‘Coraline 3D’ a true original

Director: Henry Selick

Cast (Voices): Dokota Fanning, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Teri Hatcher

A real charmer in which a young girl, taken to a new home by her otherwise engaged parents, discovers a secret door into another world where her real life is mirrored, only many times better.

In this new world, her parents have time for her and life is happy ... only nothing turns out to be quite what it seems. Her 'new' parents seem reluctant to let her return to the real world.

Selick brings us a story that is both enchanting and frightening, a dark yet magical tale very much after the fashion of Alice who also found an alternative world not quite what she expected.

The basic premise is to be careful what you wish for, and it's brought to us in an outstandingly original fashion.

Star Rating: 4/5