Antonia is still recovering from seeing Coraline, although I suspect she is playing it a bit for sympathy at this point!<\/p>\n
I quite liked this film, Mike didn’t, but she was curled up in her chair with her eyes closed before it was halfway through.\u00a0 A shame, because she had looked forward to seeing it.\u00a0 And this, mind you, is the child who sat through Pirates of the Carribean 1, 2, and 3 at a friend’s house without blenching.\u00a0 Coraline just pressed all her fear buttons.<\/p>\n
It might be that we bear an unfortunate resemblance to Coraline’s parents.\u00a0 I hope we are not so inattentive, but we are closely associated with computers.\u00a0 Then there’s the division of labour – Mike does the cooking, I do the cleaning, which is the same.\u00a0 And then, I suppose there is just the whole temptation of ‘better than life’ parents that many kids can maybe relate to and that turns sour in the film.\u00a0 Or the fear of a door in your own house with a horrid witch behind it.\u00a0 Whatever it was it genuinely, seriously upset her for a bit.\u00a0 And to think that some people I know stake their faith on animations as opposed to movies with human actors for not scaring children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Antonia is still recovering from seeing Coraline, although I suspect she is playing it a bit for sympathy at this point! I quite liked this film, Mike didn’t, but she was curled up in her chair with her eyes closed before it was halfway through.\u00a0 A shame, because she had looked forward to seeing it.\u00a0 … Continue reading Coraline review<\/span>