Ngl, When the cat said “i just can” made more sense than most movies trying to explain why some characters have obtained supernatural power, it also made me laugh so hard for no reason
I also want to say that in the book, he also loved Coraline so much, but the Beldam's controll was too and he still almost ended up killing her. (Not by a praying mantis tractor controlling his movements but by his hands)
Fun fact: Originally, the reason the mother's "I ❤ Mulch" cup moved was because there was a fully animated scene where she took a sip of it. In this scene, Coraline finds a spider in a flower she's messing with at the window, and she throws it back over her shoulder. It lands in the mother's cup, she doesn't notice and takes a sip of it, and then the spider crawls away after she sets it down. Some people think that this was the other mother controlling the spider to get Mel's DNA to mimic her appearance, but unfortunately this scene was removed.
@@LOLbitTheLollyFox im sorry........but how the hell does dats translate to that's in English? and why is the shortest version of That's an actual word in Dutch?
Fun fact in the book when her parents disappear she actually does call the cops. She told them her parents were taken by the other mother and the dispatcher was just like “look I know you want attention but just go ask ur mom for some hot chocolate no need to call us”
@Royal Twat Honestly though dispatchers in real life wouldn't do that at all. It's a good thing she didn't call the cops in the film cause they probably what have had her taken to a foster home or something. And then she'd have no way to get back to the house.
@Royal Twat In the book the Other door is a huge tall carved wooden door at the right corner at the end of the hall in the drawing room with the furniture they inherited from Coraline's dead grandmother. She was not allowed to play in the drawing room because of the furniture which was expensive but Coraline didn't care because she thought it was boring in there.
The Other-Father is one of the best hero characters in cinema history He was programmed to unconditionally love Coraline, as her real father (she felt) didn’t care for her. He constantly warns her of impending doom in any way he can, as he knows the fate of those who stay. His songs and conversations with Coraline were laden with warnings. You can even see him smile when she rejects the button eyes! Amazing (Side note, mango milkshakes are incredible! Try a mango lassi sometime too) Edit: i feel so bad for you poor saps whove never had mango ice cream blended with milk before
I think the point of taking their eyes was for their souls like have you ever heard the saying " the eyes are the window to the soul " I think that was the point of the Beldam sewing the buttons into the childrens eyes
@@ssshark_bait I know. It’s just that “and stealing their eyes” sounds better than “and covering up their metaphorical passage to the soul with buttons symbolizing how she is controlling them like a doll”
@@ssshark_bait no the reason why she did the button eyes is so they cant leave the clothes that she gave to coraline is like pre-button eyes since in the movie she couldnt leave after she put them on
The reason why everything is turning nightmarish at that point of the movie is because Coraline doesn’t believe in it anymore so everything is being transformed into the scary versions because she knows not to trust that world now
I always thought it was because the other mother was running out of energy trying to get her to stay. I remember the other father saying something like that. Maybe I'm wrong.
@@oliviakate122 I think it might be both. Coraline knows now that none of it is real, so there's no need to keep up the act, and you're right about what the Other Father says. "All will be well soon as Mother's refreshed. Her strength is our strength." Lol, it's so nerdy that I know this movie word for word. :')
Also, in the original book, she DID call the police, but they told her to get some hot chocolate and have her mom tuck her back into bed 💀 I’m pretty sure that could’ve been really hated in the movie
The reason Mr. Bobinsky is blue is because he was a Chernobyl liquidator. That's what the medal is for. Sure, that wouldn't have made his skin turn blue, but.. actual thought was put into the characters.
Fun fact, Coraline never left the beldams world the first time. She just thought she did because she went to sleep, but the beldam just made it appear that way. As time went on and Coraline was entering/exiting the door she was just falling deeper into a hole. So the whole time after the first night entering the beldams realm she was trapped inside the nightmare and she never knew it. One thing that points it out is that the ghost kids tell her after they entered the door they never saw their real parents again.
@@charliebuckets8863 it's confirmed in the book by the ghost children, they state "once i met the beldum, i never saw my real mom again." Even though she "left" through the door several times she never actually left the first night. It's all a game to the beldum but in the end she always wins. Edit: I do believe that this is a fan theory, though lots of things point to it being true
@@ezra_grey2018 I think the kids never saw their parents again bc they fell for the trap right away, they allowed the beldam to sew the buttons into their eyes during their first night, without fighting
@@ezra_grey2018 Because unlike Coraline, the ghost children fell for it immediately. It's just a theory, though it's definitely really fun to think about!
