Parents guide

During the scene with the Other Spink and Other Forcible's show, there are cut outs of very muscular men rowing boats and the like, and one of them was shirtless wearing something around his waist, probably not pants, but absolutely nothing was shown.

At one point in the movie what appears to be an ample-sized button-eyed Forcible on a stage wearing only glitter shaped patches over her nipples and a thong, revealing enormous breasts (which are animated bouncing) and buttocks along with bare abdomen, legs and back, actually turns out to be a rather skinny woman dressed in both a full-body leotard, and an ample-woman costume. Similarly, what appears to be another ample woman on stage wearing a mermaid costume that reveals cleavage, bare abdomen, back and arms, is also a rather skinny woman dressed in a full-body leotard, wearing a costume. Coraline, in the audience, exclaims, "She's practically naked!" before the rest of us learn that neither woman is even nearly naked. This scene is mild and for laughs.

The Other Mother bites off a living chocolate beetle's head and eats it.

Coraline throws a cat at the other mother at one scene. The cat rips off the other mother's eyes shortly afterwards. Though these "eyes" happen to be buttons.

Coraline cuts her knee.

Other Wybie, who has had his mouth sewn with stitches by the Other Mother so that he is smiling forcibly (very painful looking), gets the stitches removed by Coraline. However, when he takes his glove off, his hand disintegrates into sawdust, implying that the Other Mother will harm him further. Coraline later sees his empty clothes hanging from a pole, implying that he was killed.

A cat kills two rats over the duration of the movie. One of them is decapitated off screen and his severed head is seen lying on the ground with dust pouring out of it.

We see a wall covered in taxidermied dogs wearing angel clothing. Later in the movie, the woman who owns these is seen dressing up a living dog in the same costume, saying that she is just preparing for the dog's inevitable death, as the dog is ill.

In one scene, the protagonist is briefly strangled. The mark is visible for the rest of the scene.

Other Mr. Bobinsky disintegrates into a plague of rats who proceed to attack Coraline by shooting cotton candy out of cannons. One of the rats causes the protagonist to trip and fall onto the balcony. This causes the balcony to suddenly collapse, throwing Coraline onto the ground at a tremendous force.

In the beginning a pair of needle-like hands are seen taking apart a doll. Though there is no gore or violence, some people may still find it unsettling.

3 uses of God.

The term "rat crap" is used.

In one scene, Coraline's mother tells Coraline that Mr. Bobinski is drunk. Coraline later tells her mother: "Mr. B is not drunk mum, he's just eccentric."

As Coraline collects ghost eyes, rumbling is heard on the moon. After collecting all three ghost eyes, the moon eclipses into a full button, and we hear a loud "BANG!". The entire world goes gray and fades, and Coraline and the cat make it inside, facing a final battle with the Beldam. She's completely cracked, creepy, and monstrous.

The start of the movie isn't intense but it is very gloomy and creepy, it shows the beldams sewing hands making a creepy doll of Coraline in a dark lit room and throwing it out of a window.

A scene were the other Wybie pulls Coraline from out the mirror played as a jump scare, she tries to resist and pull away, then pulls of the mask (looks like a chicken mask) revealing Wybie with a very freaky sewn-on smile, but turns out who is actually not evil and was actually helping her escape, still scary.

Coraline comes home, parents are stuck in a mirror in cold and write with their hands "HELP US", clearly terrified, Coraline smashes the mirror and cries, she later sees the doll except 2 faced with both her parents (creepy), she throws it angrily in a fire and it disintegrates, she makes pillows shaped as her parents faces pretending they are her parents (not disturbing but depressing)

Scenes that are scary and disturbing, some are loud, jumpscares, disturbing imagery, gloomy dark settings, creepy undertones, some violence, the artificial plastic world even when bright and happy looking still feels very fake and weird

The button eyes of the "Other" world are a prominent and creepy motif. Seemingly friendly characters appear with sewn buttons in place of their eyes, robbing them of humanity and instilling a chilling and uncanny appearance.

There are many scenes and images in "Coraline" that are likely to scare young children.

Parents should know because of strong horror themes, this is film is more for middle school kids.

Moderate/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.

The movie is very touching and scary.