Polar Express.......a perfect christmas movie for 1 year olds to 100 year olds. and it never gets old either, i think i have watched this movie over thirty times since it has come out!!!! musical, loving, exciting, mysterious....that is this movie to a T. i enjoyed the music, how can you not start to sing "hot, Hot, Hot"? it's exciting and makes you feel young again! it's mysterious in that you don't ever know who that guy was with the sock coffee!!! so many things to make this movie wonderful. i totally reccomend it to everyone a great thing to atch on christams ...  Read the complete review

Review of the Polar Express available at play.com for £4.49 for the 1 disc version or £9.99 for this 2 disc version. Stars the voice talents of: Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, Eddie Deezen, Daryl Sabara, Brenden king, Peter Scolari. Director: Robert Zemickis ( other films by this director inc: back to the future trilogy, what lies beneath, forest gump, castaway) based on the book by: Chris Van Allsburg Screenplay: Robert Zemickis Runtime: 99mins Released: 2004 **************************************************** Generally when Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks team up the ...  Read the complete review

It's getting to that time of the year again when our thoughts are turning towards Christmas. With Christmas comes a host of seasonal films, the classics are shown year upon year, and despite The Polar Express being a relatively new film, I believe it to be a classic. This film will no doubt be shown many times over the Christmas periods of years to come. The Polar Express is an animated film using motion capture (in other words, the actors' physical performances were digitally captured with 3D motion capture technologies to get more realistic movements from the animated characters). The quality of the animated film is fantastic and you are drawn into the ...  Read the complete review

I was another one of the many people who managed to miss this film the first time it was released. Actually, that's not strictly true (we had a copy sitting in a cupboard for a year that I'd managed to forget about!) Now at the best of times I find myself fairly easy to get into the Christmas spirit, but I found this film to be somewhat derivative and genuinely wasn't sure whether or not children would enjoy it that much. The basic plot revolves around the adventures of a young boy on Christmas eve as he undertakes a magical adventure to the North pole on a mysterious steam train, peopled with other children and a cast of offbeat characters. ...  Read the complete review

Based on the children's story by Chris Van Allsburg, THE POLAR EXPRESS is a Christmas movie from 2004, directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film tells the story of a young boy who is just at the stage where he is beginning to doubt the existence of Santa Claus and whose belief in the 'magic' of Christmas is beginning to fade. He gets whisked away to the North Pole on the train known as the Polar Express (hence the title of the film) where his belief is reinvigorated. Made using performance capture technology, where the actors act whilst there movements are recorded by computer and then turned into semi-realistic animation, the film is a joy to look at. ...  Read the complete review