They have perfectly executed what they sought to do.

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2004)

IMHO this is the best of all the superhero movies. One gets the feel of a comic book, with the humor--including a malicious comic heavy--reminding me of the original Captain Marvel comic books. The characters are "human" enough to grab our sympathy but "cartoonish" enough that we suspend our disbelief gladly to see them exercise their magical powers. In some ways this is as ground- breaking as "Snow Whites," even though "Polar Express" has more of the same "feel" as the Disney movie. It has, I think, taken what old Disney films did in two dimensions and extended it into three. The voice characterizations are well-done. It may be nothing peculiar to this film, but the actors seems to have fun doing things verbally that they cannot get away with while doing live action. I expect to see sequels of this. Indeed the film ends with the cliff-hanger than seems to lead us toward one.