Paranorman (Blu-ray + DVD) PG
It's all fun and games until someone raises the dead.
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ParaNorman (Blu-ra + DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 3 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 27, 2012
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kodi Smit-McPhee | |
Directed by | Sam Fell & Chris Butler | |
Screenwriting by | Chris Butler | |
Composition by | Jon Brion | |
Director of Photography: | Tristan Oliver | |
Voice: | Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Hill, Alex Borstein, Tempestt Bledsoe, Jodelle Ferland, Jack Blessing, David Cowgill, Bridget Hoffman, Alicia Lagano, Scott Menville, Ariel Winter, Jeremy Shada, Steve Alterman, Kirk Baily, Jacob Bertrand, Cam Clarke, Eddie Frierson, Rif Hutton & Edie Mirman |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] spooky, creature-infested campfire story laced with valuable lessons about teamwork, responsibility, courage and the celebration of our inner outcast.
Washington Post
PARANORMAN hits a confident, crowd-pleasing tone.
Sight and Sound
Rating: B --
The movie is full of surprises, not the least of which is what those surprises actually are.
Full Review
Assignment X
3 stars out of 4 -- [The filmmakers] lace the fun and fright with keen visual wit....There's magic in it.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 7/10 --
Regardless of its flaws, the film is a sweet, funny take on horror films that turns many of the tropes of the genre on its head.
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Fanboys of the Universe
Rating: 9/10 --
My favorite part about this movie aside from the animation is this message... [that] even if we feel justified in our anger if we allow hate to take over our lives then then we become what we hate.
Full Review
Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
[T]he project, a feat of stop-motion animation, is made with generous care by the same impressive LAIKA studio artists who conjured the gorgeous CORALINE. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Writer/director Chris Butler puts his experience working on CORALINE and TIM BURTON'S THE CORPSE BRIDE to good use in this charmingly morbid tale of an eccentric young hero facing supernatural forces that would make most grown-ups cower in fear. Eleven-year-old Norman Babcock (voice of Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young misfit with a remarkable gift: He sees dead people. Although Norman's clairvoyance allows him the unique opportunity to enjoy the company of his beloved grandmother (Elaine Stritch) long after she has ceased to be, it also drives his frustrated father Perry (Jeff Garlin) and popularity-obsessed sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick) up the wall at home and makes him the target of dim-witted bully Alvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) at school. His only friend is portly Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), who isn't exactly a beacon of coolness. When Norman's deceased uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman), a local pariah, warns the young boy that he must save their small town of Blithe Hollow from a witch's curse that has plagued the area for centuries, the young creature-feature addict isn't entirely sure how to respond -- that is, until the sky turns red, the clouds start to swirl, and the dead rise up from their graves. Now, as a terrified mob takes to the streets with torches in hand, it's up to Norman, Courtney, Alvin, Neil, and Neil's older brother Mitch (Casey Affleck) to put things right, even if it means confronting the 300-year-old curse that has haunted Blithe Hollow ever since the notorious witch hunts of the 18th century.