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rexroom

A horror movie where a child dares to question the existence of Santa and is consequently driven to madness. As lighthearted as Orwell's 1984.

9 years 7 months ago

ChrisReynolds

Plastic-like CGI characters and gigantic icy sets gave this film a very sinister feel. Very unengaging and trite story too.

12 years 4 months ago

The one thing that always bothered me about this movie, and about every other movie this studio came out with afterwords ("Christmas Carol", "Monster House", "Mars Needs Moms") is how deep into the "Uncanny Valley" all of the animated characters go, where all the children look like moving wax-figures with dead, dead eyes... creeps me out.

12 years 8 months ago

dpanter

Lame [4]
A deep journey into the Uncanny Valley indeed, that black girl gave me the creeps something fierce. Way more scary than the Alien monster. Maybe remake this for a 2014 release?

11 years 4 months ago

rociwi

I didn't think there could be bad acting on an animated film. The Polar express proved me wrong. Boring, too simple and the animation seemed amateurish

10 years 1 month ago

Multatula

For a christmass film I missed the warm feeling.

12 years 4 months ago

roddy1996

this be some freaky shit

6 years 4 months ago

Dieguito

Lame [3]

12 years 6 months ago

wmvankoppen

Lame indeed.

13 years 4 months ago

baraka92

Lame.

13 years 6 months ago

Torgo

Uncanny Valley: The Movie

2 years 10 months ago

Siskoid

The Polar Express' source material is similar to Jumanji's and Zathura's, and I get a similar vibe from its film adaptation, with a young boy on the cusp of no longer believing in Santa picked up by a magical train and taken on a perilous journey to the North Pole where he'll either reconnect with his Christmas spirit or be lost. It's a good story with plenty of action, mystery, heart, and magic. So it's really too bad that the animation looks so dated. There are highlights. mind. The train sequences are well choreographed, and the Conductor's face is very well animated, but the bodies often have the quality of a Grand Theft Auto puppet, and the kids' mouth movement are particularly stiff. Even at the time, this was an awkward proposition. Having Tom Hanks play various characters, including the "hero boy" mo-cap, is a silly conceit that doesn't really bear fruit (if we're in a dream and everyone is an avatar of the boy, then Hanks' features should be in EVERYONE; they're not). Trying to make animation realistic misses the point of the medium, in this case. You could have the same digital environments with proper actors inserted into them and it would be a better-looking movie.

5 years 4 months ago

Marcus Fenix

Sooo predictable and boring at times, the movie loses its path and then confuses the viewer a few times. Its like they didnt know what to make eventually. One good example would be the scene **SPOILER***which the conductor takes away the girl and we finaly understand she is in the Drivers seat? I mean like what the actuall freaking f*$&.
And to those who said its a horror movie. I mean, like, COME ONNN, this movie wouldnt be able to scare 10 year olds, you need to stop drinking while watching movies dude. Peace out

3 years 9 months ago

Tiago Costa

5 /5

8 years 4 months ago

IreneAdler

I like it. I think it's visually appealing and also touching.

10 years 1 month ago