A Few Good Words.

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2004)

The Polar Express has some of the worst *movie* animation I have seen in a long time. When you compare it to works made by companies such as Pixar(Finding Nemo, The Incredibles)and Dreamworks(Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, Shrek, and Shrek 2), it leaves much to be desired as far as animation goes. Animation is supposed to add to the storyline, not take away from it. I find that this movie cannot hold my interest what so ever because of it's horrible animation, the human characters look as if they have NO bones, they look like rubber when they move. I mean Tom Hanks did Toy Story back in what 1998 and even the animation back then, the animators grasped the concept of movement, true movement, in TOYS people, in TOYS! These are supposed to be people, but god it just hurts to look at. Now little children who don't know any better are not going to care because to them it's all about the story which in a book that is exactly what is should be. In an animated movie it's a partnership, one cannot work without the other. Personally they would of done better if this movie was hand drawn and not 3d animated. As far the book goes, this movie does not do it justice and I certainly wouldn't call this lack of effort "the best Christmas movie." It's such a shame.