Variety
This visually impressive yet emotional frigid fable could perhaps more accurately be tagged "The Bipolar Express"...
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The Polar Express
Robert 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.
2006Rating: G99 minsUSA
AdventureAnimatedKids & FamilyFantasy
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back To The Future, Cast Away)
- Writer:
- Robert ZemeckisWilliam Broyles Jr.
- Cast:
- Tom HanksEddie DeezenLeslie Harter ZemeckisNona Gaye
The Polar Express | Reviews
Rolling Stone
The result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong...
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Roger Ebert
A 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...
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Hollywood Reporter
A 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...
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Film Threat
Just like “It’s A Wonderful Life” is shown on TV every year, The Polar Express should appear in IMAX theaters that traditionally...
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Empire Magazine
For 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...
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BBC
Besides its dead-eyed cast, this 'animated' escapade is thrown off the tracks by pointless detours seemingly intended just to stretch the journey time...
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The 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.