I love this movie even though it is pretty much the same exact plot of Coraline. Coraline just fleshed out the ideas and dialogue a little more and this was actually a much more visually centered film. 5 stars for hallucinatory cityscapes with floating fish alone.
And just think, this movie got made because Brian Henson was able to talk Disney into giving a Muppet movie more production money, and then not actually making the Muppet movie. Since Dave McKean is the omnitalented supergenius that he is, this movie was made on a budget smaller than the budget for Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter costume.