SummaryWhen a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe. (Warner Bros.)
SummaryWhen a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe. (Warner Bros.)
A movie for more than one season; it will become a perennial, shared by the generations. It has a haunting, magical quality because it has imagined its world freshly and played true to it,
Easily the best holiday movie to be produced in the last few decades. I BELIEVE I can DEPEND ON this movie being played in my household every holiday season.
I saw this around second grade in 2013, and I doubts on this film, but. I was wrong. this film is a complete masterpiece, and by far. my favorite Christmas movie.
The story offers lessons in faith and self-esteem; the darker passages of the child's journey are countered by shimmering, cascading beacons of light; and fine period detail adds to the nostalgic glow.
A genuinely handsome film, and it tells a story that is well worth knowing. It's a kind, gentle and sweet holiday confection. But my Christmas wish is that the DVD comes packaged with the book.
The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be seen with all sorts of wholly invented characters, complications, and declarations.
As a spectacle, The Polar Express looks remarkable. As a film, however, it's the equivalent of an elaborately wrapped Christmas present containing a nice new pair of socks.
Bueno, a esta película le tenia muchísima nostalgia, pero que se le va a hacer. El Expreso Polar se podría decir que cumple con lo básico en cuanto a película navideña, pero sin aspirar a nada mas. Tiene una animación decente, y buenas canciones, pero el resto de cosas no son lo suficientemente satisfactorias de ver. La historia en general se siente muy alargada artificialmente y no todos los personajes son tan explotados, siendo el único que destaca es el conductor del tren. Algo que El Expreso Polar hace realmente bien son en cuanto a las moralejas que enseña sobre la navidad, son muy buenas y tiene bastantes! Asi que si realmente estas metido en todo esto del espíritu navideño esta película realmente te gustara, aunque si eres mas neutral en todo este tipo de cosas, pues, no parecerá la gran cosa, ya que no ofrece nada mas aparte de lo mas básico que es ser una película navideña. Las mejores películas navideñas no solo destacan por ser eso, sino también porque tienen una buena historia aparte con la que defenderse.
It was with some expectation that I decided to see this Christmas movie. I already had the perception that the film, despite being fresh and recent, quickly fell into a certain way of oblivion, with the television channels preferring other films during the Christmas season. Inspired by a book, which I have never read but heard about, the film addresses as a great theme people's disbelief, from a certain point on, in Santa Claus.
In the film, a child whose name we do not know is invited to take a night trip to the North Pole, aboard a magical steam train, to meet Santa Claus and watch the old man depart on his annual trip to distribute gifts to the children of the World. He, however, does not believe in Santa Claus. Based on these premises, the film tried to build a kind of fable about the beauty of the Santa Claus myth. This never really worked: in addition to having no logic, the film has a terribly abrupt start: in the opening five minutes, we get a glimpse of the boy's life as he pretends to sleep, and we board the train without further explanation. The journey is lukewarm and uninteresting, the other children are bland or irritating and there is a character, somewhat ghostly, whose reason for existing is never really explained, but who helps the protagonist when he needs it. The ending is a kind of Santa Claus Superstar, with a show of aerial acrobatics of the gnomes.
Although the film has a pitiful script and was notoriously the victim of radical cuts at the editing table, it's necessary to bow to Tom Hanks for an extraordinary vocal tour de force: the actor took full advantage of his vocal skills and gave voice to a handful of distinct characters throughout the film, with evident highlights for the train collector and Santa Claus. But in addition to all these voices, the actor also sang in several of the main songs of the soundtrack, which has its moments of quality, despite not being memorable, having a series of moments where it seems to copy the soundtrack of "Edward Scissorhands" and having a certain song, "Hot Chocolate", which I didn't like because of the extreme simplicity of the lyrics. Another aspect that deserves our positive appreciation is the extraordinary visual accuracy of the film, which makes the most of visual effects and CGI, providing us with elegant, colorful, vibrant and engaging animation.
That said, I fully understand why this film came and went as quickly as a comet, both in theaters and on television, and ended up in the wastebasket of cinema history: despite director Robert Zemeckis having made a strong bet on visual effects and in a good animation, no film can't be sustained without a good story to tell.
This movie is literally a video game, but it's a movie and there is nothing exiting or interesting happening. Like half the time there are long exaggerated scenes that don't add to the movies story. It just an average bad movie.