ParaNorman (Sam Fell & Chris Butler)

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WTF? We didn't even have an Upcoming Thread for this film? I thought you guys loved Coraline.

Saw it tonight and this was absolutely freaking fantastic. Started out as just a fun horror movie tribute (film opens with basically a stop-motion Lucio Fulci send-up with Dario Argento style cinematography, complete with Jon Brion's score emulating Goblin), but then it ended up being a pretty strong moral message about ignorance.

I hope it wins best animated picture over Brave next year.

[Watashi]

I want to see it.

I find it cool that we are getting TWO stop-motion animated films (ParaNorman and Frankenweenie) that hark back to classic horror films and both look genuinely really good.

[Bosco B Thug]

I want to see it.

I find it cool that we are getting TWO stop-motion animated films (ParaNorman and Frankenweenie) that hark back to classic horror films and both look genuinely really good.

Frankenweenie will have to get through-the-roof positive reviews for me to see it. The whole project seems very dull, and the trailer that begins like an entire portion of the film playing out seemed like very bad judgment to me.

ParaNorman's trailer, though... it'd been a while since I'd been so wowed by a trailer. Makes me almost surprised that the first word about it here isn't disappointed.

[Bosco B Thug]

Can't wait.

[Watashi]

Frankenweenie will have to get through-the-roof positive reviews for me to see it. The whole project seems very dull, and the trailer that begins like an entire portion of the film playing out seemed like very bad judgment to me.

Have you seen the latest trailer? It looks much better.

[Watashi]

Hotel Transylvania also comes out next month. Which promises to be the exact opposite of quality from these two.

[Bosco B Thug]

Have you seen the latest trailer? It looks much better.

Okay, that's much better. Sad I need big action and can't tolerate the sweet childhood-and-mortality/boy-and-his-dog story, but yeah, I really can't tolerate it. Passe.

Also, I think Hotel Transylvania looks pretty funny.

[Spinal]

Yes, I'm very much looking forward to this. Go Laika!

[NickGlass]

WTF? We didn't even have an Upcoming Thread for this film? I thought you guys loved Coraline.

Saw it tonight and this was absolutely freaking fantastic. Started out as just a fun horror movie tribute (film opens with basically a stop-motion Lucio Fulci send-up with Dario Argento style cinematography, complete with Jon Brion's score emulating Goblin), but then it ended up being a pretty strong moral message about ignorance.

I hope it wins best animated picture over Brave next year.

What?! Yes, I plan to see this, and knowing Jon Brion did the score helps a ton. I was in Lincoln Center yesterday and the small, window-display dioramas were very detailed and impressive, as well.

I like Caroline fine, for the record.

[Dukefrukem]

Lucio Fulci? Ughhhh

[eternity]

Hotel Transylvania also comes out next month. Which promises to be the exact opposite of quality from these two.

Genndy Tartakovsky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

[number8]

Here's my review.

[D_Davis]

Have you seen the latest trailer? It looks much better.

Wow! That looks great.

[Ivan Drago]

Genndy Tartakovsky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Exactly. I'm not dismissing Hotel Transylvania just yet.

EDIT: And Frankenweenie looks great too.

[Sven]

My sister-in-law just got a job at Laika. Sweet.

[Dillard]

3D or not 3D on this one in theaters? Should I see it one way or the other? Or rather should I fork over extra for 3D. Wow. Difficult to spew out the correct question.

[Winston*]

Weird. This doesn't come out here until January.

[eternity]

Holy shit. That is my review.

[Watashi]

Great movie.

When they reveal that [

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the jock was gay, there was dead silence in my theater. I live in a very conservative town, so it was really awkward in an auditorium full of families. Never thought I would see that in a "kids" movie.

]

[eternity]

Great movie.

When they reveal that [

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the jock was gay, there was dead silence in my theater. I live in a very conservative town, so it was really awkward in an auditorium full of families. Never thought I would see that in a "kids" movie.

]

Four people started clapping and there was a mix of uproarious laughter and audible disgust in the theater. So happy it was a sold out crowd. What an unexpected, perfect moment.

[ciaoelor]

3D or not 3D on this one in theaters? Should I see it one way or the other? Or rather should I fork over extra for 3D. Wow. Difficult to spew out the correct question.

Not worth seeing in 3D.

[Sxottlan]

This was very good. This is what I wanted Dark Shadows to be.

Don't know why it got an August release when the critics are all on vacation.

[EyesWideOpen]

Not worth seeing in 3D.

This answer works for any movie.

[Bosco B Thug]

Some ending spoilers...

This was a lot more uneven than I wanted it to be. Brilliant individual moments throughout, but the story is sort of an ungodly mess, with the social positivity of its message valiantly surviving the confusion of its story. Strong character writing fights an unfocused core of personal odyssey with logey supernatural adventure and hit-and-miss comedy, while an indelicate climax loudly insists on extraneous morality concerning "the victim becoming the bully" while the hero is tossed around violently for our satisfaction. Good, even very good, but this actually just makes Brave fare even better in memory.