The Silver Screen
Movie Reviews: 'Hugo' and 'The Muppets'
With the holidays just around the corner, family films are beginning to hit the screens.
Hugo, which doubles as Martin Scorsese's first family film and his first project in 3D, is a beautiful picture in just about every way. It's lovingly designed and photographed and tells an engaging and wonderful story, while also sneaking in a brief for the director's pet cause of film preservation. Based on Brian Selznick's kid-oriented 2007, graphic novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo tells the story of the 12-year-old boy of that name (Asa Butterfield), living in the clock of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's adventure takes him to a young girl (Chloe Grace Moritz, from Let Me In and Kick Ass), and he's later introduced to the long-lost director of turn-of-the-20th-century short films. There's also a mysterious automaton and a…
Taylor Stowell
9:11 am on Saturday, November 26, 2011
I took my grand-daughter (age 8) to see "Hugo" yesterday. She liked the movie but started "squirming" at about the 1-1/2 hr. mark. Great movie albeit a trifle too long for a "family/kid" movie. Ted Stowell more ›