ParaNorman 4K 2012 Ultra HD 2160p

Norman is the only hope of a half-asleep town in the fight against hordes of evil spirits. His weapon is a super-mega-gift: the ability to communicate with ghosts. However, the dead are not the main danger, far worse are stupid adults with shotguns.

ParaNorman 4K Review
Eleven-year-old Norman (in addition to being extremely unpopular at school, where he is teased mercilessly) sees ghosts, which is why his father makes no secret of the fact that he would prefer to have an easier son. And if only bullies and ghosts bothered the boy, now and then, at the most inopportune moments, extremely strange visions descend on him. For example, in the middle of a school play, Norman feels as if he has found himself in the woods, where the trees themselves warn him of the terrible threat hanging over the city. "It's all a witch's curse," then explains to the boy his uncle and part-time town madman, who also knows how to talk to the dead. It is from him that Norman learns that he alone can stop the villain, who has decided to rise from the grave for the 300th anniversary of his own execution.

"Paranorman" claims to be a children's movie, but it's aiming for a much broader audience. Horror fans, fans of black comedies, fans of puppet animation, as well as connoisseurs of British humor and apologists for American morality, are all invited to a masquerade ball, where yesterday's "Coraline in Nightmareland" storyboarders are now acting out a play about how easy it really is to become a monster.

The linchpin at the center of the puppet "Paranorman..." is the classic plot about an outcast who first accepts himself and then finds himself accepted by his own family and comrades. However, this becoming takes place in the setting of a complexly composed horror story. Zombies rise from their graves, townspeople arm themselves with pitchforks, a little dead girl does not want to forgive her long-time abusers, and a little living boy must show great courage to finally reconcile everyone with each other. The authors of the animated film themselves admit that they were inspired not only by the horrors of Romero, but also the classic John Hughes movies, so in company with Norman's town is saved by several strata of the school: good-natured fat Neil, the local bully Alvin, as well as pomaded sister Norman and over-pumped brother Neil - in other words "Breakfast Club" almost in full.

Actually, and all the humor of the story sits between the two poles of Timberton's "Chernushatina" and high school puberty. In live-action, all sorts of "dancing" with corpses looked unsavory at best, and the jokes from the second category might have seemed too unpretentious - in the detailed puppet world, everything works in the best way. In general, it's the puppetry, so playful and tangible at the same time, that allows directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler to sneak a number of their film's most important humanistic ideas onto the screen painlessly.
Paranorman, or How to Tame a Zombie
For example, they make zombies out to be almost lovable victims of circumstance, and a mob ready to be lynched easily turns into a collection of real freaks, and there's a more than lively idea that whether you're a dead man, an angry ghost or just a neighboring bar keeper - the important thing is to remain human, no matter what the circumstances.