USA Today gives an early boost to the film version of Neil Gaiman’s CORALINE, set for release on February 6: “As seen in Henry Selick’s 3-D stop-motion fantasy Coraline, this blue-haired heroine’s adventures in a strange, unsettling parallel universe rival those experienced by Lewis Carroll’s goldilocked girl explorer…. In this era of digitized animated features, when paper and pencils are as scarce as non-talking animal sidekicks, it’s nice to know one of the genre’s premier purveyors is sticking to his old-fashioned aesthetic principles. Although Coraline has been filmed in 3-D, the surreal fantasy is primarily brought to life through Selick’s […]
