are creating here is the next level in motion picture making, that this is where's it's heading to. They want you to think that what Zemeckis & Co. But don't tell the promotional department at Warner Bros. So, what's going on here? Motion-capture is what the big hub-bub is all about. If you can't make believable characters and put them in a likable story, it's like putting paint on poo. But after reading about 500 visual-effects specialists working for three years, and about 72 cameras capturing Tom Hanks' movements, 194 "jewels" on the actor's body for recording thus movements into the computer (152 on the face alone), and $164 million spent on the movie, I just have to say: SO WHAT? So what if you spent so much on the technology for this film. Why, with all the millions pumped into the production of this technological "masterpiece," do all the children still look so creepy? It's ironic, don't you think? I mean, you read Newsweek's article on the film and you'd believe that this was the second coming of filmmaking.
Should I dismiss THE POLAR EXPRESS solely on the fact that it's not really animation even though it's purporting to be an "animated" film? Is it really animation, after all? And why in the heck do all the characters look so bizarre and so unconvincing? Read: it's rather thin.īut being an animator, there was this immense build-up of animosity towards this film and what it meant to the feature animation community. It was, after all, based on a children's book, and so the story gets stretched far and wide in many places. But was there enough there to push? I dunno.
I do feel that there may have been far too much emphasis placed on the technology, promoting all the hoopla about the motion-capture mumbo-jumbo in recording Tom Hanks' movements and his "acting," and not enough interest pushing the story and characters. I usually have a large grey area for movies, and this falls right in the middle for me. It's got some great visuals and some wonderful camera work by director Robert Zemeckis. I mean, the film as a whole is not so bad. I've delayed posting my review of THE POLAR EXPRESS for some time now because I've been so perplexed by this film.
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