Of Movies and Yogurt

Rating: 3/10 (10 December 2011)

Years ago yogurt was a health food. Only health food nuts ate it. Over the years more and more sweeteners were added to it and now, finally, everyone likes yogurt but, alas, it is not what it once was. That brings me to Martin Scorsese's film "Hugo". The huge, overblown, overlong first half of the film is little better than the whimsy overload of a Harry Potter film. Only the ultimate conceit that the film is about films, specifically those of Georges Méliès, gives it what slim interest it has. On the whole it's kind of like being presented with a big box of chocolates by Travis Bickle. One can only hope that no moths were harmed in the production of this motion picture.