A More Recent Christmas Classic

Rating: 7/10 (6 December 2012)

On Christmas Eve, a doubting boy (Tom Hanks) boards a magical train that is headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus's home.
So this is based on a book that looks beautiful and people love it, but is relatively short. How do you make such a short book into a full-length feature film? Normally, you either would not try, or you would try and fail. Somehow they tried and succeeded. Robert Zemeckis, you genius.
They captured the spirit, they captured the artwork... and they made it fun and even a little bit exciting. Well played, everyone. And a special congratulations to Tom Hanks for not only producing the film, but doing several voices, as well. Wow.
Not sure that putting Aerosmith in the film was necessary. In fact, you know, it was not... but oh well. And there seems to be this idea that the film has metaphorical imagery for God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I have my doubts about that. This was certainly not present in the book, and seems unnecessary in the film...