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August 28, 2012 Arts & Events » Movies

Movie Review: "ParaNorman" 

Gorgeous visuals are mangled by a zombified story.

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Why is Norman so bummed? The titular middle-school antihero of the stop-motion animated feature "ParaNorman" (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives in an 11-year-old boy's paradise of creepy toys, spiky hair and daily adventure. His life is bugs, slime, slimy bugs, and,…

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