Visually stunning, ESPECIALLY in IMAX 3D

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2004)

If you are going to see any movie in 3D, this is the one to see. Filled with cutting-edge, life-like animation, the 3D experience in IMAX makes you feel like you are one of the characters in the movie.
Starring Tom Hanks (playing/voicing 6 characters in the feature nonetheless!), The Polar Express is the story of a boy (voice of Daryl Sabara) that is starting to lose his excitement in Christmas as well as his belief that there really exists Santa Claus. On Christmas Eve, he goes to bed with doubts on his mind only to wake up to a multi-car locomotive outside of his house led by Conductor Tom Hanks. The Conductor invites the boy to take a voyage up to the North Pole to experience for himself what Christmas is all about.
While The Polar Express is light on a thought-provoking and/or innovative plot, it offers some of the most incredible visuals a moviegoer has ever seen. It is an enjoyable ride through the snow, ice and then some all the way to the North Pole where millions of elves help Santa prepare for his departure to deliver gifts all around the world to those children whom have behaved themselves.
Bottom line: this is a must-see family film!