The (somewhat) new teaser trailer to Henry Selick’s Coraline begins with a command to put on your 3D glasses. This does you no good watching the thing in Flash (via Cineplex), so I’ve provided a special look at the trailer above (plus, it’s the only copy I could find on YouTube). It obviously appears to have been caught in a theater with a video camera, but I also think the bootlegger put his 3D glasses over the camera’s lens. I know, it’s difficult to tell, and I’m not even positive that would work, but to me it looks like some of the scenes have that extra depth. Of course, it could just be a 3D screen without the glasses. One shot seems especially blurry and comprised of a double image, which is kinda how a digital 3D image looks when you take off the glasses. Unfortunately, I’ve misplaced my own Real D frames and can’t test them out to see if they’d work with my computer screen (I’ll assume they don’t).
Okay, now that my head hurts a bit, let’s assess what we’ve seen (watch the Flash version if you don’t want eye and headaches). Well, there’s not much there, but it’s certainly enough for the Selick fans, especially those big enough to have helped the 3D rerelease of his The Nightmare Before Christmas make so much cash over the last couple Halloweens. I’ve never been all that into Selick’s work, as impressed with it as I may be, but I’ll see just about anything in digital 3D (I would have gone to the Hannah Montana movie if I wouldn’t have appeared to be a pervert) and I’m intrigued by a few shots that remind me a little of Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay.
Coraline won’t arrive in theaters until February 6, 2009. Hopefully my eyes will be back to their normal focusing abilities by then.
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