Wonderful!

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2004)

I took my 6-year-old to this movie today. The theater was full of kids and parents, with a few unattached adults. I take my boy to lots of movies and I cannot recall the last time he and every other kid in the theater was completely silent for the entire length of the film. They were all enchanted, and frankly, so was I. While exiting, I heard some teenage girls talking about how they had been crying during the film, and I believe that. There is not much to the plot, but complicated story lines are not what entertains kids. The book on which it is based was thin, and so the lack of plot is understandable. The technology was terrific and the graphics made it quite exciting and realistic for an animated movie. We enjoyed POLAR EXPRESS very much, and I recommend it.