The others I saw since were just not attractive to me - it seems that in stop-motion animation people are just too grotesque and I can't say I like it. But ParaNorman? It is absolutely stunning.
Not just characters are well-done and perfectly animated, but even colour palettes in each scene matches the mood perfectly.
And of course the sсript itself is extremely good written. Jokes are, like, really good, and quite mature I might say.
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And jokes are not the only mature part in here. The movie gives us this problem with being an outcast and how children are coping with it. However, as it rarely happens in such cases, the movie also acknowledges very much the same guy can easily become a bully. Like Neil says:
"You can't stop bullying. It's part of human nature. If you werebigger and more stupid, you'd probably be a bully, too."
The self-awareness of this speech just blows away. Neil is essentially saying, “Yes, I’m a good person. But I might not be if circumstances had been different.”
And eventually Norman gets that perfectly. He is always the one being picked on, but he still has the courage to say to Aggie - the very same girl who was at the same situation as he is now - that her actions are not justified.
"Sometimes when people get scared, they say and do terrible things."
And this is the moral of the story. ParaNorman teaches us to not hold your grudges. Acting wickedly to retaliate for the injury done to you will not improve matters.