Children might like it

Rating: 4/10 (27 September 2008)

I am 50 yrs old, my fiancÃ© is 48. We settled in on Christmas night to watch Polar Express. Her first words was that the animation was kind of eery and spooky. I commented that it was like watching a movie with animation that had the same look and feel of photo's from children's books. Maybe we were too used to the amazing animation from studio's such as Disney's Pixar? We loved CARS, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc etc. The bottom line was that the animation for Polar Express was just too odd to keep us interested and we turned it off after 20 minutes and switched over to watching "Cars" from Pixar. Polar Express may very well be a wonderful movie, and kids might enjoy it. But it just didn't do it for us. This was the Blu-Ray version, so perhaps my expectations were too high.