Paranorman Movie Group Reaction 

"You know, you're gonna love my boyfriend, he's like a total chick flick knot" is personally one of the best lines in this movie

Mitch is the first openly gay character in an animated kids movie btw

The scariest part of the entire movie is that accusing a child of being a witch and them executing them is DEFINITELY something that happened during that time period. I love this movie and I'm glad to see more people reacting to it!

"What are you doing shooting at civilians? That is for the police to do!" That's the best joke in the movie.

one great detail in this movie is in the beginning of the movie the grandmother ghost says "I'm sure they just sit down and talk it through it'll be a different story" that's exactly what happened in this movie with revealing the truth and resolving the issue, what a great foreshadowing quote there

This movie was the best audience experience I've ever had. The laughter that erupted when the football jock had a boyfriend the entire time lasted 30 seconds and we all missed whatever dialogue happened in that time frame. It's an awesome movie. Not quite as incredible as Coraline or Kubo but totally deserves more attention its way.

The artistry that goes into these movies is insane, and it shows so hauntingly beautiful. Also, the "You would love my boyfriend" line is legendary.😂

That fact that these movies along with Coraline and Corpse Bride never traumatized me (i actually love these movies) as a kid is amazing

Paranorman is iconic for me. Its a brilliant and moving story. The art is breathtaking. You get really connected and the lessons are great! My best friend is LGBT+ and when we watched this together the scene at the end made him crack up and feel included, its one of the earliest times he saw something like that in main stream stuff. You have to appreciate the effort put into making this. I am happy you guys liked it so much!

one of my favorite details: when agatha rises from the ground in her true form, she comes up with her head slightly forward--like shes being pulled up by an invisible rope around her neck also the line "i dont want to go to sleep. and you cant make me" is still my favorite of the movie. gives me chills every time

30:50 One thing that explains a lot of what happened during the witch mania was that, if someone was convicted and condemned as a witch, *all their property would then be up for grabs.* Buildings, contents, land, the lot. Another thing that possibly explains a lot of the witch mania, at least in Europe, is that most of the population were suffering from chronic ergot poisoning from tainted crops, particularly rye, a staple of the poor - and ergot contains lysergic acid, a precursor chemical to LSD which can cause hallucinatory effects under some circumstances.

I know I'm not the only one to request this, but thank you for listening to our requests. To continue your mission though, after Spoopy month is over, is to watch Kubo & the two strings. I highly recommend it since y'all are loving Studio Laika's work.

I don't care how much I dislike someone, if a public bathroom explodes around them I'm inclined to believe them if they say something paranormal is happening

Thank you Boom, for saying the truth about witch hunts. The men hanging women back in the 1600s was a tactic in order to keep women subservient to men. Due to the Roman Catholic church’s fear mongering, people determined witchcraft was to blame when things went wrong, such as crop failures. Over 3 centuries, 40,000 people were executed for witchcraft, 75% being female. In Malleus Maleficarum (the witch hunting guide at the time), it was stated that women were more susceptible witchcraft due to their inability to control their passions, which became a common-held belief. Most victims were women who were considered unsuitable in a patriarchal society - usually outspoken women who challenged the status quo. So, even if a woman drowned, which proved they actually weren’t a witch, it hardly mattered to them, because they were still able to kill an unruly woman. Witch hunting was very much a war on women, but that part of history is either forgotten or disputed by what I fear to be insecure men.

This is one of my all time favorite movies. I love the idea of Norman being able to still see and talk to his grandma even though she passed away.

So the Salem trials actually had a system for pleading your innocence. If you pled innocence, you were given a chance to name the witch that was supposedly controlling you. If the plea was accepted, you were released and the person you'd pointed out would be tried instead. At one point, a dog was actually accused. If you didn't plead out, though, you were pressed. By which, I mean you were stripped naked, a board was placed on top of you and the board was slowly weighted with large rocks, day and night, without food or water, until you pled out.

The reveal of the story of how Aggie died and the conversation between her and Norman will always make me cry😢😢😢

This is my favorite Laika movie. I just feel it executes its themes the best, and feels quite mature while doing so. The final joke with the guy and the police woman yelling about who’s allowed to shoot ppl are 2 of my favorite jokes ever

A movie that I definitely recommend you guys react to is “Wendell and Wild”. It’s another stop motion movie directed by Henry Selick (the same guy who directed “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Coraline”), and stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

Oh my god!!! You should all watch the stop motion Pinocchio Movie!!! Its Amazing!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely one of my favorite films ever. I love it on every level. It's so well written. It's so well acted. It's so well animated! The reveal of Agatha still gives me chills. Fantastic reaction. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

This movie is really fun it deserves more attention. I really like the ending cause that poor girl can finally rest

paranorman is my favourite laika movie

I noticed one critical flaw in the subtitles that I need everyone to see. THEY PUT (Friday the 13th Ringtone) when it's HALLOWEEN'S RINGTONE! BRUH! They even used the same shot but with a hockey mask like Jason. The audacity lol

This movie had such a shocking and amazing twist.

