Excellent superb movie

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2014)

This is an excellent movie for all the family. It's about the birth of cinema and is filmed in a magical style. The story was the surprise as we didn't realize it was woven around a real person, Georges Melies, the early film-maker. Excellent, star-studded casting and an engrossing movie. Heavily enhanced with magnificent CGI that you could initially mistake it for a gorgeous animated feature,
Martin Scorsese sets the majority of the tale in a magically intricate and gorgeous looking train station people with interesting characters as orphan Hugo secretly keeps the clocks working and tries to fix a mysterious automaton. During his adventures he befriends a young girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her crotchety Uncle (Ben Kingsley) while trying to avoid being caught and sent to an orphanage by the the station-master, played with humor by Sacha Baron Cohen.. We truly loved this visually sumptuous and fascinating tale for kids and adults