The Polar Express [Steelbook] (Blu-ray + DVD) G

This holiday season... believe.
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Format:  Blu-ray  (2 Discs)
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Blu-ray Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: G
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 1, 2016
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 241,851
Rating: 3/5 -- The schmaltz content gets higher and higher, as if administered through a drip feed, until by the end we are drowning in sucrose. Full Review
Guardian
Dec 4, 2014
3 stars out of 5 -- It's a technical masterpiece that is made primarily for kids...
Ultimate DVD
Apr 1, 2008
A worthy and entertaining film. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
La Nación (Argentina)
Nov 4, 2019
Director Robert Zemeckis once again harnesses a new technology to an engaging fable in this digitally animated adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's holiday tale. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 9, 2013
Rating: 3.5/5 -- The Polar Express is reminiscent of childhood classics of yore. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
Sensacine
Nov 4, 2019
The rest is easily summarized: the Polar Express arrives, Hero Boy and some other dead-eyed zombie children get onboard. . .we reach the real Santa, who exists, and drops a little silver bell from his sleigh, which the boy later finds. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 21, 2017
At some point very early in the 3-D IMAX version of The Polar Express, technology trumps banality and you helplessly surrender to the shock and awe of this big, often thunderous movie. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Dec 9, 2013

Product Description:

Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionized the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism. A landmark technique Zemeckis and his Sony Pictures Imageworks team call "Performance Capture" perfectly suits the tenor of this wondrous children's Christmas story by Chris Van Allsburg. A disillusioned little boy, just old enough to doubt the existence of Santa Claus, has the adventure of a lifetime one fateful Christmas Eve. Clad in his pajamas, he climbs aboard a magic train to the North Pole, driven by a kindly train conductor (voiced by Tom Hanks who starred in both of Zemeckis's Academy-Award winning films FORREST GUMP and CASTAWAY). Among myriad jaw-dropping moments, the train plummets brakeless through crystalline mountains in a simulated roller coaster ride. Going off the rails, skidding sideways, and snaking violently across a frozen lake, the train arrives at the North Pole (a vast, glowing city of brick buildings). At that moment, the car carrying the kids detaches and they're sent tumbling down never-ending chutes and slides until they land in the middle of Santa's Workshop. With its fascinating tale and impressive technical frolics, THE POLAR EXPRESS is destined to become both a holiday classic and a new turning point in the art of animated cinema.

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  • UPC: 883929555215
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