an average Christmas film that falls a little flat

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2014)

It seems in my house every year at Christmas we watch the polar express and I don't really know why as it is a completely average film that has never done allot for me being honest. This film sees a a non believing boy get on a magic train to go to the north pole and meet Santa Claus. Now a big problem for this film is the lead 'hero boy', the character is just not very interesting at all and you really will not care about him as he screws up throughout the film. The supporting cast is a mixed bag, Tom hanks voices the train conductor and does an awesome job in this role and you feel like he is easily the coolest character in the film. Also the other boy billy's journey is really interesting and you see the character grow over the film and in the end he becomes the character you are rooting for. The girl is a pretty bland character herself and the annoying kid is just way over the top and has absolutely no redeemable qualities to him at all. Overall the story is okay with Billy journey being interesting and the discussion about belief or non belief being solid. But when the audience doesn't care about the main characters story then the story definitely misfired. The script is okay mainly because of the train conductors dialogue but everyone else's kind of falls flat. The style of the film though is fantastic the cgi really works to give this film a darker tone and it is sometimes breath taking seeing the beautiful visuals that this film has. Overall though this is just an average film that you can definitely skip on.