Parents Guide for
ParaNorman (2012) More at IMDbPro »

5/10

A boy pauses his mother's exercise video to look at the instructor's butt.

Norman jokingly says he was watching "sex and violence" on TV to his parents.

Norman's teen sister ogles at Mitch since he is shirtless.

A boy comments that he would rather be at an adult video store than the town hall or something to that effect.

Alvin grabs Courtney's buttocks, and Courtney makes a comment. You don't see this.

A teenage girl wears tight pants with her buttocks sticking out.

There are random sexual references and suggestions throughout the whole movie from the first scene to the very last, all of which are mild but frequent.

A character turns downs the advances of another who is interested in him and mentions that he is in a relationship.

A father implies that his son is "fiddling with his Ouija and his orbs."

5/10

Blithe Hollow's zombified residents look a little worse for wear and suffer a number of physical humiliations. They're clearly rotting, and one drops an ear.

An extended gag involves Norman struggling to retrieve a book from his uncle's freshly dead corpse.

Others zombies lose arms or are shot through the guts during battles with the living.

We can see straight through one zombie's abdomen. And another loses his head, literally, when hit by a car. Their dead appendages are still quite active, naturally, and for all the body parts flying around, the film feels more silly than gory.

A zombie runs into a door and gets her teeth stuck.

A zombie's face seems to be sagging off his jawbone rather grotesquely.

Villagers assault zombies with all sorts of makeshift weapons and try to burn down city hall, nearly killing the living inhabitants inside.

A little girl is sentenced to be hanged by townspeople. Her spirit then returns each year to punish them for what they did.

A young female witch's powers are quite frightening and dangerous. She causes wooden thorns to spike from the ground, nearly impaling Norman.

3/10

One use of "jackass" and the word "pissing" is said about two times. One use of "Frickin'".

Name calling is uttered in many instances. (freak, weirdo etc.)

2/10

Norman's uncle has several vials of pills, apparently for a (previous) medical condition.

There is a joke where a character thinks another character is talking about steroids. A girl asks a boy if he has ever used deltoids (a kind of lifting weights) for his abs. He replies by saying that he's never used deltoids ever, and she can test him if she doesn't believe him.

5/10

A fair amount of scenes throughout the film which ,though played for laughs, can be disturbing to young viewers.

The climax of the film involving the witch can frighten younger children.

There is a scene in which a 10-year old girl is sentenced to death. Her execution is never depicted, but it is a disturbing concept.

Norman speaks to the spirit of the murdered girl asking her to stop punishing her killers. It may be frightening or disturbing for many viewers

TECE estimation: 20/50

(PSA: "Involvement of a homosexual" does not warrant a higher rating.)