ParaNorman is a 2012 American stop-motion animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (the latter's feature directorial debut), and writt by Butler.
Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kdrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces, and only the second to be shot in 3-D.
In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is giv the task of ding a 300-year-old witch's curse on his Massachusetts town.
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The idea of ParaNorman came from Butler, who thought making such a movie for kids could help express the challges kids face growing up, after realizing that zombie films oft contained a degree of social commtary. Production of the stop-motion animation feature took place at Laika's studio in Hillsboro, Oregon for three years, with the animating stage of production lasting about two years and beginning in late 2009. Instead of using traditional 3-D format cameras, the studio had sixty Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR cameras film the movie. Jon Brion composed the film's musical score.
The film was nominated for that year's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, but lost both to Pixar's Brave.
In the small fictional town of Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts, Norman Babcock is an 11-year-old boy who speaks with the dead, including his late grandmother and various ghosts in town. Almost no one believes him and he is isolated emotionally from his family while being looked down upon by his own peers around the school. Neil Downe, an overweight boy who is also bullied, finds in Norman a kindred spirit. After rehearsing a school play commemorating the town's execution of a witch three cturies ago, the boys are confronted by Norman's estranged and seemingly deranged great-uncle, Mr. Prderghast, who tells Norman that he soon must take up his regular ritual to protect the town. Soon after this counter, Mr. Prderghast dies of a heart attack.
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During the official performance of the school play, Norman has a nightmarish vision of the town's past in which he is pursued through the woods by townsfolk on a witch hunt, embarrassing himself and leading to a heated argumt with his estranged and paranoid father Perry, who later grounds him. His mother Sandra tells him that his father's manner is stern because he is afraid for him. The next day, Norman sees Prderghast's spirit who tells him that the ritual must be performed with a certain book before sundown that day; th making him swear to complete the task, Prderghast's spirit is set free and crosses over. Norman is at first reluctant to go because he is scared but his grandmother tells him it is all right to be scared as long as he does not let it change who he is. Norman sets off to retrieve the book from Prderghast's house (having to take it from his corpse).
He th goes to the graves of the five m and two wom who were cursed by the witch, but finds that the book is merely a series of fairy tales. Alvin, a school bully who always picks on Norman, arrives and prevts Norman from reading the story before sundown. Norman attempts to continue reading from the book, to no effect. A ghostly storm resembling the witch appears in the air, summoning the cursed dead to arise as zombies, who chase the boys along with Neil, Norman's 17-year-old sister Courtney, and Neil's older brother Mitch, down the hill and into town. Having realized that the witch was not buried in the graveyard, Norman contacts classmate Salma (who tells them to access the Town Hall's archives for the location of the witch's unmarked grave) for help. As the kids make their way to the Town Hall, the zombies are attacked by the citizry. During the riot, Norman and his companions break into the archives but cannot find the information they need. As the mob moves to attack Town Hall, the witch storm appears over the crowd. Norman climbs the Hall's tower to read the book, in a last-ditch effort to finish the ritual, but the witch strikes the book with lightning, hurling Norman from the tower and deep into the archives.
Unconscious, Norman has a dream where he learns that the witch was Agatha Aggie Prderghast, a little girl of his age and a distant relative, who was also a medium. Norman realizes that Aggie was wrongfully convicted by the town council wh they mistook her powers for witchcraft. After awaking, Norman counters the zombies and recognizes them as the town council who convicted Aggie. The zombies and their leader Judge Hopkins admit that they only wanted to speak with him to sure that he would take up the ritual, to minimize the damage of the mistake they made so long ago. Norman attempts to help the zombies slip away so they can guide him to Aggie's grave, but is cornered by the mob. Courtney, Mitch, Neil, and Alvin rally to Norman's side and confront the crowd, arguing that their rage, fear, and misunderstanding make them no differt from the cursed townsfolk from long ago. Although the mob realizes the error of their ways, the witch unleashes her powers to create greater havoc throughout the town.
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Judge Hopkins guides Norman's family to the grave in a forest. Before the grave is reached, Aggie's magical powers separate Norman from the others. Norman finds the grave and interacts with Aggie's vgeful ghost, determined to stop the cataclysmic tantrum she has be having over the years. Though she attempts to push him away, Norman holds his ground, telling her that he understands how she feels as an outcast, that her vgeance has only made her like the ones who wronged her, causing her to remember happier days. Having finally countered someone who understands her plight and by remembering her caring mother, Aggie is able to find a measure of peace and cross over to the afterlife. The storm dissipates, and she, the zombies and ev the Judge all fade away. The town cleans up and regards Norman as a hero.
In the d, Norman watches a horror film with his family and the ghost of his grandmother, who have grown to accept Norman for who he is.
The idea of the film came from Chris Butler, who, realizing that zombie films oft contained a degree of social commtary, thought making such a movie for kids could help express the challges kids face growing up.
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The film was in production for three years, with the animating stage of production lasting about two years and beginning in late 2009. Rather than using traditional 3-D format cameras, the studio had sixty Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR cameras film the movie.
ParaNorman is the first ever stop motion film to use full-color 3-D printers for replacemt animation. Laika's previous film Coraline had pioneered and popularized the use of black and white 3-D printers, which sped up puppet production considerably and allowed the team to make the large number of puppet faces required for the film.
Quite oft it’s the stop-motion movies that are more out there, co-director Fell told The New York Times. They're a little quirkier, they're a little harder to pin down.
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Bits of other music appear in the film, including the theme music from Hallowe, the Donovan song Season of the Witch (sung by the school play cast) and Fix Up, Look Sharp by British rapper Dizzee Rascal. Little Ghost, a White Stripes song from their 2005 album Get Behind Me Satan, plays at the d, over character cards idtifying the main cast. However, one track in the film, an updated version of Aggie Fights, was not included in the soundtrack.
A new edition from Shout! Factory under licse from Universal was released on Blu-ray on September 14, 2021, and later on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 13, 2022.
Review aggregator website Rott Tomatoes gives ParaNorman an approval rating of 89% based on 190 reviews, and an average score of 7.3/10. The website's critical conssus reads, Beautifully animated and solidly scripted, ParaNorman will tertain (and fright) older childr while providing surprisingly thoughtful fare for their parts.
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Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, which indicates gerally favorable reviews.
Justin Chang of Variety wrote in his review, Few movies so tak with death have felt so rudely alive as ParaNorman, the latest handcrafted marvel from the stop-motion artists at Laika.
Michael Rechtshaff of The Hollywood Reporter said, It has its tertaining momts, but this paranormal stop-motion animated comedy-chiller cries out for more activity.
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The film premiered in Mexico on August 3, 2012, oping in second place with box office receipts of $2.2 million, behind The Dark Knight Rises.
For its oping weekd in North America, the film placed third, with receipts of $14 million, behind The Expdables
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