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid, I loved creepy stop motion movies so much.

Some of my favorite notes: -The very first scene visually represents Normans life atm; isolated and only with ghosts, then the very end is ghost-grandma *and* the living family, it’s showing he found his comfort in both realms. -Agatha’s story probably wasn’t too far off from how at least half of histories witch trials went, *young* children were considered grown ups at the time, if you got enough people to lie about the same thing the authorities wouldn’t question it. I bet at least 1/4 of all deaths by witch trials were young girls being called grown and framed for something they didn’t do, bad circumstances leading to thinking they’re either stealing, casting “spells” (probably just doing math or reading), flirting with married men (probably jealous women who couldn’t do anything about their husbands being creepy so they went the other way to stop it) and so much more. Poor babies.

the Laika Studios youtube channel has a lot of behind-the-scenes videos for their movies, including Coraline and ParaNorman. They show everything from how the small clothes are fashioned, to the real-life scale of the figures, their detailed sets and some of their most complicated moving figures, I know in particular there's at least one Coraline one that shows a clip of how they store some of their face pieces, since you seemed particularly interested in that (and there were countless ones even back then). Laika films just have a very special place in my heart; It's really nice to take a look at their making every once in a while and it really kindles a huge appreciation for the hard work of stop motion.

"What are you doing firing at civilians? That is for the police to do" I forgot this movie was based

I really hope you guys will check out Boxtrolls too, it's by the same studio as Coraline and ParaNorman and without spoiling anything from the movie itself, if you guys liked the little stop motion ending bit from ParaNorman you're gonna love the one they made for Boxtrolls, it's my favorite visual stop motion meta joke ever

I remember seeing this in theaters and that final ‘fight’ with the witch had my jaw dropped the whole time

While I prefer Coraline overall, Paranorman never fails to make me cry. No matter the ending, what happened to Agatha is so tragic - and believable.

HELL YEAHHHHH AN ALL TIME CLASSIC

I love Paranorman but I've never seen anyone do a reaction to it! Perfect for October! Y'all should also watch Kubo and the Two Strings if you've not all seen it before too for some truly astounding stop motion.

Paranorman is definitely my favorite Laika film. Norman's story and the reveal and subsequent confrontation of Agatha never fail to make me super emotional

I would love if they did a Hocus Pocus reaction! I watch that movie every Halloween! 🎃🎃

Now that I look at it, Norman and Neil remind me of DJ and Chowder from Monster House.

I’m 21 so this movie is literally part of my childhood, I already had this movie at a high standard, but I hadn’t seen it in a while and this reaction just reminded me of how freaking amazing it is

Finally! This a good movie! This movie scared me as a kid. The uncle and even Norman's premonitions.

I’m so happy that you guys reacted to this movie because I’ve been recommending this movie for you guys to watch for awhile now!! Also, the movie is indeed a stop-motion movie!!

17:28 Okay why does the subtitles say "Friday the 13th ring tone" when the music playing is clearly the "Halloween Michael Myers theme".

Agatha's story is one of the stories in film that genuinely makes me the saddest, and it was done so wonderfully

This movie is AWESOME!!! I tapped instantly when I saw the notification.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE! One of my favorite holiday movies!!

This and monster house are always halloween staples for me. My two favorite halloween/creepy movies. It's just not the same without them

Just heard the sad news that Bernard Hill passed away. He voiced the Judge in this movie. RIP.

My actual favorite animated halloween movie. Stop motion for the win

Such a great film I don’t see much people talk about it

Laika is really good about releasing behind the scenes content. So all your questions about their process can be answered in those🥰

This is my fav recent Halloween movie!! It does an amazing job of being a lil scary, very spooky, and super funny! I feel like you can tell that the people who made this loved their work!

Love his movie! A classic for sure. So glad you guys finally got around to watching it!

People say Buck Cluck was a negligent Dad when confronted by Chicken Little’s cries for help, but Perry basically said he wished he had a different son which is much more depressing than anything Buck did.

Hell yes!!!!!!! Other great stop-motion movies are Boxtrolls, 9 (Yes the number 9 with Elijah Wood), Kubo and the 2 Strings, and Frankenweenie!!!

Some movies I really want you guys to watch are from Cartton Saloon; they've made Song of the Sea, WolfWalkers, & Secret of the Kells. All really great 2d animated movies based of scottish/english lore!

My local art museum did a Laika Studio exhibit and they had one wall covered in the 3D printed character faces so you could go and look at them all. The level of minute detail these artist are able to execute is truly stunning.

Pretty sure it's been mentioned but Mitch is confirmed the first ever openly gay character in a children's animated movie, so that's just one more cool thing about this movie! :)

Oh man Paranorman is one of my all time fav stop motion films, I'm so glad you guys watched it! I hope you watch Kubo as well but also Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Wererabbit, I feel like that one would be good for spooky month.

Such an underrated movie! I love movies like this where it's a fun mixture of campy, dark, hilarious, exciting, creepy and wholesome!