That character scared the living crap out of me in my childhood that it gave me nightmares. I still haven't watched this completely as I'm still not okay with him.
@@friskcarias7196 I watched the movie from HBO so I wasn't able to watch the first part of it. I was only able to watch the scene where Coraline was talking with the other Wybie and crept me out that I just decided not to finish it. I still actually haven't even watch the whole movie up until now
Fun fact: The book is way scarier. Here's an example: "How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she even have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."
This movie has many things in it that seem like mistakes but after research or just thinking it out for a while are actually EXTREMELY cool and smart plot points that explain EVERYTHING that makes the story confusing.
Fun fact: The reason Mr. Bobinski's (sorry for spelling) skin is blue, is that if you look reeeeeeally closely, he has a metal saying he helped out with something involving radiation, so that's why.
10:00 "Mrs. Jones proportions" are explained by the fact that in in the scene she's actually the Other Mother, who is Beldam in disguise, and Beldam is a spider, and spiders have big butts.
In answer to your question about why everything turns more nightmarish the longer Coraline is there: it is never outright stated, but I always assumed that her 'magic' only lasts so long, which is why she was so insistent that Coraline let her sew the buttons. She needs to WOW Coraline QUICKLY in order to get her to stay. She has to do it fast because her magic only lasts so long, which is why Coraline is drawn into the world EVERY NIGHT.
I agree! And I’ll add that after a certain point there wasn’t really a need to keep up the facade. Once Coraline knows this other world isn’t right and decides she wants her parents back why would the Bedlam bother keeping it looking pretty?
I would say it’s because her power source was slowly starting to stop. The Beldam most likely draws power from the love and happiness of children. When Coraline started to get suspicious, she had to get buttons on her eyes and FAST. Plus, her power was most likely already waning as she had used most of it to subdue the three dead children.
@@terrylap6132 In the book at least it was heavily implied that the other mother was feeding off of them and their memories/souls. Quoting it directly “That is why we could not leave here, when we died. She kept us, and fed on us, until now we’ve nothing left of ourselves, only snakeskins and spider husks.” (Page 52) Then on page 51, “ Names, names, names,” said another voice, all faraway and lost. The names are the first to go, after the breath has gone and the beating of our heart.” A later quote on the same page, “What happened to you?” Asked Coraline. “How did you come here?” “She left us here,” said one of the voices. “She stole our hearts, and she stole our souls, and she took our lives away, then she left us here and forgot about us in the dark” “ Then after the first quote on page 52 “She will take your life and all you are and all you care’st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She’ll take your joy. And one day you’ll awake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you’ll be, and a thing no more a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten” That’s just quotes from those two pages though, there’s other places it’s referenced but I’d have to skim through the book again.
yep!!! this is in the book, but; the longer coralline’s in the “other realm”, the less the other mother cares for her little games, her facades and tricks to lure coralline in, up until the point where she just snaps and starts h unting coraline down in some obscure game of cat and mouse. it’s both that, and the fact the other mother’s just,,, getting bored. the world unravels around coraline, until the complex is nothing but a few barren rooms, the door, and a featureless expanse of woods- described as looking as though a child had drawn them. terrifying shit.
Actually coraline walking around the "other" world just to end back at the house is explained right after you cut it off it's because the other mother only creates what is needed she only has that bit cause that's the only bit coraline lives on so she just ends up coming back (it's also smart on the other mothers part since now coraline can't get away) I personally think that the amount of thought that went into this part deserves a sin off
That has to be the funniest ending to a family movie I've ever seen. The cat guided, protected, and even saved her life and then Coraline chucks it at the monster, possibly sacrificing it as far as she knew at the time, and runs to freedom. "Eat cat! I'm out!"
Yeah as being someone who is severely allergic to cats and, well kinda can't stand them I always understood why she threw the cat. Ik there is an actual reason, Henry Selick explained it or something
@@zuneirahhuda1869 He was actually one of my favorite characters when I was little but he still creeped me out lol I'm a wuss and scared of everything XD
@Blister I try to cats love me for some reason, almost all of my friends have cats and almost all of my friends cats like me more than their owners. When cats are rubbing themselves all over me and purring, I tell them in a gentle voice that I don't like them and would prefer if they left me alone, yk so I'm not being rude. I eventually just learned to suck it up, my mom hates animals especially cats so any affection I get from them I enjoy even tho I'm allergic.
