The Reel Rejects - PARANORMAN (2012) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:37 In three, two, one. All right, let's get into some SpongeBob now. Yep, we're playing SpongeBob movie Primetime Emmys one-time Nominated 2019. If you are listening to us on Spotify and iTunes, we just watch Paranorman for the very first time. I have a lot of love for the style, the aesthetic, the visuals, the creativity, the pure wonder. I definitely had moments where I was aware it was skewing younger, but it had enough like, I found every five minutes or so there'd be a joke that would bring me back in. So that really worked me and the visuals were nothing short of miraculous. That was a really special experience. Yeah, and also too, if you like these teas, rejectnation shop.com. Look cool like Christmas too. Yeah, no, I agree with you. Also, the visuals, I mean, like I mentioned quite a bit. I really like to display my affection and appreciation for those that takes such amount of time and care because I know, I mean, it's just like us. When we mentioned like to the editors, like Prepper and all that, like it's a lot of hard work. And especially with these kinds of visuals, like with the shadow shots, the spiky hair, it's a lot of attention to detail. And just in the little things, too, like Wednesday, how it was misspelled. Like, there's a lot of hard work that goes into these things.

Starting point is 00:03:02 So that's why if it might seem like we're repeating or especially me, I'm the ultimate king of repeating, it's because I really have a deep affection for how much I appreciate the hard work that goes into it. It takes a long time to make sure, make these shots really count and do it the right way. It's hard because you can make it look like shit so easily. And this looks fantastic. I love the stop motion. and I thought Norman such a great character

Starting point is 00:03:27 I love just his arc in general I just love where we start with but it's such a fascinating thing I mean I love how right away we just make it very I mean from the title I love the title of the film first of all but just you know

Starting point is 00:03:39 by the way I knew I had never heard of this film when Greg texted us last night said I thought he missed spelled paranormal and like because it was late I was like he must have misspelled but yeah I had never even heard of this movie

Starting point is 00:03:53 so great I had only heard it in passing, so I know it existed, but I didn't even know it existed. But yeah, great title. But then I love at the beginning of this film how, okay, this kid's a major pariah. For understandable reasons, like if someone says they talk to the dead and they walk around. Yeah, and again, I'm not a judgmental or mean human being, but in my own mind, I'm going to be like, okay. Not going to say anything mean, but I'm going to keep me there. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to write freak on.

Starting point is 00:04:23 his locker room but I'll definitely be like I don't know if I'd want to be alone yeah yeah for sure but again I love the journey we go on with this character and it was great and also to the interactions we see with these other characters I love how too like it's also paying homage there's so many other films that came before it yeah you got the Halloween you got Friday the 13th you got the goonies it literally turned into the goonies that the audio cues a couple like I mean Halloween was the most obvious but there were moments I was like oh I think that's a blank like it was really cool they got motifs Yeah, and obviously a major homage to Tim Burton as well.

Starting point is 00:04:57 Yeah. You can tell as well. I mean, I really, really appreciate and love this film. I also thought, too, what I loved about Norman, for a kid who was viewed as, and again, like, in his mind, like, he actually sees these dead people. This is really happening for him. And again, you can understand the town, even though I don't understand judging people in a mean, ostracizing ways they did. I understand why they think he's weird. Totally understandable.

Starting point is 00:05:22 But I don't. understand why they would be such pieces of shit to him, especially it's being a little kid. The point I'm making is what I loved about Norman is through all the horrific interactions he had been through with kids at school and adults, he still was a good person, a good little kid at the end of the day. He still did what was right. And he still had his humanity. He still had compassion. And I appreciated that about his character. Like he easily could have been a little shit and I would have been like

Starting point is 00:05:53 hey I get it like people are awful yeah let them suffer let them die let this ghostly let this little girl who was wrongly you know taken from life by these other horrific like this town just has the worst people apparently but let

Starting point is 00:06:10 let this curse thing eradicate this place from earth I would have understood where he's coming from you know with how he's being treated but no he's still decided to do what was right. And I like that message. You know what I mean? I like the two wrongs don't make a right at the end. Absolutely. They also have the parallel between the two of them. I also enjoyed the choice to

