This is a great movie, but not for the reasons you think

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2014)

This review is chuck full of spoilers. Everything I wrote is a spoiler. You will be spoiled on all parts of this movie if you continue to read this review.
8 things I took away from the Conjuring in no particular order
1. The ghost hunter guy looked exactly like Will Arnett. I could not take him seriously at all. Everything he said, the way he carried himself, the outfits, the haircut - it was all Gob Bluth. In fairness, this was my perception that others wouldn't necessarily have, still, it made this movie hilarious.
2. If I ever decide to move, I am taking my dog to every open house with me and the minute Ser Barkley doesn't want to go through the front door, I'm not going through the front door. Listen to your pets, friends. They've been trying to tell you about houses filled with demons for years now.
3. When you are alone in the house with 5 children, the outside doors are banging open and you hear footsteps and destruction in various rooms - run past the phone to investigate the basement. DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. As an unarmed person, you are the perfect one to protect your family and defeat whomever might've broken into your home in the middle of the night.
4. If a monster showed up in the scary armour, clapping and whispering "I'm going to kill you and your family", most young children would get out of bed to check it out in the dark. This is the normal response of a scared child, not screaming their faces off until a parent comes into the room like 7-year-old you and I would've done.
5. How unlucky did these people get? They couldn't just buy a haunted house, they had to buy the most haunted house ever in existence. The big backstory reveal was so hilariously over the top, everyone I watched this with was in tears from laughing so hard.
6. It invades the mother to kill the child. It invades the mother to kill the child. It invades the mother to kill the child. "Here kids, jump into the car with your bruised up mom, who's been acting funny since having a weird episode in the bathroom a couple hours ago. Oh and don't worry about that part 10 minutes ago where we mentioned she was being fed on by a demon. Go ahead and drive to a motel while the rest of us that are trained to deal with type of thing stay here. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan." It invades the mother to kill the child.
7. "As a trained ghost hunter, I think it's safest to keep my collection of possessed demon trinkets locked up in my converted guest bedroom. I'm sure my 6-year-old daughter will be fine sleeping a few rooms down. It's just not worth an investment in a backyard shed or external storage site. The church is fine with this plan. It's also a good idea to show it off to reporters in hope that they write positive things, just as long as they don't touch anything of course."
8. This is the most powerful demon in the history of demons. It has caused centuries of death and madness to a huge radius of land. Having a demon hunter exercise it out of existence takes 5, 6 minutes at most. Gob Bluth is well-trained in this, he's seen it done before a few times.
I'm giving this movie high marks because it was the funniest movie I've seen all year. Bonus points to Brad Hamilton, the best cop in town and my favorite person in this movie. I want a sequel where it's him and the audio kid running around solving paranormal crimes.