the polar express . director robert zemeckis and i love back to the future and forrest gump and contact and and who frame roger rabbit ( no question mark after that movie title . ) . and tom hank and one of my favorite actor . the review of this movie be almost unanimous say that this be an instant holiday classic . ebert and roeper give it two enthusiastic thumb up . even ebert write review give it a full four star . wow . ok. this i get ta see . but wait . the motion capture use look really weird . hmm . maybe i be not so interested in see this anymore . well and you comin . say the train conductor to the boy in the polar express . the boy be reluctant at first and and the train begin on it course without him . the boy soon change his mind and jump aboard just in the nick of time . now and most of you have probably decide to not jump aboard this train and wait for the tv train or rental express ( hee hee and i be so witty and clever ) . i and on the other hand be like the boy who be skeptical at first and but jump on to see what the fuss be all about . i just waste $ 10 and two hour of my life . i can not even begin to explain the pain in my stomach . the polar express be so painful to sit through it not even funny . there no story . there no pay off . you sit there through these series of event and you wonder be there any point to all this . it would be one thing if the scene be entertain . but theyre not . this movie be void of any emotion and any soul and any ounce of plausibility and and most of all represent any fun . this movie be not fun . and let talk about the way these character look for a second . say that it the same technology ( motion and i be sorry and performance capture ) use to make gollum be a real shame because gollum be believable . photo realism just do not translate well in this medium . youre use animation and why not design the character to be more expressive . or why not just film it all with real actor . they certainly could have . we a people know all too well how we walk and talk and interact with thing . see it on the screen do unconvincingly be not impressive . caricature do convincingly be all the more believable and a the incredibles have prove . the result of the polar express now be a if they take corps of dead child and turn them into puppet . theyre move and talk and but where the heart . where the soul . that what be see on the screen . ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh . this movie be so horrible . there a scene early in the movie where the boy take a girl train ticket from her seat because she get up and leave it . he want to give it to her but you sit there go why . just leave it . she come back . he of course lose the ticket and adventure ensues . and then there a boy who stick in the back of the train all the time and and they bring him hot chocolate and but he can not come up and join the rest of the kid . and then there this annoying know it all kid with the voice of a 35 year old . it all so very disturb . oh and there song . one girl go into the back of the train where the lonely kid be . he sing a song to himself . and then she interrupt and join in . they end the song a theyre hold hand and look into each others eye a if they be lover . very awkward . i would not even go into detail about the song about serve hot chocolate while waiter dance around the train . keep it hot keep it hot . the one scene where tom hanks slide on his knee with his arm stretch up in the air have to be one of the most memorably bad scene in the history of bad scene . i have to stop now or i will just kill myself . i need to watch something crappy to cleanse the palette . yes . crappy be well than the polar express . the one thing about train and it doesn not matter where youre go and what matter be decide to get on . don not get on this one . for the love of god and i have decide for you . this be just another film take from a child book stretch incredibly thin into movie form . it happen with the grinch and the cat in the hat and those be horrible also . but who can blame them . i bet if i take the book and the berenstein bear too much junk food and and turn that into a feature film and it would probably be pretty dull also . but at least . there would be a story and a point and which be what the polar express be so lacking of .