Starting point is 00:06:30 not make them necessarily related, but homage, the idea that with the eyebrows where it could have been a 400 year earlier ancestor. And I really liked the overall idea that like the weird kid, not only the trope of finding other weird kids to be friends with, but letting their specialness be the thing that saves you. That's always like, you know, a nice message. to have your audit ebe that your strength but i think especially using this medium to do a horror thing was really cool because claymation no matter what it is like kubo in the five strings or corline which i have seen and i really enjoy but i had only seen it last year and it's the 15th year anniversary so i was quite late on that one as well but uh there's always like a spookiness

Starting point is 00:07:08 to me like the way clay look it's just it's it's tangible but almost animated so there's an uncanny valley thing where like your brain's putting together all these different colors but you can actually tactilely see how it's lit with natural lighting. I think the way it was used here was stunning because it allowed for things like those spikes and motion to feel so much more tangible and real and that allowed the spookiness to feel more

Starting point is 00:07:29 like nightmarish or dreamlike. There was a lot of dreamlike imagery which I think really worked like the Terry cloth for the clouds and the sunset was actual lighting and like those things were really cool so I think it added to the story I definitely think at times the story is predictable but it's a young skewing movie so I was okay

Starting point is 00:07:45 with that and it did a thing where it took a left just often enough with its humor or with some of its choices that it was it stayed engaging and i think like as one of those studios like pixar where even if the story or some of the jokes aren't for you the visual splendor will always keep you enamored visually like you could pause this movie and just hold on a frame and be like oh my god yeah so like it is one of those studios i'm just always impressed by and uh i had a great sound with this one that's a good point because there were times i'm like i'm loving that we're reacting to it but there's also times i'm like i want to pause and like just admire yes

Starting point is 00:08:17 exactly, which I'm going to go back and watch this for sure. This is also one of those animated films. Like, for me, my favorite types of animated films are ones that are for children and for adults, and I feel like this hit the nail for both. Sure. Dude, you're going to love Coraline. I'm excited. I really want to see it now. So bad.

Starting point is 00:08:32 If we don't react here, that's a good Halloween. Like, we're spooky season. Craig, no, you must wait nine more years. Nine year, ten year anniversary of the reaction to Coraline. But yeah, I had a really good time of this. There is some trivia. Yeah, let's where's, bye, but there it is. Did the ghost take it? It's The zombies took it.

Starting point is 00:08:47 Norman has it. I knew it. Damn you, Norman. All right, Paranorman. Let's see what we got here. Oh, first of all, this is a game I like to play now with everyone. Out of 10 on IMDB rating, what would you guess the average rating is at a 10 for this? 8.2.

Starting point is 00:09:05 7.0. Okay. So pretty good. I give it a 7. So that's actually, like I was thinking this is a 3.5 for me, which would be a 7. So that works. at a five is what I was going to rate it. So I line up with IMDB.

Starting point is 00:09:20 The circle, there we go, finally stopped. And circles, all right, here we go. Animating the cheesy horror film that Norman is watching at the start of the film was reportedly very difficult for the filmmakers as they had to intentionally make a bad film, bad camera angles, poor focus, bad acting, et cetera, while still working in the very technically

Starting point is 00:09:40 demanding confines of stop motion animation. I imagine spending months on something that was bad, like when your instinct is to make these beautiful shots that's funny yeah no they uh probably got uh what's his name um edwood never actually seen that i haven't actually either oh that'd be a good spooky season one by the way guess who's favorite movie of all time that is our boy john that's his favorite of all time number one favorite movie ever we should have a three-person reaction and just have it like because i wanted to watch fight club with john see it would be fun to watch john's favorite movie with john having two

Starting point is 00:10:11 of us i've only seen fight club one time it's a good one it's a good one uh Uh-oh, there's an after-credit scene. Oh, is there? We didn't get it? Yeah, should we go back in? I don't know if it can we? Oh, there we go. Back always works.

