Yeah, HDM is much older than I was thinking, but it's also not really satirical, in fact I think it takes itself terribly seriously :P I mean, I love it, but. Coraline is a good example - I'd have to re-read The Phantom Tollbooth to really be sure, but I'm not sure if it's quite what I mean - it needs to be dark, but also a bit sort of... self-aware?

In re: sophistication, I don't mean sophisticated like the writng, I mean sophisticated in the sense that in some ways - especially the movie - depends on a knowledge of other texts. Like the movie has an additional subplot about the FBI, which is a total send-up - but it just wouldn't be funny if there wasn't the awareness of, like, cop shows.

Peter Pan, Pooh corner - um, probably not. :P