My biggest question is who _wrote_ that? Cuz it wasn't Neil Gaiman. In the book they stick her to a wooden wheel and throw knives at her. There's acrobat stuff, the dogs give her chocolate but in the movie..? Some writer: Y'know what would make this *kids* movie better? Some writer: BOOBS Everyone else:
Was on a softball team with a girl named Coraline. Went by Cora. she never acknowledged the movie, nor did we bring it up around her, in fear she would go through PTSD.
I always wondered how Coraline would be able to stand living in that house anymore. Like, yeah, the Other Mother can’t get to her anymore, but I’d still be scared and paranoid just existing in that house after all that and I’d probably never sleep peacefully again. There’s no way homegirl doesn’t have some kind of lasting trauma.
@@crazycookie4645 that would be a good depressing fan book. Coraline has PTSD and her parents try to figure out why and maybe accidentally free the other mother trying to prove to her there’s nothing to be afraid of behind the door, or maybe they convinced her it was just a bad dream so she checks the door herself to be sure and gets sucked back in
When I was ten, I was reading Coraline and my mother, who had very long fingernails at the time, snuck up behind me and grabbed my neck. Otherwise, it was everything a ghost-obsessed weirdo kid like me could want. Also, I'd ask the Other Mother if I could have holographic buttons.
And also, she's a f*cking twelve year old. I think it's safe to give her a pass on this one. Just like it's safe to give Katara a pass for saying "the sky sure is beautiful tonight, too bad you can't see them Toph!"
I like how as Coraline gets into the other world, her expectations of her parents change. Her dad makes up a song for her at the dinner table, which would be the attention she wanted, but she’s only focused on how the food is better in the other world. Parents do need to remember not to direct their frustration at their children who are lonely or looking for something to do. Take a break from your task, see that your child has something to keep them busy, but do not ever make them feel guilty about talking to you through emotionally harmful misdirection of your anger/aggravation/etc; or else they'll grow up afraid to talk to you about anything serious. Coraline behind the scenes facts: Coraline had 28 identical puppets, the main one of which stood 9-3/4 inches tall. A total of 15,000 replacement faces were created for all the characters in the film, each one of which had to be hand-sanded and hand-painted. Coraline alone had over 6,300 face replacements!
My biggest flex is that I saw this movie constantly as a young child and didn't get traumatized. However, I was mildly uncomforable during the play scene....but everything was great(yea, I was that werid kid)
Fun fact: I have had something akin to a mango milkshake multiple times in my life. It’s a type of Indian beverage called a mango lasi (hope I’m spelling that correctly), and I believe it’s actually made with yogurt. It’s not frozen either, so I guess you could argue that it’s somewhere between a milkshake and a smoothie, but it’s SO GOOD.
Coraline's parents always gave me vibes of like- mom did not want kids, dad talked her into it assuming it'd be like babysitting his nieces and nephews without considering _this one won't go away at the end of the afternoon._
"Yeah same except for me it's just Coraline three times" I mean...as long as it's not Beetlejuice three times 😂. I've read the original book as a kid! In the movie, I feel like they don't focus on this point as much, but the main theme of the book was teaching kids about bravery. I remember reading the book as a kid and one of the most important stand out scenes was the dad teaching Coraline that it's okay to feel afraid but being brave means, you still do what needs to be done even in the face of fear. I feel like that was such a strong message that's important to teach kids. I still think about that scene even as an adult Love that John Linnell from They Might Be Giants is the singing voice of the Other Father. They Might Be Giants was supposed to do other songs for the soundtrack but due to creative differences (as in they thought the songs weren't scary enough), the Other Father's song was the only song they did that made it in. The fact that the same band that did the iconic Hot Dog! song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, as well as the Malcolm in the Middle and Higglytown Heroes theme songs ALSO helped work on Coraline...what a timeline and a small world we live in.
To be fair, I think it’s only rated PG. You’d specifically have to see the reasons WHY it isn’t rated G since that could be literally anything these days.
@@prageruwu69 oh, okay. That makes more sense. I don’t know what the rating system is generally like wherever you live, but here in the U.S., it’s rather strange as a result of being largely profit-driven (shocking, I know).
@@eeyorehaferbock7870yeah, i got a dvd collection of a tv series a while back and the different age ratings on the back depending on the country was buck wild. two were basically the same but then the other country's rating was twice the age as that.
I already had a big imagination as a kid so I started getting paranoid that my family was the OTHER family and the ending theme spooked me in the same kinda way the goosebumps opening gave me a complex as a strange kid with ocd having a breakdown
It's always been my favorite movie so I'm glad that I'm finding more content about it. Also it's a bit of a shame most people recognize it only as a "creepy kids movie that traumatized me when i was 2 months old" because everything about the movie is amazing and the creepiness is just a part of it all. And it wasn't made digitally, it was all made by human hands. If you want check out LAIKA, thats a small studio that made Coraline and they're REALLY underrated, I feel like everyone keeps saying Coraline is a Tim Burton movie idk why. I recommend supporting LAIKA they deserve better tbh
So apparently one time when me and my brother were little (like 5-8) my dad came into our room at night with buttons on his eyes and scared the living daylight out of us. I don’t remember seeing him do that, but i do very faintly remember crying my eyes out after that 😭
This was my favorite movie as a child. I would rewatch it countless times and i can remember most of the lines in this movie. And yes, my favorite scene is the first dinner Coraline ever had with her other mother and father. That chicken, gravy, and milkshake are all i can ask for, not to mention the cake
I'd ask for blue buttons 💙. This book and this movie are embedded in my mind as quintessential horror delights. The movie enchanted me and still does no matter how often I watch it. It is pure magic and whimsy and...wisdom. I feel I appreciate new things every time I watch it.
