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Format: Blu-ray
Program Type: Movie
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Product Name: Hugo [Blu-ray] [2011]
UPC: 883929302185
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Scorsese's passion for film shines through in Hugo
Buy this movie! Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's *The Invention of Hugo Cabret" is surprisingly touching and personal, and great fun to boot.
Set inside the walls of a train station, we meet Hugo, a boy who is living alone in the station's clock tower. He spends his days observing the throngs of passengers passing through the station, and spends his evenings carefully reconstructing a mysterious mechanical man--his late father's pet project--using a secret diary. To rebuild the mechanical man -- he steals wind-up toys for the gears and things inside. One day he is caught, and his diary stolen, and that's just the beginning of the film. What follows is an adventure that brings him into contact with many interesting characters, including a spirited girl and a toy shop owner who is not quite what he seems. You'll be surprised where this movie ultimately takes you.
It's hard to see at first why Scorsese would be interested in this story, of all the stories he could have filmed, but that eventually becomes clear, and afterward you will realize why Scorsese was the perfect person to film this story.
Nominated for a Best Picture academy award, it's well worth your time, and stands up to multiple viewings.
We had seen this movie at the theater and enjoyed the brilliant story presentation and film composition of the famous Martin Scorsese, as well as the superb character acting of all the principals. The artistic feel of this film was not so widely appreciated as I think it should have been. The story line authenticity and basic adherence to the book, borders on non-fiction coupled with seamless special effects truly draws you into that time period and the lives portrayed. The 3-D version really helps with that.
As good a film as Scorsese has ever done, bar none
Brilliant film by Martin Scorsese, based on the novel, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret." Many great performances including Helen McCrory as Mama Jeanne, wife to Sir Ben Kingsley's Georges Melies, an early French director of silent films. If not for the outstanding cast, Sacha Baron Cohen would have stolen the show, in a surprisingly understated dramatic role, as the Paris Train Station inspector, trying to catch the nimble young thief, Asa Butterfield, who lives in the station and survives on his wits after his father and neglectful uncle die. Chloe Grace Moretz is equal parts charm, intelligence, and curiosity, as the grandchild of Melies, trying to redeem young Hugo and her grandfather's contributions to film, after being forgotten.
One of only a handful of films I've every seen in the theater where the audience literally stood up and cheered at the end!
A great selection that every family should see.
