Here’s the thing about ParaNorman: it’s not the family romp it claims to be. The ads push the child hero, and the kid-friendly animation, peppered with the expected amount of grown-up in-jokes.

From the makers of Coraline comes the story of Norman, a boy who must use his gift of seeing and speaking with the dead to save his town from a centuries-old curse about to come true. Caught in a wild ...

Ghosts, witches, zombies and bullies keep a misunderstood teenager busy in "ParaNorman," a stop-motion animated comedy that's more funny than scary. This 2012 film from the makers of 2009’s creepy ...

ParaNorman might well be one of those "kid flicks" that grown-ups enjoy more than the children who dragged them to see it at the multiplex. But once the story kicks in, and the pace begins to quicken, ...