The movie has life in its veins and a good heart: the story becomes a delicate fairytale.

| Oct 31, 2022

Anyone who's robust enough to enjoy Roald Dahl will surely appreciate ParaNorman's playfully PG undead action.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2012

There's no meat on the bone of this skeleton. Witty and fast-paced, sure, but the film lacks substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2012

The main plot - about combating a witch's curse - is less fun than the gothic gags on the margins.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2012

It's an engaging entertainment, with a solidly constructed storyline.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2012

Tweens, rather than children, will savour its snarky bite, although like the shambling on-screen cadavers, the story needed a bit more meat on its bones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2012

Ghoulish? Yes. Funny? You bet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2012

Ingenious and wonderfully detailed, though better in its imaginative horror than its slightly too-broad comic knockabout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2012

The film avoids the pandering of many animated features, bringing an acerbic edge and a thrilling intelligence to its story.

| Aug 27, 2012

"ParaNorman" took a huge risk on a scarier concept, and it paid off enormously.

| Original Score: A | Aug 22, 2012

What's truly marvelous about the stop-motion fantasia ParaNorman is the way it acknowledges adolescence as a daily horror show.

| Aug 17, 2012

I admire its character and production design, which achieve the kind of look that sets stop-motion animation apart from CGI.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2012

"ParaNorman" is never less than entertaining, but you'll have to follow it into a strange purgatory between two opposing genres.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 17, 2012

If the story lacks the consistent psychological depth of Coraline, another tale of an outcast finding solace in a parallel world, amends are made during the lovely climax.

| Aug 17, 2012

Chances are most kids, and most adults, will find "Paranorman" perfectly horrible in the best possible way.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2012

Employs stop-motion animation to provide hand-crafted appeal to the clever and surprisingly scary story of a Massachusetts town whose witch-hunting past catches up with it on its 300th anniversary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 17, 2012

A colorfully macabre stop-motion animation comedy that embraces the sociopolitical allegories of George A. Romero's zombie pictures and reworks them into a feature-length episode of "Scooby-Doo."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2012

"ParaNorman" expertly balances scary and funny elements of the story, with a surprisingly heartwarming conclusion.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 16, 2012

The world of Blithe Hollow exists in real space. The residents have real bags under their eyes, real bellies at their belt buckles. Ugliness alternates with rapturous beauty ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2012

It may be the most fun you'll have with ghosts and zombies all year.

| Aug 16, 2012