The last one, Spink and Forcible were based on two women Gaiman met. He wasn’t sure if they were a couple, sisters, friends, or mother and daughter, but they made an impact on him so much characters based on them show up in two of his stories. In addition to Spink and Forcible, Zelda and Chantal from Sandman were also based on these ladies. He did make the characters lesbians though. Zelda and Chantal explicitly, and Spink and Forcible being a couple was confirmed on his tumblr.
i was desensitised to creepy and gorey stuff as a child as i’d grown up on murder mystery/murder documentary shows and games like gears of war and gta, and out of all the creepy stuff i loved as a child, Coraline was one of my favourites. also, magenta/purple marble on one button, deep blue/turquoise marble on the other button
Thank you for the pictures of whatever other mother was. I will be sure to watch this at the witching hour tonight. This will certainly help with my fear of spiders. (joke)
4:27 Fun Fact: Neil Gaiman actually hesitate publish coralline because he thought it was to scary for kids so he let little girl reviews it first (i forget what her connection to Neil) she said she like the book and so they published it, later on the girl admit to Neil that she was actually scared of the book Also another fun fact: same goes for Lewis Carol was also hesitated to publish the sequel to alice in wonderland because of the jabblewalk so he let random mothers review the book they basically said they're fine with it
When Wybie (don’t think I spelt that right) said that him stocking Coraline was “not his idea”, maybe he means that his grandma put him up to it. She forbids Wybie from going to the Pink Palace, but maybe she also wanted him to keep an eye on Coraline from a safe distance. Since she never rents the space to families with kids, it would be only natural for her to be paranoid about what could happen. Idk, just a theory I came up with.
Pink, looked so good in the movie! Somehow it was the scene where she was running through the cherry blossom trees that tipped me over the edge as a kid. Left the theatre early in tears with my dad, my sister had to tell me it ended happily Years later, knowing the limbo theory, it still gives me a bit of existential dread
3:53 I'm still crying over the fact some people legit don't know Mango Milkshake ! 😭. Bruh WhereI live , that was the only milkshake that was affordable and actually enjoyable. What kind of milkshakes have y'all been.drinking.
I live where Brauhms is, so there’s a lot of different milkshakes to choose from. Mango, however, does seem like an interesting choice. But hey, I’ve had a birthday cake milkshake before, so I can’t judge plus it doesn’t sound half bad
I was reading the book for this like two weeks ago or something, and I had decided to watch the movie too on the same day. Well I watched it with some people who have never seen it before, so that was nice 😊 introducing some young and one old impressionable minds to this film.
FUN FACT!! there is actually a coraline ps2 game, its kind of rare since it sells for a bit though im not sure if im reffering to the ds game or the ps2 game selling for a bit but either way im pretty sure they're both fairly a little rare :P
Okay, but... 1. You would no longer need sleep, so time would be a lot longer to you. Around twice as long. 2. You would have no books. No phone. No form of entertainment. If the ghost children's implications were right, the other mother killed them the moment she sewed the button eyes. 3. You could not move on to the afterlife unless someone like Coraline freed you. 4. You would never see your family or friends again unless, again, someone like Coraline freed you. ...trust me. You wouldn't want that.
To answer the ‘Wasnt my idea’ question about that line, here’s the answer. *Drumroll plays…* It was the cats idea. The cat pops up right on screen while wybie says ‘Wasnt my idea’ and he meows. They were referring to the cat. The cat knew the other mother was after her and he made wybie stalk her to keep her supervised and safe, just in case the other mother gets to her. It’s why he was following her the whole movie, and at the end of the movie, the cat was hiding behind a tree or something like that watching her. It’s also why the cat is around whenever Wybie is stalking Coraline, it was his idea in the first place in order to keep her safe.
I imagine it was wyborns grandmother’s idea for him to “stalk” Caroline concerning she knew of the other world and wanted a way to make sure another kid wasn’t taken away
This movie traumatized me in a way that my big fat empathy couldn’t take watching other wybie and father just struggle like that. Like damn I love some good ol angst but it needs to have a happy ending to it wtf why did my two homeboys have to go like that Also blue button eyes to pay respects to my girl bea spells-a-lot
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Wybie saying "it wasn't my idea" and then the cat coming into the scene directly after was supposed to mean the cat got Wybie to follow Coraline
This movie scared me when I was younger but I was put at ease when I realized that Coraline was safe in the end. Then my friend said to me “Hey, what if Coraline didn’t actually escape?” She was telling me that if the other mother could create a whole other world who’s to say that she couldn’t have just made a new one that Coraline ‘escaped’ into so she wouldn’t actually be free. This freaked me out because remember at the end of the movie when the cat went through one of those portal things, I think he could only do that in the ‘other world’ 🫨
I think it was the cat’s idea to have Wybie stalk Coraline. And the movie never scared me. I’d read the book before seeing the movie so kind of knew what to expect, even with the changes they made for the movie
I haven't seen Coraline in years. I have just one memory about it. It was around the scene at the end with the other-mother's spider form, and I was so scared I ran out of the room and sat in the front room of the house I was in (I think it was my grandparents'). All the lights were off, so I was still not in a preferabble situation, but younger me would rather have sat there in pure darkness than go back in there to watch the rest of Coraline.
i havent watched this movie since i was little but one time a few months ago i had a nightmare about the other mother chasing me through a windows 98 screensaver and i havent stopped thinking about it since
When I was younger my grandmother dropped a DVD of Coraline off at our house, I read the jacket and refused to watch it because I figured it would be scary. However I did end up watching it a few years ago on a Halloween sleepover with my best friend. It was still creepy but since I was in high school it was much less scary than it probably would have been at a younger age.
