Okay, anybody who knows me personally knows I am hypercritical of children's novels that are made into movies. Let's face it very few can hold a candle to their book counterpart. Now, I know that some artistic liberties must be taken to make the book translate to screen but often times it is these edits and liberties that ruin the spirit of the actual novel and the movie is just a bad replica like dollar store soda. All that being said there are some notable exceptions and Coraline at least to me happens to be one of them.
Coraline the novel just happens to be one of my favorite books and one that I recommended many times to kids that I believed could handle it. So when I heard they were making a movie I was to say the least disappointed. I immediately thought that Neil Gaiman had sold out and that Hollywood was about to ruin another one of my favorite characters. Then I heard that Henry Selick one of the creative minds behind the "Nightmare Before Christmas" was involved my initial skepticism turned into curiosity. I liked the "Nightmare Before Christmas" is it possible that I could end up enjoying this travesty? The answer is YES. I have to say that Coraline the movie though still no comparison to the original was actually good.
Even though I normally do not approve of movies making to many artistic liberties and Coraline had many. I have to hesitantly admidt that these liberites were probably for the best. What I mean to say is even though they changed specific scenes and characters the flavor of the novel was not lost. Coraline was still represented, I was still creeped out and most importantly I still was inspired.
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