Goulag express (dad)

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2012)

Yikes ! No Maya apocalypse to be able to watch crap like this ! this is the 2nd recent movie of Zemeckis that I found awful and I wonder where has gone the guy behind "BTF" or "Roger Rabbit"? Was it Bob Gale so ?
I remember to have tried it month ago but then, I wasn't convinced by the dull and slow beginning. Now, pumped by Christmas spirit, I tried the whole bottle and it's worst !
it's definitely not a Christmas tale but a reeducation camp: incredulous kids are abducted to accept the one and only truth. "Learn", "Leader", "Believe", that's what the camp warden says to them as a goodbye. During the trip, he asked for billets, make line and respect time! The pole looks like a huge factory, filled with anonymous slaves and Big bother is here to watch all naughty kids. Santa needs his crowd cheering like the best of dictator and it's the one movie about him in which he actually whips his deers!
The production is sharp for nothing: the kids haven't characters and the story is just about going up and down, too slow or too fast on strange vehicles! If JK Rowling didn't stop Harry's adventures in the Hogwarts express, there a reason: nothing can indeed come out of a train trip!
Now, you have been warned: If you look for true magic and poetry about Santa, prefer "the nightmare before Christmas" because here it's rather Satan Klauss !