Parents Guide for
Coraline (2009) More at IMDbPro »

-Two women with large breasts are performing on stage. One of them is wearing pasties, but it is in the context of "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.

- A man claims that he has writer's rash on his rear end. Nothing is said, he is cut off before he can say where he has it, and just points to it.

-There is quite a lot of suggestive humour throughout. Most kids under 11 won't get it.

- A parental figure expresses the desire to take out a child's eyeballs and replace them with buttons. The needle and thread are shown several times.

- A parental figure transforms into a grotesque and frightening figure who threatens a child.

- A parental figure has murdered three small children.

- A child is imprisoned in a dark place with three eerie ghosts.

- We see a boy who has had his mouth sewn with stitches so that he is permanently smiling.

- A cat kills two rats over the duration of the movie.

- We see a wall covered in real dead dogs stuffed with sawdust, but with angel clothing on.

- A cat rips the other mothers button eyes off.

- Terms such as: "crap" and "drunk" are used.

- One of the characters is twice being reffered to as a drunk.

The Other Mother can be frightening no matter what form she is in, due to the fact that she has buttons for eyes.

There are many jump out at you moments which are meant to scare you.

Smaller children may get uneasy when the Other world is turned into a scary demonic place.

The final fight scene is very intense. It includes Coraline falling into a giant spiderweb, hands getting amputated, and the extremely intense door chase scene in which a door chases Coraline back to the Other world.

The Other Mother screams in a very loud manner which could scare many younger children.