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ParaNorman (2012) - Critic Reviews - Page 5 of 8

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 16 Aug 2012

Chances are most kids, and most adults, will find Paranorman perfectly horrible in the best possible way…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 16 Aug 2012

For a movie grounded in fear, ParaNorman stands out as a movie for audiences young and old that's truly fearless…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 16 Aug 2012

The originality of the script saves the experience, along with widescreen splendor, but there's a lot about ParaNorman that's unsettling, and…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 16 Aug 2012

Cool-but-creepy monster flick is too scary for little kids…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for Time Out Chicago (129) on 16 Aug 2012

What's truly marvelous about the stop-motion fantasia ParaNorman is the way it acknowledges adolescence as a daily horror show…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 16 Aug 2012

In ParaNorman, Butler, Fell and company have crafted a refreshingly enjoyable bit of family entertainment…

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By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 16 Aug 2012

From a visual standpoint, ParaNorman has set the bar for stop-action animation…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 16 Aug 2012

Good movie but a horror movie for children ought to be more fun. Kids also like creepy and missing is that nice dash of the willies they love so much…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 16 Aug 2012

The emotions [the film] raises are quite complex and mature and ParaNorman handles them in a refreshingly unironic fashion…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 16 Aug 2012

A clear and solidly entertaining effort from start to finish. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 16 Aug 2012

ParaNorman is never less than entertaining, but you'll have to follow it into a strange purgatory between two opposing genres…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 16 Aug 2012

Norman is the freak bullied and ostracized and otherwise degraded by the alive-and-well crowd…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 16 Aug 2012

ParaNorman is probably the year's most visually dazzling movie so far, and the stunning climax centering on an 11-year-old witch (Jodelle Ferland)…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Aug 2012

A colorfully macabre stop-motion animation comedy that embraces the sociopolitical allegories of George A…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Mania.com (396) on 16 Aug 2012

It celebrates the gothic outsider in familiar fashion, though it does so with a wisdom and gentleness that Burton seems to have lost…

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By Kimberly Gadette (432) for Doddle (184) on 16 Aug 2012

Norman's world is a visual and technical marvel, but the plot drags down in elongated chase sequences and a third act fizzle…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 16 Aug 2012

It's not warm and fuzzy, but for kids who comprehended Coraline and babysitters who savored The Corpse Bride, this stop-motion marvel from…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 15 Aug 2012

If ParaNorman were a recipe, it would be roughly three parts funny, two parts tender, one part scary and one part sad…

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By Jeffrey Lyles (696) for Lyles' Movie Files (591) on 15 Aug 2012

Easily the most ambitious and creative animated film this year…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 15 Aug 2012

Simply put, it is no less than the most confident, fully realized, and just plain imaginative stop-motion animated feature since 1993's holiday…

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