Good concept, poorly executed.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It's very basic and nowhere near as good as Coraline, but is still worth watching. The one thing that really stands out is having the witch be a little girl who was simply misunderstood and treated unfairly. She was an interesting "villain" with a satisfying resolution. This movie gets 73%.

I really enjoy animation and animated films (especially stop motion) because the artwork is out of this world, but in a lot of cases they fall short on the writing and original plot work. Unfortunately this is the case with ParaNorman.That being said, the environment, puppet work, and special effects are superb throughout this movie.Where the movie draws you in with quirks, family drama, and a misunderstood outcast protagonist, it strays too often into ludicrous comedy that breaks the tension. The main story, however, is fulfilling and makes this well worth the watch even though there are flaws, and clichés all the way through.

This is a bit of your stereo-typical animated movie whose main character is the typical geek/loner/loser who turns hero. Others that come to mind of the same style are How To Train Your Dragon and A Bug's Life.ParaNorman starts off pretty slow in all honesty with just a few funny moments, but it does actually get much funnier and better as it goes on. Even a couple of the characters that you want something bad to happen to, you end up liking at the end and actually turn out to be the funnier of the characters.I'd say this movie is aimed more towards the older kids purely because of scare content. The language is nothing that they haven't heard before from regular TV programming and some of the more "adult" jokes will just go right over the heads of the younger viewers, so parents don't have to worry about anything their kids aren't supposed to see/hear.This is a very decent, enjoyable family animated movie and is definitely worth a watch.

I really wanted to like this as I enjoy this type of animation.I feel like the trailers and marketing for this movie were very misleading. It wasn't at all what I was expecting. It didn't seem to be geared to either children or adults - it felt like it didn't know what sort of audience it wanted to target, and so it ended up missing the mark on all counts.It was very slow and tedious...there were some amusing bits here and there mixed with a whole lot of depressing :( Overall I couldn't wait for it to end.