The Polar Express (Blu-ray) G
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 30, 2007
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Hanks & Michael Jeter | |
Performer: | Peter Scolari, Nona Gaye, Eddie Deezen, Charles Fleischer & Daryl Sabara | |
Directed by | Robert Zemeckis | |
Edited by | Jeremiah O'Driscoll & R. Orlando Duenas | |
Screenwriting by | William Broyles, Jr. & Robert Zemeckis | |
Composition by | Alan Silvestri | |
Produced by | Steve Starkey, Gary Goetzman, William Teitler & Robert Zemeckis | |
Director of Photography: | Don Burgess | |
Executive Production by | Jack Rapke |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
The schmaltz content gets higher and higher, as if administered through a drip feed, until by the end we are drowning in sucrose.
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Guardian
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The trailers and TV commercials for The Polar Express don't do justice to the breathtaking artistry of the film.
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Buffalo News
People in Hollywood should never work with children or animals, W.C. Fields once said. Maybe that should be expanded to hyper-realistic computer-generated children and reindeer, too.
Associated Press
Rating: 4.5/5 --
There is something indescribably unworldly about this picture, and not just because of the pioneering use of motion-capture technology.
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Herald Sun (Australia)
The rest is easily summarized: the Polar Express arrives, Hero Boy and some other dead-eyed zombie children get onboard. . .we reach the real Santa, who exists, and drops a little silver bell from his sleigh, which the boy later finds.
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The New York Review of Books
A worthy and entertaining film. [Full Review in Spanish]
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La Nación (Argentina)
Polar Express has its moments, but it's not enough. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Product Description:
Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionized the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism. A landmark technique Zemeckis and his Sony Pictures Imageworks team call "Performance Capture" perfectly suits the tenor of this wondrous children's Christmas story by Chris Van Allsburg. A disillusioned little boy, just old enough to doubt the existence of Santa Claus, has the adventure of a lifetime one fateful Christmas Eve. Clad in his pajamas, he climbs aboard a magic train to the North Pole, driven by a kindly train conductor (voiced by Tom Hanks who starred in both of Zemeckis's Academy-Award winning films FORREST GUMP and CASTAWAY). Among myriad jaw-dropping moments, the train plummets brakeless through crystalline mountains in a simulated roller coaster ride. Going off the rails, skidding sideways, and snaking violently across a frozen lake, the train arrives at the North Pole (a vast, glowing city of brick buildings). At that moment, the car carrying the kids detaches and they're sent tumbling down never-ending chutes and slides until they land in the middle of Santa's Workshop. With its fascinating tale and impressive technical frolics, THE POLAR EXPRESS is destined to become both a holiday classic and a new turning point in the art of animated cinema.
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- Sales Rank: 27,234
- UPC: 085391157038
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