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Title: ParaNorman (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kodi Smit-McPhee | ... | Norman Babcock (voice) | |
| Tucker Albrizzi | ... | Neil (voice) | |
| Anna Kendrick | ... | Courtney Babcock (voice) | |
| Casey Affleck | ... | Mitch (voice) | |
| Christopher Mintz-Plasse | ... | Alvin (voice) | |
| Leslie Mann | ... | Sandra Babcock (voice) | |
| Jeff Garlin | ... | Perry Babcock (voice) | |
| Elaine Stritch | ... | Grandma (voice) | |
| Bernard Hill | ... | The Judge (voice) | |
| Jodelle Ferland | ... | Aggie (voice) | |
| Tempestt Bledsoe | ... | Sheriff Hooper (voice) | |
| Alex Borstein | ... | Mrs. Henscher (voice) | |
| John Goodman | ... | Mr. Prenderghast (voice) | |
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Hannah Noyes | ... | Salma (voice) |
| Jack Blessing | ... | Slob Guy / Civil War Ghost (voice) | |
In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago. Eventually, Norman decides to cooperate, but things don't go according to plan. Now, a magic storm of the witch threatens Blithe Hollow as the accursed dead rise. Together with unexpected new companions, Norman struggles to save his town, only to discover the horrific truth of the curse. With that insight, Norman must resolve the crisis for good as only he can. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
I recently watched again, and reviewed here, MONSTER HOUSE, which is, like PARANORMAN, an animated horror movie for kids (actually, both feature as main character a boy who has a fat-and-funny friend). I'm not sure if MONSTER HOUSE appeared in the great Fangoria magazine, but PARANORMAN did. I was already interested in watching it on the big screen when I found out the Fangoria coverage, which was just the plus. I was interested for the obvious reason: stop-motion material from the people responsible of CORALINE (not Henry Selick tough). This is clearly the sort-of little stop-motion film of year (and I said sort-of little since it had a pretty big publicity campaign here in Mexico City) while Tim Burton's upcoming FRANKENWEENIE is like the big and long-awaited one.
There is some good news. While we wait to found out if Burton finally does something great after almost 10 years, here we have a film that will give movie geeks really cool stuff. Needless to say, kids won't enjoy some of the elements that most likely you will, fellow reader. Well, you will if you're into very cool horror tributes, in the way Quentin Tarantino would be proud, and nice takes on witch-hunt and into zombies, of course. Talking about the zombies here, well, I recalled what Guillermo Del Toro's said about CRONOS; he said basically that the vampire from his film is like the saddest vampire ever. I won't say much, only that here we can think in the zombies as sad and confused human beings. The main character Norman is not the classic happy kid as well; you'll love him by just seeing his liking for horror – actually, not every day we have an animated movie that opens like something out of a Grindhouse. And there's good humor (and McLovin as a bully with stretched piercing – I watched the 2D Spanish dubbed version tough), so yes, it's worth watching!
*Watched it on 08 August, 2012