Wonderful experience.

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2012)

Kudos to director Martin Scorsese, master of cerebral and dark, presents a very colorful jubilee of sights and sounds. Based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, an orphan boy named Hugo(Asa Butterfield)lives in the walls of a 1930s Parisian train station. Hugo's father(Jude Law)dies leaving the young boy in the custody of the lad's uncle, who disappears and leaves him to wind the hug clocks at the station. The only tangible memory of Hugo's father is an automaton, a mechanical man. Hugo is smart enough to make the unfinished work complete by stealing various small metal items from a toy shop in the station. Hugo is finally caught by the store's owner Georges(Ben Kingsley), who puts him to work instead of turning him over to the station's only policeman(Sacha Baron Cohen). In the process Hugo meets Georges' goddaughter Isabelle(Chloe Grace Moretz, who will befriend Hugo and help him search for a key that fits the automaton that is believed to foretell Hugo's destiny. A family fun movie that holds interest from beginning to end. Also starring are Frances de la Tour, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee and Emily Mortimer. HUGO is very award worthy.