@Blister Ig another little thing about me is that my mom looks just like the other mother. Sooo it always made me super scared bc I thought that the Beldam was possibly real. Also my mom has a lot of the same personality traits as the Beldam, same hair, style, they sorta sound the same. It's really creepy because she doesn't even look like Coraline's actual mother she looks like the evil one lol. My mom is extremely loving and is, well, human so I've excluded all thoughts of her being the other mother. But a young Childs imagination would make me think otherwise. Oh and my friends are actually scared of my mom, they have been since we were kids sooo maybe she's the Beldam after all ;)
They actually put in a lot of detail in this movie that people are still figuring out till this day, I swear I learn something new about it every time it’s brought up
Did you know when coraline tried to wash her hands in the shower after killing bugs with her hands, she turns the nob and actually leaves bug guts on the nob. Really great attention to detail.
Thing that i found interesting in about Coraline, is that When the story first came out all the adults thought it was a horror story, while the kids saw it more like an adventure story.
showing young people don’t see the horrors of some scenarios as easily as someone who’s older, which is exactly what the Other Mother uses to lure unsuspecting children into her world.
My biggest sin with this movie is at the very end when the parents touch their drinking straws with their gloved hands that were clearly dirty from gardening. Since you didn’t sin that, I have to sin this video.
So nobody’s gonna talk about the sin worthy moment where her parents have snow on them and her parents are LOOKING at each other and yet they don’t believe Coraline when she says they’ve got snow on them.
Small detail: the cake that other mother give coraline has writing that says "welcome home" on it. If you look at the letter o she writes, its loopy. In graphology (the study of handwriting) a loopy o like that indicates deceit. Meaning coraline is welcome, but she is not home.
The Other Father mentions _Mother needs to freshen up_ after showing Coraline all her _wonders._ We're to asume the Other Mother is employing all of her power or whatever into making things appear inviting, so - once Coraline declines her proposal - bit by bit the Other World shows its true colors.
When i watched this movie, I was terrified and had nightmares.... but as soon as the fear went away, I realized I loved it. I think Coraline is how I got into horror movies.
@@Dommbuscus Poor writing? It's not like you can write any better 🙄. Also the person who commented wasn't speaking like it was a fact, it's an opinion. Did you even went to elementary? Plus, every movie has it's mistakes so it doesn't count in as an objection to the movies being flawless in some people's eyes.
@The Otaku Girl First, I could maybe write better, with enough time and patience. Second, it's in my opinion that writing can save animation, but it does not work vice versa. Third, in the very sentence where you question my intelligence, you use incorrect grammar. If you are going to insult me, at least make sure your sentence is correct. Finally, traditionally speaking, you are going in to see a movie for its story/writing, and if that is lacking, there is little reason to see it. The exception, of course, being films such as Fantasia whose purpose is to show a spectacle.
3:53 filthy water is accurate when you move into a house that wasnt lived in often. They have to let it run for a bit. Also, she wrote 12 bugs because she killed 4. The other father wears glasses to mimic her real father Some of the sins were also him pointing details out. Ex. 4:32 where he complements her
Lyrics for the curious: Making up a song about Coraline She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of mine She's as cute as a button In the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on Coraline When she comes around exploring Mom and I will never ever make it boring Our eyes will be on Coraline
I’m currently looking to buy a house and looking at the kitchen I thought “that’s nearly as run down a kitchen as I remember, that’s totally workable” and then it got sinned. House hunting has really lowered my standards. Also, as someone with a very basic pallet (especially as a kid) mango milkshakes are amazing, and were my favorite as a kid, so I’m feeling doubly called right now…
Tbh, "I just can" is one of the most-catlike sentence I will ever hear in my life. That's how you know Coraline is good, they make a sentient talking cat, and it says things only cats would say if they spoke.
