PG, 92 min.
Directors: Sam Fell, Chris
Butler
Writer: Chris Butler
Voices: Kodi Smit-McPhee,
Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plaase, Leslie
Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Hill, Jodelle Ferland, Tempestt
Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, John Goodman
I don’t think I gave this movie
enough credit when I wrote my theatrical review of it a little more than a year
ago. I was blown away by its production design, but I didn’t have as much to
say about the story. Although I liked it, I was wrong. This isn’t merely a good
movie; it’s darn near great. Now that I wasn’t so distracted by the beautiful
images I was seeing, I paid a little more attention to the storytelling craft.
This is a wonderful story and a wonderfully witty screenplay.
It strikes me as much like
the original “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” in the way it places witty
observation into so much of the dialogue in every scene of the movie. But while
“Cloudy” is like a pop candy dessert, “ParaNorman” has some pretty important
things to say about being a kid and the misconceptions people hold about other
people well into adulthood. What a joy it turns out being to see the zombies
presented as the victims. It’s about time zombies had a voice of advocacy in
Hollywood. And I love that the fat kid is really the coolest kid in school.
Neal is just a wonderful character and the type of person we should all strive
to be.
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