OK, I am a animator in training and a cartoonist..but I hope that doesn’t add bias to this review..so,great animation aside…I’ll admit I didn’t like Coraline the film when I first saw it..I had read the book and was a little upset at some of the changes in the story and the pacing,,but then I saw it again..minus 3-D and reflected more on it..the things left out from the book, or made just for the film, become creepier on reflection, (the fate of Other Wybie and even the unanswered things. Just exactly where did the Beldam come from? Is the cat really a normal cat,or something more? ) the pacing is slow, but on second viewing that enhances the mood..makes sense with the film’s theme of extremes. a slow,mundane life versus a dizzyingly jam-packed one. I remember lots of negative reviews of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and some for “James And The Giant Peach” when they came out..passage of time and sometimes taking the time to look at a movie again can not so much vindicate it,as give a new perspective on it (and I don’t mean 3-D)