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Mood:
- Feel GoodStylizedTouching
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Plot:
- Young HeroesSelf DiscoveryHeroesMind and SoulMisfitYouthDisorderFish Out of Water
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Genres:
- FamilyFantasyHollywood ToneAdventureAnimationDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbuster
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Style:
- Voice Over
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- Computer Animated3DMotion Capture
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The Polar Express, 2004
English
USA
Profile of The Polar Express
The Polar Express can be described as stylized, feel good, and touching. The plot revolves around young heroes, self discovery, and misfits. The main genres are family, fantasy, and drama. In terms of style, The Polar Express has a Hollywood tone and includes a voice over. In approach, it is fantastical. It takes place in the 1950s. Visually, The Polar Express involves motion capture effects, is 3D, and is computer animated. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster and an award winner. The Polar Express is well suited for kids and a family outing.
Summary of The Polar Express
Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionized the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism. A landmark technique Zemeckis and his Sony Pictures Imageworks team call "Performance Capture" perfectly suits the tenor of this wondrous children's Christmas story by Chris Van Allsburg. A disillusioned little boy, just old enough to doubt the existence of Santa Claus, has the adventure of a lifetime one fateful Christmas Eve. Clad in his pajamas, he climbs aboard a magic train to the North Pole, driven by a kindly train conductor (voiced by Tom Hanks who starred in both of Zemeckis's Academy-Award winning films FORREST GUMP and CASTAWAY). Among myriad jaw-dropping moments, the train plummets brakeless through crystalline mountains in a simulated roller coaster ride. Going off the rails, skidding sideways, and snaking violently across a frozen lake, the train arrives at the North Pole (a vast, glowing city of brick buildings). At that moment, the car carrying the kids detaches and they're sent tumbling down never-ending chutes and slides until they land in the middle of Santa's Workshop. With its fascinating tale and impressive technical frolics, THE POLAR EXPRESS is destined to become both a holiday classic and a new turning point in the art of animated cinema.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 October 2004 |
| Runtime: | 100 min |
Cast and Crew
as Hero Boy / Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus
as Smokey / Steamer
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Mick LaSalle
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Duane Byrge
Users Reviews
- 12.October.2009
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- by: Daniel Valdez
- Daniel Valdez rated this movie
9/10Amazing
- 21.March.2009
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- by: gauravarora77
- gauravarora77 rated this movie10/10Must See
