Coraline

What a fantastic movie. We went to see Coraline last night and in was fabulous. It is a wonderful adaptation of Neil Gaimans' book. I am always a bit apprehensive about movies made about books that I love. Typically, the movie fails to live up to the writing and it is a sad shadow of what it could have been. This movie on the other hand stands by itself as a beautiful work. The few changes that were made, added to the story telling without taking anything away. There were also enough changes from the book, that you didn't find yourself knowing exactly what would happen next. The creative direction and production design was humbling to any designer, and it will be some time before it stops haunting me. 

We had spent the week reading Coraline aloud before we saw the movie. I wanted the girls to have there own images of the story in their minds before they saw it. Having so recently heard the story, everyone was very excited by the visuals, and Abigail was especially captured by it.