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A wonderful, warm-hearted film
PostedNovember 24, 2011
nonnick
from Los Angeles
HUGO 3D is an homage to all movies, both technically and story-wise, and to all audiences young and old. Scorsese is probably at his career best, even though HUGO is unlike anything he has done before. The importance of history - in general as well as film and art history - is made visceral. HUGO is Spielbergian but with more restraint, so it never stoops to sentimentality. The casting and acting are at the same extraordinary level as the direction and special effects - if there is any film in which 3D increases the dramatic impact and sense of wonder, HUGO is it. [The world of AVATAR has nothing on the all-encompassing world of the post-WW I Parisian train station!] Like Brian Selznick's visionary, sprawling "graphic children's novel" [what an inadequate term for THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET] on which the film is based, the story has amazing breadth and depth, touching lightly on the despair everyone must face in life for any number of unpredictable reasons, while grounding that story in wondrous big and little details of humanity at its worst and best. I was mesmerized from beginning to end. I won't just recommend the film to others, I will probably kidnap people and take them to the theater.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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