This is such an underrated movie! I'm so glad you're watching it! :)

Yessss i was hoping yall would react to this i cant wait to watch after work

Absolutely love the 80s feel this movie has, easily my favorite stop-motion movie to date

The stop motion animation in this film is incredible. The story and the characters are all excellent too. The whole climax of the film, with confronting Agatha, is my favorite stop motion animation that I've ever seen.

First time seeing this in a few years & it still looks very amazing. Fun fact they did use bit of CG on Agatha witch from for the faces. Hope to see a reaction on 9 (2009) & Cloverfield.

And the actors have to record first so they can animate them to sync up. So by the time the movie comes out a lot of these kids are grown.

Cool that you mentioned Sleepy Hollow, I don’t live far from there :) Gonna be around there for Halloween… perfect place for it!

I love when she’s apart of videos.

I have a strong memory of seeing this in theaters when it came out when I was 5, with my grandpa who came all the way from philly to Georgia. It’d be great if y’all could watch Boxtrolls, Kubo and the two strings, and Missing Link. Laika makes really good movies

Definitely recommend watching the special features on this one, the whole witch scene was done in frame... they literally printed out those weird heads and transitions.

I do love this film especially that twist at the end about hwo the witch really is.

I have always loved this movie. It's really underrated

oh i used to loooooove this movie its so unique and has an amazing storyline

Wiccan is what Witches originally called, and sot out for wisdom at one time

Duude I remember this movie from ages ago!

YES! I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE, IT'S MY FAVORITE

17:45 Moral of Courage the Cowardly Dog and just having courage!

this is literally my favorite movie form laika, it's so good! super excited to watch the reaction

17:26 *Halloween ring tone* Subtitles: "[Friday the 13th ring tone]" PS: I know it's not a Halloween movie, but you guys should react to Fantastic Mr. Fox. It's an awesome stop-motion film by Wes Anderson.

I mean, to be fair, she really was a witch

17:26 WTF, wait a minute i just realised that the subtitles say thats Friday the 13th on the ringtone. Thats actually the Halloween theme song not Friday the 13th.

I love how no one noticed or caught the reference to the original HALLOWEEN with Michael standing by the bush/shrub when Norman got to school and Prenderghast was watching him😂

YALL HAVE TO DO KUBO NEXT ITS SO GOOD

such a great movie. fun, funny, and hits you in the feels.

14:57 is it just me or is this Finn from adventure times VA

My favorite aspect of this movie is that it plays with expectation. which fits the story they wanted to tell. Normans friend is the little fat kid who youd think would get bullied and cower or complain about it. But this kid embraces everything he is and when bullied, snarks right back at them like it isnt even a thought.The stereo typical looking jock character is actually pretty subdued and ends up being gay. It fits the narrative of the movie, that you should never a judge a book by its cover. That you shouldnt judge a persons worth soley on what you see in front of you.

New Englan may have witches, but over in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, we got the Mothman.

The next movie you have to watch is ABSOLUTELY Hunchback of Notre Dame!!

Great reaction! 🙂 You guys have to watch *Kubo and the Two Strings* , it is an AMAZING FILM, same studio. This film is UNBELIEVABLE. I think it’s on tier with Paranorman. Amazing story and must see.

this movie was so ahead of its time

Even though this movie is definitely a childhood classic as I saw it in theatres with my mates, its a great representation of believing in ghosts, the innocent lives taken due to conspiracy of witchcraft, and the realistic perspective of being schizophrenic.

as I keep going through movies I thought were weird as a kid, I remember my biases were because of the promotional material. a movie where the town was going to be eaten by zombies was all I wanted as a kid, and because animations were for kids my parents let me watch it?! That was a dream come true! I wasn't expecting a movie that subverted the zombie movies, and had an actual morals on fear and bullies. As a kid I felt betrayed by what I wanted vs what animators wanted to show me. I go back to old movies with less of this mindset, but I had to learn early on that tv promotions overhyped and ruined some of the messages stories wanted to teach me. Some movies just didn't work out because the movie trailers overdelivered on kids' wishes, but later became cult classics because there wasn't tv commercials to ruin it.

Fun Fact at 44:10 Mitch is the first Gay character ever to be confermed in Animated Media. and then as a plus the way they reveal it is so good. nothing like forcing it down people Throat and it is so late in the movie that most homophobes didn't have a chance to leave since.

This movie does not get enough love. It's such a good movie

That means at some point they had like a wall or maybe even several walls with 31,000 faces hanging up 😅. Talk about creepy inspiration

i am a witch ,but being a witch isn't bad so that is that. Aggie didn't fry them ,but cursed them ,they still hanged her .

Is the blinking video a capture issue, a prevention to getting copyright flagged/since you didn’t have the half screen cover, or something you’re doing moving forward for all of your RU-vid videos?

YES! Such an incredible and underrated film.

17:28 whoever wrote that subtitle should be fired for getting the reference wrong

KUBO would be a great one to watch next with these stop motion films.

So Eric wants to look like the Slim Jim guy

aaah i forgot how this movie was called. thanks