I’m surprised he didn’t sin for the fact that Wybie’s grandma was letting people stay in a house where there was access to demon from another world. Or the fact that she didn’t run when she first saw the other mother who had buttons eyes. I would have run 🙄
So actually the grandma tried her best to stop parents with kids from renting the place. Coraline was hidden from her on purpose by the Beldam because she was starving and she didn’t know about her until too late
Basically what I learned from Coraline is that you need to accept your life, no matter how shitty, because it can always get worse. And my dad wonders why I keep going to my emotionally neglectful mom because I feel anxious when I don’t have a schedule to follow
It's funny because so many people think that he hates a lot of these movies but when you read the description there's a good amount that he says he liked it or that it was enjoyable.
@@theallmightyz4594 does not change the fact that most of the shit he says is still retarded, so that's not gonna save him from criticism of his criticism
13:35 I believe they’re actually getting less realistic/more nightmarish because without feeding, the Beldam is growing weak, therefore her creations and powers are faltering, straying from reality and more reliant on Coraline’s perception of her real life surroundings.
yes, it's because she now sees through the illusion and it breaks apart; she can no longer be gaslighted with a fake reality or targeted to exploit her vulnerability. She prevailed by speaking the truth and seeing it all around her, no matter how terrible, a living nightmare. Her values keep her safe and her friends, the wise cat and the courageous boy.
6:39 I believe he's blue because he was part of a nuclear clean up thing (hence his medal), but I do agree, I'd be freaked out too if I saw a giant blue man sneak up behind me.
Re. her making the rules so easy, The Beldam is implied to be a fae of some sort. In folklore such beings are bound by the oaths they make due to magical means, so if she makes a direct promise to coraline, she has to keep it
I would agree with you but near the end one of the ghosts says " even if you win she'll never let you go". The Beldam swore to let everyone go if Coraline won meaning she would not have stuck with the promise. Sure the ghost could be lying but why would they? If I missed something or you have evidence supporting your claim please let me know. I'm interested in hearing it. Sorry if this seems rude that is not my intention.
I disagree. I wish that when I was a child, someone stopped me from watching it. I have vivid nightmares, always did. When I was a child, I regularly detailed my very disturbing nightmares to my mother. An example: I had a nightmare where a skeleton drove up in a big red pickup truck, proceeded to shoot my father and sister in the head instantly killing them, turned my older brother into a skeleton, and kidnapped my older brother to take with him. This dream didn't have any blood, but if anything that just made it even eerier. Another dream involved an ax murderer breaking through my bedroom window and murdering everyone in the house with an ax, killing me last (this dream did have blood, and lots of it). I was less than 8 years old for both of those dreams. And when I watched Coraline at 10 years old, I had so many nightmares from it. Very detailed nightmares, where an Other Mother invaded my home and looked just like my real mother but with button eyes and poked at my face with a needle to sew buttons over my eyes. It was terrifying. Maybe save this movie for the teenagers and adults.
It still to this day boggles my mind that this is considered a children's film. If I had been allowed to watch this as a kid I would have had nightmares for years!
The beldam needs energy to keep the other world up and running and her disguise intact. This energy comes from the kids she eats. Since Wybie's grandmother has refused to rent to anyone with kids up till now the beldam was probably weak from starvation and running on what little strength she could muster. This would also explain why this entire thing only lasted a couple days. It's all she could manage. The real question should be, why did Wybie's grandmother suddenly change her mind?
@Aobha O' Keeffe I've seen that theory, and I totally agree. I guess part two to the question though would be why now? Both the grandmother's sister and that little boy looked younger than Wybie. Why didn't the grandmother start worrying about Wybie becoming the beldam's next victim earlier? I guess maybe it could be that Wybie was becoming a little too curious lately and that made the grandmother start seriously worrying that he'd find the doll on his own and that's why she rented to the Jones's. Maybe, Idk
* Fun fact:* Wybourne was supposedly named so because his nan was terrified that he would fall victim to the Beldam, like her sister did. If anything, “Wybourne” is in fact short for Coraline’s nickname “Why were you born”.
@@edra2005 Supposedly she was hoping that the Beldam would go after Coraline and be sated long enough for Wybie to grow up and no longer be a viable target. Supposedly she didn't rent out to families with children to keep them safe, but maybe she noticed the Beldam becoming desperate and decided she had to keep Wybie safe by making someone else a target. After all, Wybie was snooping around the Pink Palace, and he found the doll.
The writers said that Mr. Bobinsky is blue because he's always outside in a tank top and shorts in the cold weather but he wears a medal awarded to the Liquidators of the Chernobyl Disaster which many fans of the movie have taken as a nod to him having been exposed to the radiation enough that it made his skin blue.
