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If you ask anyone that shops at Hot Topic or those whose knowledge of Disney characters stems from Kingdom Hearts, you get the mistaken actuality that Tim Burton was the genius behind The Nightmare Before Christmas.

And while Burton directed (and wrote and produced) the woefully mediocre Corpse Bride to refute those who said otherwise, anyone with a shred of credibility knows that Henry Selick was the actual artist that brought Burton’s “rough idea” (all three pages worth) to life.

So as if to end the debate once and for all, Henry Selick steps up with Coraline – a wonderful, haunting fairy tale that decisively states (without a shadow of a doubt) that he is indeed the king of stop-motion animation.

No one else need apply.

Not that Coraline is perfect, but it’s easily the best stop-motion feature since Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. And a welcome treat in a day and age where children’s films are often served totally sanitized and devoid of artistry.

Coraline, frightening at times and intense at others, is anything but.

So many extras that they ran out of space for bulletpoints.