"Coraline" Enchants Both Adult and Child

The teaser blurb for Coraline (see the trailer attached to this post) says:

Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life and the people in it only much better. But when this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous, and her other parents (including her Other Mother voiced by Teri Hatcher) try to trap her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world and save her family.

Hollywood Chicago feels this is an early contender for Best Animated Film of 2009.

Based on the beloved book by Neil Gaiman, “Coraline” is a nearly perfect stop-motion animated adventure featuring excellent voice work by Teri Hatcher, Dakota Fanning, John Hodgman, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Keith David.

The San Francisco Chronicle loved the film (the reviewer's avatar is jumping out of his seat, a top rating).

What a shrewd achievement for writer-director Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas"), to have made a movie that everyone will acclaim as beautiful, when perhaps the most beautiful thing about it is the sheer ugliness of it all.

The Sandusky Register ask "How do you spell imagination? C-O-R-A-L-I-N-E."

The first must-see movie of 2009 has arrived.

"Coraline," a stop-motion animated feature full of monsters, netherworlds and imagination, hits theaters today.

Finally, the LA Times says:

The third dimension comes of age with "Coraline." The first contemporary film in which the 3-D experience feels intrinsic to the story instead of a Godforsaken gimmick, "Coraline" is a remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge.

Adult or child: see it.