Mr Bobinsky is blue because he was a member of the Chernobyl clean-up. The medal on his chest is from the clean-up operation, so the radiation turned his skin blue. It also explains his addiction to raw beets.
I was notorious for doing really stupid shit as a kid (ex. I kicked a trailer window trying to kill a fly and ended up breaking the family record for stiches) so if I told my mom some shit like that she would more than likely believe it lmao
no i don't think you get it, if she did there wouldn't be a movie. what im saying is that the villain has to be some amount of dumb or else the hero cant do anything about it.
@@somesmolbean6944 maybe there’s something preventing her? there’s nothing about it in the book, but maybe she can only eat the souls if they’re willing, so winning the challenge would mean it’s willing. plus, she loves challenges!
Really you’re not gonna sin the end when Coraline meets Wybie’s grandma “I’ve got so much to tell you” like how do you tell your friend’s grandma that her sister was eaten by a needle demon and her ghost was kept in the dark with those who suffered the same fate
I don't know why him being at Chernobyl would make him have a Russian accent. I know there were Russians there but most of them were from Ukraine. Because Chernobyl is in Ukraine.
@@830toAwesome well sorry i not culture often to know if that a Russian accent or not. But those medals on his chest are very similar to the ones given to Chernobyl victims.
The scariest thing about this movie is that as scary as it is, the book is WAY scarier. If they had made the movie 100% accurate it would've traumatized everyone for life.
@@SilverByakuya well, I have read the book and I refuse to read it again because it was rather terrifying so I have selectively chosen to forget details about it
The author talked about how interesting the feedback to the book was -- children thought it was a fascinating adventure (that had a goosebump moment here or there) but adults found it deeply unsettling. So it's very interesting to read Coraline at different stages of your life!
@@SilverByakuya in the movie, the other mother's world is very animated and bright to charm Coraline, but in the book everything about the other world feels off, eerie, and much more unsettling. The other mothers hair moves in the air, and she feels more aloof in the book as well. At least that was my impression!
Fun fact: the medal Mr. Bobinsky is wearing was given to the liquidators at Chernobyl. That could explain the blue skin and the eccentric personality. It is also winter and he is doing exercises outside in a tank top and shorts.
@@Gothicbeautiful i wasn't being rude by saying we know. majority of people knew this already and it is quite obvious if people pay attention. so don't talk to me about being rude when i only said a simple 'we know'. my comment had no aggression, rude words or any type of attack at the main comment.
The most relatable part of this movie is other characters getting Coraline's name wrong. With my first name being Camden, I've been mistakenly called Cameron sooooo many times.
Everyone assumes my first name has the more common spelling, and my last name is impossible for people to get right the first or second time over the phone with repeated spellings... I feel you
What's interesting is Gaiman wasn't sure Coraline should be a kid's book, so his editor read it to her daughters and asked if they were scared after the first hour. The girls said no, and they finished the book. So it was published as a children's book. Later on, after the movie was made, the youngest girl admitted to being terrified, but she knew if she admitted it then she couldn't hear how it ended.
Sooo true, even now my being adult my stomach just shrinks just by thinkig about it. I saw when I was like 10, btw biggest fun fact. At school we had computer and we played games but some games for this stupid bitch were to violent (it was some old plane game thats all) but that same bitch played us this movie. PS: just writing this and thinking back how I saw it Im feeling PTSD. I know Im like little bitch but I saw so many “scarier movies” but Caroline is something else.
@@firerealms13yk78 exactly, I was scared for a long time after watching this. It left a scar on my poor 5 yo soul, although it was so long ago I cant even remember it. Lets watch the video and remind myself what I should have forgotten...
@@DiloConHelio LOL, my sister and I have done that before - but it was after we watched this educational video about calling 911 when you're in trouble. To be fair, we didn't mean to do it and we probably shouldn't pushed on the buttons when we were faking. xDD
15:22 "Stalk-holm syndrome" is GENIUS anyway, nice analysis! Sometimes it seems that you sin stuff just to explain the movie, in order to create a coherent and understandable sequence of scenes; but I like it nonetheless :D
6:43 Never thought this day would come but I’m actually sinning cinemasins for not doing their research. I’d you look at the neighbor, you can see that he has a badge on his shirt. That badge was awarded to people who cleaned up nuclear sites, hence why he is blue.