Movie review: ‘ParaNorman’ (VIDEO)

Smart ‘ParaNorman’ has wickedly dark sense of humor

By JEFFREY WESTHOFF - sidetracks@nwherald.com

Created: Friday, August 17, 2012 5:30 a.m. CDT

Updated: Friday, August 17, 2012 11:25 a.m. CDT

Another example of the special magic only stop-motion animation can create, “ParaNorman” is a proper horror film for preadolescents. It is also hilarious.

Influenced more by Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” films than anything Walt Disney ever made, “ParaNorman” is filled with, as Count Floyd was fond of saying, scary stuff, kids. The ideal audience for this would be fourth- through six-graders. Anyone older should appreciate it, too, with its sharp writing and wicked humor. But anyone younger might be traumatized.

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