{"id":11566,"date":"2016-11-14T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11566"},"modified":"2016-11-14T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:44:19","slug":"paranorman-2012-laika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11566","title":{"rendered":"ParaNorman (2012, Laika)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally watched this Laika movie.  I love love loved the look, beautiful stop-motion with ghostly effects.  A total visual triumph, and I wish we&#8217;d caught it in theaters.  Didn&#8217;t expect the screenplay to suck, though.  Overall story is fine, weird kid in town can see ghosts, has to use his powers to save the town from a vindictive witch, but most of the plot points and dialogue were boring and obvious, led by a veritable who-cares of voice acting.  Maybe it&#8217;s just because we watched it on Halloween (Katy&#8217;s sole SHOCKtober film) and treaters interrupted the movie every five minutes so I couldn&#8217;t get sucked into its particular atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><em>The cast:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/paranorm2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The crew:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/paranorm1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally watched this Laika movie. I love love loved the look, beautiful stop-motion with ghostly effects. A total visual triumph, and I wish we&#8217;d caught it in theaters. Didn&#8217;t expect the screenplay to suck, though. Overall story is fine, weird kid in town can see ghosts, has to use his powers to save the town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,110,1885,590,320],"class_list":["post-11566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-ghosts","tag-laika","tag-stop-motion","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11581,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566\/revisions\/11581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}