Netflix pick for 8/26/13 – ‘ParaNorman’

“ParaNorman” is a fun, horror-themed stop-motion animated film that is great for most of the family…at least those families that don’t mind family movies about the walking dead and witches’ curses, cause “ParaNorman” has both of these.

This movie is great fodder for right wing conservative weirdos to decree about how lefty Hollywood liberals are constantly pushing their agendas on the rest of the country blah blah blah. At the center of this whole movie is the simple concept of not judging a book by its cover, or even by its contents, at least not until you can come to a full and complete understanding of said contents, and they even throw in an openly gay character at one point just to drive the point home in a more real world way, since this movie is about a witch and zombies and a boy who can communicate with the dead and gets some intense visions of impending doom every now and then.

Also check out this awesome articleabout some of the technology behind the making of this movie, which includes some videos as well, definitely worth checking out if you are interested at all in film production in any way.

It”s hard to call this a straight out horror movie because it is not, it has a soft, warm gooey center that the story revolves around, when it’s all over it is nothing but a nice family movie with the added touch of using a few horror cliches and tropes and archetypes and using them well. “ParaNorman” is an enjoyable movie and definitely worth a watch, whether you got a family or not. At the very least, you can marvel at the 2-3 years worth of stop-motion production work that went into this thing.

Watch “ParaNorman” right here on the Netflix Instant.