Stop animation is the style of the film Coraline. For those of you who are not familiar with stop animation let me explain. What they do is take a bunch of pictures of the move set and as if you were taking a hundred pictures of one person moving you would see the steps they took to make that movement. Basically the same thing with this film but they have to set the puppets in the position they want with the expression they want to get their final product.
Coraline voice of (Dakota Fanning) is a little girl from Michigan who moves to Oregon in to the pink palace (a large pink house) She doesn't like is automatically, of course what kid would be happy to move away from their home, lose all of their friends and family, just to go to a place where their parents did nothing but write all day about plants and feed u nasty food. Well what does a kid do when they move to a new place to live? EXPLORE! Coraline goes down a trail followed by a cat that scares her on the way to a water well. When looking for the water well a crazy person on a motorized bicycle rides straight toward her and scares the life out of her. She yells at him for scaring her and when they tell each other their names she makes fun of Wybie's (short for whyborn). He gets call home and leaves. Later he comes back and gives Coraline a doll that looks exactly like her. Something fishy is going on here if a random person handed me a doll that looked exactly like me I would freak also. She then gets bored and bugs her parents and they tell her to count all the doors and window in every room. So she does and when she visits the living room she finds a small door that you could only crawl into. It immediately catches her attention she goes to her mother and tells her, she promises she will not bug her any more if she finds the key to open the little door but nothing was behind it but a brick wall when she opened it so she was disappointed. That night Coraline didn't eat dinner, just went to bed but woke up to the sound of a jumping mouse that she follows to the little door and the mouse went into it! OHH my this is weird. When she opens the door its like a wondrous tunnel to an awesome new world. Coraline curious goes to 
the other side and finds its her house only something smelled really good. Teri Hatcher "Other mother" Going into the kitchen she finds that her mom is actually cooking dinner, the food is great her mom looks prettier than before and her dad is nicer and cooler. They eat and then go to bed and she wakes up in her room and everything is normal. Coraline tells her mom about the trip but that wouldn't be the last time she goes to the other world. She goes a second time eats, then goes into the back into a huge garden of flowers that shape to form the look of her face. That's not all though she goes upstairs with whybie and watches the incredible jumping mice do their stunts for Coraline. Again she goes to bed and wakes up in her own real bed. The next day she delivers smelly cheese to the Russian man upstairs and he tells Coraline that the mice say not to go to the other side anymore because it is dangerous. Like that would stop her. Bored she visits the old ladies they have a lot of dogs and even stuffed ones. They read her fortune and tell her that she is in danger and to be careful but they also tell her there is good in her life but she takes the danger warning to heart. That night again waken up by jumping mice she goes to the other side for a third time. This time her other mother made her clothing, she eats and visits the old ladies down stairs. Before going to visit the old ladies the black cat from the beginning tells her that the other mother is bad and that she doesn't like cats. Which is weird because cats don't talk but on the other side they do. Coraline does not believe it but she will soon learn that everything comes with a price. So on to the old ladies house,and while there they give her a performance in their old ugly bodies but then they unzip themselves and do a crazy stunt and swing Coraline with them. After she goes home and her other mother asks if she likes it in the other world. Well duh you have been giving her everything she has wanted of course she wants to. Accept when the other mother asked if she would trade her eyes for buttons to stay in the other world with her. Coraline fakes like she's tired so she could fall asleep and wake up in her other house but finds that she is trapped in her other mothers home. Other mother gets upset and transforms into an ugly tall mad other mother. Coraline is sent to timeout for acting up and is trapped inside a mirror with three spirits these spirits help her to strategies how to defeat the other mother. Whybie the hero that he is helps Coraline escape but when she gets back home her family is no where to be found, soon realized the other mother has them trapped with her. Coraline prepares and goes go back to the other world and beat the other mother at her own game by playing games. They make a pact that if Coraline finds the souls of the three children and finds her parents she goes free if not then she will put buttons in her eyes. With help of some tools from the real old ladies and help from the cat Coraline 
finds the spirits of the three spirits. The only challenge left was to find her parents but it was almost impossible but by stalling she finds that they are trapped in a snow globe right next to her. Quickly reacting throws the cat at other mothers face by doing that the cat scratches of her eyes and Coraline tries to escape. Other mother turns the floor into a spider web but Coraline climbs it squeezing her way into the little door breaking the other mothers hand of needles off her arm while shutting the door. Rushing back home Coraline sees her parents walking in and gives them a huge hug as if she hadn't seen them in ages. You probably could say she didn't know what she had until it was taken away from her. Although it seems over it was not she takes the key to the water well but while she is walking she has no idea that hand that was broken off was crawling to get the key from her. The real Whybie saves the day by crushing the hand with a enormous rock and dumbing the rock hand and key into the well. In the end Coraline sees that what she has at home with her mother and father is way better than trading her soul to be tricked in to having nothing but buttons for eyes. For me the movie was alright 1-10 I would rate it a 7 personally, because it was a creepy cartoon and it wasn't my style type of movie.