Wasnt my idea’ question about that line, here’s the answer.
*Drumroll plays…* It was the cats idea. The cat pops up right on screen while wybie says ‘Wasnt my idea’ and he meows. They were referring to the cat. The cat knew the other mother was after her and he made wybie stalk her to keep her supervised and safe, just in case the other mother gets to her. It’s why he was following her the whole movie, and at the end of the movie, the cat was hiding behind a tree or something like that watching her. It’s also why the cat is around whenever Wybie is stalking Coraline, it was his idea in the first place in order to keep her safe.
I want to watch this movie so badly, but I can't convince my parents to buy it on Amazon. 😭😭
the solution: not so legal websites
@@Regirocc I refuse to pirate movies
ITs on HBO MAX too!!
@@MariaGreenwoodArt Just pirate it’s literally fine.
ITS ON HBO!!!!❤❤❤❤
I think it was implied it was the cat's idea?
Y’all this would actually make a good horror game. Dead kids. Cool levels. Different bosses. And lore for theorists to talk about.
I think there is a game😭😭
When I was little, I loved this movie, but eventually wasn’t allowed to watch it because I kept saying “oh my God.” 💀
Best The Last Wish reviews, please!
You know about the “feels like a video game” review is funny to me because they actually made a licensed coraline game for the wii
They did?
I was reading the book for this like two weeks ago or something, and I had decided to watch the movie too on the same day. Well I watched it with some people who have never seen it before, so that was nice 😊 introducing some young and one old impressionable minds to this film.
the review at 4:36 is 100% right. I would work so well has a horror game.
in case anyone is confused abt the “wasn’t my idea” line, im pretty sure its the cat that wanted him to follow coraline
Pink, looked so good in the movie!
Somehow it was the scene where she was running through the cherry blossom trees that tipped me over the edge as a kid. Left the theatre early in tears with my dad, my sister had to tell me it ended happily
Years later, knowing the limbo theory, it still gives me a bit of existential dread
2:38 *YOU HAVE SUMMONED EVERY THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS FAN IN THE AREA, **_START RUNNING_*
im terrified of coraline as an ADULT
6:15 it was the cat’s idea, that’s what it implied when the cat jumped up
For that one perspn, Wybe was implying that it wasthe cat's idea
The dad in this movie is just Neil cicierega and y’all will never convince me otherwise
6:14 - Whose idea was it? Immediately after he says it, _they both look at the cat._ It was the cat's idea.
okay but having trauma from this movie as a kid is so real 😭
My partner used to sit down and watch coraline every single day when they home from school
5:54 i thought, because the cat showed up, it was implying that the cat took interest in coraline originally and wybie was curious
2:12 This took me out 🤣🤣
Honestly everyday the button option looks more and more appealing
Okay, but...
1. You would no longer need sleep, so time would be a lot longer to you. Around twice as long.
2. You would have no books. No phone. No form of entertainment. If the ghost children's implications were right, the other mother killed them the moment she sewed the button eyes.
3. You could not move on to the afterlife unless someone like Coraline freed you.
4. You would never see your family or friends again unless, again, someone like Coraline freed you.
...trust me. You wouldn't want that.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Wybie saying "it wasn't my idea" and then the cat coming into the scene directly after was supposed to mean the cat got Wybie to follow Coraline
Aden Robertson would love Coraline's PS2, PC & Xbox game
Coralline would make for a great point and click adventure game
Can you do more reviews of Rankin/Bass specials when it gets closer to Christmas (Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Jack Frost, et cetera)? Those specials are responsible for making me pansexual growing up.
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town is my favorite Christmas movie. The burgermeister used to scare little me and I refused to watch it, until I did one day and absolutely loved it. Probably because of Jessica's song.
yessss we need more comments about Snow Miser and Heat Miser
I imagine it was wyborns grandmother’s idea for him to “stalk” Caroline concerning she knew of the other world and wanted a way to make sure another kid wasn’t taken away
This movie traumatized me in a way that my big fat empathy couldn’t take watching other wybie and father just struggle like that. Like damn I love some good ol angst but it needs to have a happy ending to it wtf why did my two homeboys have to go like that
Also blue button eyes to pay respects to my girl bea spells-a-lot
2:45
Fun fact: They Might Be Giants did a score for this film that was ultimately tossed out except for the Other Father's song.
YES YES. THEY RELEASED THE SONG “careful what you pack”. WHICH WAS FOR THE MOVIE AND ITS SO GOOD EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR IT
Wdym "Who's idea was it?" The cat showed up right after he said it, it was very clearly the cat's idea. Also purple buttons, definitely
I saw this when it first came out in 3D and that opera scene with the bat dogs traumatized me. It became my 10/10 favorite movie.
Comfort movie? This movie scared me so bad as a kid
"button eyes are the worst"
*sad lalaloopsy noises*
Idk why but for some reason I thought you already had made a video about Coraline reviews
The whole idea of "Spink and Forcible are lesbians" isn't actually too far-fetched.
Neil Gaiman confirmed that they are a couple.
I want purple buttons! Or rainbow. Maybe silver? Holographic? So many options… ooh, maybe I can mix and match!
6:10 I think he's implying that it was the cat's idea? the cat can talk, right? and wybie is kinda tuned in to the other world, because he's the one who gave her the doll, right? maybe the cat either told him to follow her or just led him out there.
So charming yet so sincerely unsettling
5:52 I pray that she does not take your soul, dear friend 😀😀
6:11 He's talking about the cat, obviously xd
I’m pretty sure Coraline has contributed to my huge fear of bugs
This movie scared me when I was younger but I was put at ease when I realized that Coraline was safe in the end.
Then my friend said to me “Hey, what if Coraline didn’t actually escape?” She was telling me that if the other mother could create a whole other world who’s to say that she couldn’t have just made a new one that Coraline ‘escaped’ into so she wouldn’t actually be free. This freaked me out because remember at the end of the movie when the cat went through one of those portal things, I think he could only do that in the ‘other world’ 🫨
Coralines dad not only was possessed by John Linnel for the other father song but also looks suspiciously like him…. i’m starting a theory
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I remember being so amazed by this movie I didn’t even get scared once. And that’s a lot coming from me
Yay! You fulfilled my request!
I always heared "She's a guy she's a doll she's a powerline
When I was younger my grandmother dropped a DVD of Coraline off at our house, I read the jacket and refused to watch it because I figured it would be scary. However I did end up watching it a few years ago on a Halloween sleepover with my best friend. It was still creepy but since I was in high school it was much less scary than it probably would have been at a younger age.
After ‘wasn’t my idea’ they go tilt their head at the cat. It was the cats idea to stalk her
I would probably choose black or maybe two different colors :)
Am I the only one who still wonders why Wybie is a character when he isn’t in the book? I still love the movie though
I believe the reason was to give Coraline someone her age to talk to
@@rosykindbunny1313 A friend of mine said the same, it’s been a while since I saw the movie but wasn’t she like just mad at him the whole time? Cause if so that’s pretty weird
@@rosykindbunny1313 I don’t know if you care but I searched it up and apparently he’s there so Coraline can share her thoughts. In the book we can read all of that but in the movie it would not work if she only talks to herself, something like that :)
@@lucamagic That's actually a clever way to get her thoughts across
My dad saw this in theaters. I was born later that day
i havent watched this movie since i was little but one time a few months ago i had a nightmare about the other mother chasing me through a windows 98 screensaver and i havent stopped thinking about it since
Who knows why all my favorite youtubers are uploading coraline content after I recently watched the movie
I remember watching this movie in 2011 at school and liking the visuals.