

We’re well into CS Lewis territory at this point, but once she’s through this door, things go off in an entirely new and ever so creepy direction. In the process, she finds a door that leads to a mysterious world of magic and wonder. Matters are made worse for Coraline by the fact her parents are too busy to really pay her any attention, and she entertains herself by exploring her new environment. Even though the resolution is high enough to play on a proper TV through iTunes, it’s still not much cheaper than a DVD copy, despite not coming with any packaging, and offering a reduced picture quality. That’s not good when it costs £10.99 to buy a download (no rental option, sadly). If you choose to play the film at the original aspect ratio, you get a letterbox effect, which while tolerable on a big TV, isn’t really going to cut it on a handheld, unless you like eye strain. Unfortunately, if want the image to fill the iPod’s screen, though, you have to zoom in, which means you lose anything at the edges.

Indeed, there’s no way the portable experience could ever compare with watching on a full-size screen, although you could argue that the small display allows you to take in more at once. Of course, part of the joy of such movies is the sheer ‘wow’ factor, and it’s certainly a concern for anyone watching on a tiny iPod screen that much of the visual pleasure will be lost in translation. However, stop-frame animations tend to do quite well (think Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit and so on), so Coraline finds itself in a pretty healthy market.
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These days, the animated movie sector is dominated by computer-generated features, with traditional hand-drawn cartoons struggling to get noticed.