Starting point is 00:10:27 But it says after credit. Should I fast forward a little? Yeah, if we can. Oh, good, you got 10 seconds thing. This is thrilling for the people on Patreon. Thrilling. Well, this is on YouTube right now, actually. This movie?

Starting point is 00:10:42 No, no, no, what we're doing right now. This is on YouTube. Oh. You guys get the full experience of chaos. Dude, I love Sanibuish right now. Yeah, the Greta's style. And all these incredible artists, all these talented people. We appreciate it.

Starting point is 00:10:55 This would take a lot of people with what this movie had to do. Also, good use of Jack White in the credits. I wanted to give that some love. I like Jack White quite a bit and it fit the tone. I'll read the after. Oh, 2012, like, it said, in Coy's defense, it said 2022 on that. And I thought, okay, like, I would have remembered this. I would have heard about this.

Starting point is 00:11:15 Oh, cool. Whoa. Oh my God. That's incredible. Norman to me? Yeah, I saw Norman body rid in the back of it. Oh. Oh, wow.

Starting point is 00:11:31 That's surreal. And then they just smooth out of the eyes. Wow. That's insane. Very nice, Lika. Just knowing the work. Yeah, I thought it was 2000. I didn't think it was 2022.

Starting point is 00:11:46 too i felt like we would have heard about yeah but also too when it said cody smit mcfee i was like he sounds really yeah did he how did he get the childlike voice and it's amazon is wrong guys it says 22 right here so i'm sure for those of you who didn't make it this far you're there's probably a lot of cons damn it coy it's 2012 i was lied to 12 years ago so this came out thank you this came out right before corline because 2020 would have been 12 years years ago and Coraline's 15, right after Coraline. So this is the movie after Coraline. If this is being honest, who knows?

Starting point is 00:12:21 Who knows? 2009. So, yeah, this is right up. So three years later, they did, like, the guy, kid version. Coraline's like a little girl. So there is an after credit scene showing a time lapse of the designing and construction in a workbench

Starting point is 00:12:36 of the Norman character, which ends up with Norman coming to line as if waking up from sleep and leaving the scene. Adorable. During the last few weeks leading up to the film's release, Lyca sent 49, packages to 49 people including Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith and Jenny the bloggers lost in each package consisted of a wooden crate from Blythe Hollow full of grave dirt which recipients had to dig through to unearth a coffin inside the coffin was one of the seven cursed zombies complete with background information and name that's clever I would love that the film company Laika used 3D printers to generate all of the different faces needed for the characters except for the zombies, which had mechanical faces with silicone skins.

Starting point is 00:13:20 Cool. Damn, the details, dude. A vending machine is shown to sell Kujos, a direct reference to the 1983 film Kujo. It even has a dog as a logo. Yep. The details, the details, the details. I actually never, have you seen that film? Kujo, no.

Starting point is 00:13:38 Yeah, I know it's a Stephen King, right? Yeah, I like Stephen King, but I haven't known to know. Final film of Elaine Sturridge before her death on January 17th. 2014. The story is set in the town of Blythe Hollow, whose name is a mashup of two other stories. I was thinking Sleepy Hall. I knew it.

Starting point is 00:13:56 Noel Cowards, Blight Spirit, and Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Because whenever we were in the woods, I was thinking, like, visual reminder. I'm like, this reminds me of Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Yeah. I was thinking that. I was actually about to make that reference. I was like, I can't tell if this is like Tim Burton's Batman, 1989,

Starting point is 00:14:13 when Michael King after the museum. Well, yeah, when you were going to the woods. to the Bat Cave. You remember the wood shots? Tim Burton sees the woods. Yeah. I think it just directs everything. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:14:22 Or if this is the Sleepy Hollow's Woods. I couldn't tell, but clearly it's Tim Burton's woods. Norman's ring tone is Halloween. That one is obvious. The film was shot using a Canon 5D Mark 2 DSLR camera. To generate the 3D effects, the camera was mounted on a special rig that would take one shot, then slide to a slightly different viewpoint to take another shot. shot and then they that's insane also a 5d shoot this is awesome that's crazy i think we use a 5d

