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ParaNorman (2012) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-24 18:00:16
Edited:
2025-10-25 17:53:51
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2026-08
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This movie was not on my radar whatsoever. I was having a chat with my editor Eduardo earlier this month and I mentioned that I wanted to react to some animated movies soon (and had meant to back in August but ran out of time). He suggested this movie for a Halloween watch to put in between the horror releases on the channel. Perfect, that's what I'll do! Thank you Eduardo. 😊

I have so much respect for stop-motion animators. When I finished this reaction, I went on YouTube and watched a few videos of the team working on this movie. The amount of faces alone that were made to easily swap out the various facial expressions for each character was incredible. The time spent to move limbs ever so slightly for the smoothest end result possible. The incredible artwork done for all of the backgrounds in each scene. So incredible!

I am pretty sure Chicken Run is the only other stop-motion animation that I've seen. It was one of my favourites as a child.

Please enjoy this reaction and I'm looking forward to your comments! [Direct link here.]

✦ KL

P.S. The animated movies that I want to react to before we reach the end of the year... The only hints that you're getting is that one of them is 2D and older, and the other two are 3D and newer! 😊

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ParaNorman (2012) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

Comments

Nestor Custodio

There are a *very small* handful of Adventure Time episodes that were animated by a guest director or a sister studio, and one of these was a stop-motion production. They released a behind-the-scenes featurette of the show's animators visiting the studio space where the stop-motion work was being done, and the looks on the faces of the show's original creator and his staff when they saw what they'd poured all their hearts into for years brought to life in such a real way and so faithfully recreated is incredible. As magical as movie-making can be, there's something special about the stop-motion process that adds so much more wonder and whimsy to it all. 🥹

Tyler Foster

FTR, Fantastic Mr. Fox, the Wes Anderson movie I suggested for a Thanksgiving poll, that is also a stop-motion animated movie. If you like knowing a little bit of how the movie was made, one thing that might be fun to know before seeing the film (which has nothing to do with the story or anything, of course) is that they made the choice on Fantastic Mr. Fox to record the audio in settings that resembled the ones being used in the film. I don't think they were all there at once, but Fox is based on a Roald Dahl book, and they filmed at Dahl's old estate, and the actors, while they were just in their street clothes, would so something a little more akin to live-action acting, running around and stuff, while the sound guy followed them around with a boom mike.

Chris Thom

The process is so laborious and long, it must be truly wild to work on the whole thing and then see the finished product. The disconnect between their day to day and what it becomes later would be intense.

Tesh

Great reaction as always! i adore this movie, so thank you for giving me a reason to watch it again. im so glad you enjoyed it! and yes i agree the animation is genuinely amazing! its so phenomenal, even just on the animation alone, but mixed with the story/messaging and the music, its just such an amazing movie. that finale, the "confrontation" scene between Agi and Norm is one of my absolute favorite scenes in animation, its so beautiful both visually and in meaning, i love HOW norm "beat" her, it wasn't a fight, it was a conversation, and the music, its criminal the music in that scene wasn't on the soundtrack, luckily there are some rips in youtube but its not the same, a number of times ive gone back and just watched this scene, its just so amazing. anywho, thanks for the reaction and the reason to watch this again!