A Visual Extravaganza

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2004)

A great Christmas tale wrapped up in the BEST animation and direction all year!!! This movie was entirely animated because of one reason: to make the movie in real life would have cost something like $2 billion dollars (excerpts from Director Zemeckis). Watch it and you'll understand (although making this revolutionary animation didn't come cheap either, at $165 million dollars!). The filming angles, settings, character movements, the Polar Express ride, and the City of North Pole, simply could not be shot in real life with the kind of stunning effects presented in this movie. Tom Hanks delivers yet another (and another, and another... for a total of 5 roles) astounding performance. This is exactly how animated films should be made, to present stories in ways impossible with real-life characters and cameras!! (unlike cheap attempts like the Rugrats or Pokemon). Watch it in an IMAX theater if it's available to you! You are gonna be in for a visual treat!