A wondrous new kind of animation

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2006)

Wonderous, marvelous, stupendous animation. Like nothing I've seen before, and Tom Hanks playing all those roles. The story is cool, the characters are cool. The ghost hobo is cool. Let's face it almost nothing is wrong with this movie. My only complaint is minor and I think the children would be less creepy if they had names. Look at the credit listing, it says thing like HERO BOY and KNOW-IT-ALL. These are names the script gave them. I would think to make them more well rounded characters the one thing they would been first is a name. I'm just saying. But that is so minor it didn't even effect the grade I'm giving it. The animation and the Tom Hanks is the main attraction and the main appeal of the Polar Express and I hope this new kind of motion capture is around a long, long time. 10 STARS.