Scorsese's best since "The Age of Innocence"!

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2011)

"Hugo" is a wonderful homage to the cinema, made a director, who's deeply in love with the movies. I expected "Hugo" to be 'just' some 3-d adventure movie for family, but it is something bigger, much bigger. It is baffling, beautiful and lovely. I don't want to write much about the plot, because watching the film is some kind of exploring a young boy's world. The sad story of an orphan in Paris is told in unique pictures and lovely characters.
Scorsese's last productions have been awesome. Only "Shutter Island" appeared quit trivial next to epics like "Gangs of New York" or "The Aviator", but "Hugo" is something you see very seldom in the last years. We have seen it in "The King's Speech" or "Into the Wild". "Hugo" is a film of the heart. And next to "The Artist" the best picture of the year.