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This visually impressive yet emotional frigid fable could perhaps more accurately be tagged "The Bipolar Express"...
Full reviewRobert Zemeckis' motion-capture CGI animated adaptation of the Van Allsburg childrens novel, about a young boy in search of the true spirit of Christmas, who takes a train ride on the magical Polar Express to meet Santa at the North Pole. The Polar Express is the first fully motion-capture animated film ever.
This visually impressive yet emotional frigid fable could perhaps more accurately be tagged "The Bipolar Express"...
Full reviewThe result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong...
Full reviewA movie for more than one season; it will become a perennial, shared by the generations. It has a haunting, magical quality because it has imagined its world freshly and played true to it...
Full reviewA story that soars with breakneck pace but slows in all the tender moments. Visually, this train ride is both majestic and edge-of-your-seat...
Full reviewJust like “It’s A Wonderful Life” is shown on TV every year, The Polar Express should appear in IMAX theaters that traditionally...
Full reviewFor all the fairy-lit wonder, some will rail at the idea of the director of Back To The Future dabbling with such a schmaltzy tale. Cynics will sneeze in shock; children, young and old, will cuddle up and dream along...
Full reviewBesides its dead-eyed cast, this 'animated' escapade is thrown off the tracks by pointless detours seemingly intended just to stretch the journey time...
Full reviewThe Polar Express is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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