Starting point is 00:14:52 in some of our stuff yeah save for judge hopkins the seven curse zombies are not referred to by name but they did have names the aforementioned judge hopkins even hardwick fattieus blackton lemuel spalding amelia wilcott goody temper and while london so next time you watch this now you have eyes peeled on those drape stones i got oh that's true it's a good point i think that's when they flashed by i was trying to read them that's a good point true yeah again it's happening so fast hard as though at the beginning of the film norman is watching a scary movie the actress is modeled after jamie lee curtis in 1978's halloween while the plot is a spoof in 1968's the night of the living dead i thought it was green queen by yeah that's true

Starting point is 00:15:36 very good point uh i'll just do two more and we'll call it today um the Brand name seen on Mr. Prendergast's underwear is Mr. Fell after co-director Sam Fell. Mitch wears Mr. Butler underwear after co-director Chris Butler. I like that. Inserting your names in as Easter eggs. That's how you do it. All right. Last one.

Starting point is 00:15:58 Jeff Garland based his performance of Perry Babcock. I like that name. Perry Babcock on his best friend, Jed Appetow. Leslie Mann's husband. Yeah. Who played his wife? Yes, that's true. So he based his performance on the husband of he was playing.

Starting point is 00:16:16 He's like, if I'm going to play your husband, I'll play your husband. Exactly. It's a very meta, meta connected. You could have killed him. That was a delight. I really enjoyed it for all that you've done. And again, this is why I enjoy being on this channel. Like, I didn't even know this this movie existed.

Starting point is 00:16:33 But this is what like, again, we've done so many, even you and I together, we've done so many reactions on movies I've never seen that I've loved. And this is why I love doing these things for the first time and getting, you know, to do it in front of you guys. So it's thanks to you. So thank you guys. Please leave a like because that allows this to keep happening. Leave a comment. Let us know if you knew it was 2022 or 2012. Also, let us know if you'd seen it before.

Starting point is 00:16:56 Yeah, what a journey. Like out. So much love. Hit that subscription bell. If you haven't yet, so we'll be back for so much more, especially this spooky season. We'll see you soon, Reject Nation. Much love. Like.

Starting point is 00:17:08 Wow. If there's someone's a diary I would love to read. It would be Mikhail Linden's. Yeah. It would just be like James Bond. James Bond. Oh, James Bond. Oh, I'm Swedish.

Starting point is 00:17:21 Mr. James Bond Lyndon. Why can't James Bond just be in Sweden? Oh my gosh. Diary of a wimpy, Swede. I can't imagine what's in there. You know what? I can because it's an improv shout out. I would know that what's in there is your plans, your diabolical plans,

Starting point is 00:17:39 to assassinate the next person who's playing Bond. That's right. Because it's just going to be casting that will upset you because you're a fanatic. You're one of them hardcore fans who just hates whenever there's a casting announcement. Those are McHale's rules. He has prepped himself ready to annihilate the next person who's going to play James Bond. And that's why we need to get our hands on our hands on a diary. But here's a problem, John.

Starting point is 00:18:00 John, got to tell me my promise. The promise, I think it's really invasive to look through someone's diary. Like if I was a cop, SWAT member, you name it. Bad Boy Detective. divorcee from this previous shadow on this other guy Gary Busey take it away John Michael we're gonna go eat a meatball sub that's me right there hang out Gary Busey and I'm there I'm raiding and I'm like wow there's like a thousand bottles of Loub here I don't know what I'm gonna do break off but I would never go through the diary I would

Starting point is 00:18:27 never go through the diary so your business because of my moral standards I would not be able to catch you watch the tapes next thing you know Um, next thing you know, you're freaking off with Chris Pratt. Cannot. Can't play Bond now because McHale took him out. Like the freakies. We finally got there. How could you? How could you? Because you can't. Because I believe in your tenacity to succeed. Shout out to you.

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The Reel Rejects - PARANORMAN (2012) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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