We wind up with a story not at all unlike Alice In Wonderland, a fairly simple fairy tale-esque narrative that imaginative kids or grownups alike should have no problem relating to. I still maintain that if/when they ever do another live-action Spawn movie by default he should do the voice no matter who wears the costume. Coraline enters the parallel universe again with a new 4K + Blu-ray Disc set from Shout Factory and Laika by way of a glorious SteelBook. The story is about a young girl named Coraline who moves with her family to a small town and discovers a parallel universe behind a secret door in their new house. Stop-motion animation makes for some of the best material to show off in the 4K resolution and this is one superb example of that.

I'm really usually a fan but when a filmmaker utilises it as an integral part of the process rather than as a post production afterthought (Gravity is another great example) it can really add something special.presentation is an example of perfection: the mesmerizing visuals have never looked this good on home media. When this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous, Coraline must use her resourcefulness, determination and bravery to save her family.

mix and adds some life to it, with shifting overheads when the mother is in spider mode, or adding a sense of directional agility throughout the soundstage. I watched Coraline back in 2010 when I got my Epson 1080p projector and remember being blown away by it. The story follows the titular young woman (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who moves up into a remote part of Oregon into an apartment with her mother (Teri Hatcher) and father (John Hodgeman). Rounding things out is a series of odds and ends, including photo galleries, completed deleted scenes, and storyboards.The eleven minute Voicing The Characters is, as you could probably guess, a collection of clips of the principal voice actors doing their thing while Creepy Coraline is a six minute segment with one of the animators that discusses the interesting bugs and critters created for the picture. Inside the new house, colors are more neutral, but once in an alternate reality, colors are just slightly more intense and frightening. Almost all of the original Blu-ray extras have been ported over except for the PIP (picture-in-picture) features. Able to travel back and forth through the door way, Coraline starts to spends more and more time in her new world but soon learns that it may not be as perfect as it seems. Their past collaboration on this very movie was wonderful, but somehow they managed to upgrade the video even more with HDR in 4K.

For the rest of the time Selick flies solo, and luckily so, as he fires of all amount of information somewhat like a Gatling gun – it comes thick and fast on everything about the production, story, design, meshing technical information with anecdotal stories – it's almost too much too quick. Starting off with plenty of whimsy and choral singing yet retaining an element of menace and gradually becoming more and more sinister as the movie progresses to its ultimate showdown. Selick has more to say than his compatriot here but this is never the less a good discussion that covers adapting the original novel for the screen, character design, post production work and of course scoring the film. Coraline herself is the contrast as she wears darker colors like purple and black that act nicely as a foreshadowing tool to the other universe.Inside Laika – Discovering The Characters Of Coraline is an eleven minute piece wherein the different people that worked on the feature discuss their work, what went into animating the feature, how the characters were brought to life by using stop motion animation, having to make the animation style work alongside the voice acting work, the importance of bringing emotion to the characters and more. Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate, better, version of her life on the other side. She doesn’t resist and goes right on through a tunnel and comes out in a polar opposite version of her new home. The caveat here is that while the alternate universe is quite fun and zany, there's a sinister and evil entity lurking in the shadows that causes Coraline to come to terms with her lot in life and make amends with her family. Lastly, those who owned the original 2009 Blu-ray that Universal Studios Home Entertainment released will remember that version also featured an optional old-school anaglyph 3-D presentation along with 4 pairs of 3D glasses.