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  • ParaNorman (***½)

    One of the joys of ParaNorman comes with the unbridled creativity which bursts out of every frame...

    Author: Michael Ward
    August 17, 2012

    Masterfully made and beautifully constructed, ParaNorman is technically speaking, one extraordinary motion picture. It is next to impossible to not be drawn in to the painstakingly vivid and stunning world that the LAIKA Entertainment animators have designed once again for this follow up to their Oscar-nominated Coraline and Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride.

    As intricate and intense as elements of Coraline turned out to be, ParaNorman is by its very nature equally unsettling, intriguing, and surprisingly funny. Writer and co-director Chris Butler, making his feature-length film debut in those roles, has a pulse on every beat present within his film. His screenplay, while admittedly thin at times, is buoyed by the visual landscape his animators have assembled. The performances Butler draws out of his vocal ensemble, along with his keen sense of timing and almost intuitive delivery of jokes, one-liners, and chills and scares is engagingly manipulative.

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    Comic-Con Panel: ParaNorman

    More "geek" pride out of Comic-Con....

    July 13, 2012

    In an interesting bit of synergy, the ParaNorman panel was held on Friday the 13th to a packed Hall H. After playing the trailer moderator, Dave Karger from Entertainment Weekly introduced the panelists including Anna Kendrick, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler (who also wrote the movie) and Executive Producer Travis Knight. Karger opened up with a few questions to the cast and crew about the creation of the film and the process of voice acting. The filmmakers spoke about how they aimed to make a John Hughes/80s adventure/George A. Romero zombie film genre mash up. Anna Kendrick quipped that voice acting is very pure because you cannot worry about how you look and a grown up Kodi Smit-Mcphee remarked that halfway through filming his voice started to drop, providing him no way of proving that he voiced the character. Fell then introduced a behind the scenes feature that showed off the process of animation (in super speed) with preview clips of some of the big set pieces. More preview video analysis and Q&A hilarity after the jump!

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    Author: Michael Ward
    May 30, 2012

    Directed by: Chris Butler and Sam Fell
    Written by: Chris Butler.

    Cast (Voices of): Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Hannah Noyes.

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