STARRING : Asa Butterfield, Sascha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley,Choloe´Grace Moretz, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Jude LawRay Winstone
STORY: This is Martin Scorsese’s magic in 3D. And to say it simply, it is a good movie for anyone looking for a good movie to watch. Martin Scorsese is not known to make family movie, involving imaginative kids and magic keys, but there you go, now we have Hugo, adapted from the very popular book by Brian Selznic The Invention of Hugo Cabret. This movie is magic and in a very basic way, good cinema.
REVIEWS: This story is not merely 3D. It is 3D in the very core. Scorsese weaves a spell of history, where he recreates Paris detailed and defined where Melies´was putting together the very first movie studio to make the iconic Trip to the Moon. From the story of a child running from the station inspector, to meeting a friend to share secrets with, to discovering his father’s invention the whole movie is a topsy-turvy roller-coaster 3D journey to the birth of cinema and re-visiting the wonder that it was and the dreams that cinema brought.
This is enough to enthrall anyone with a squat of love for cinema. What falls short is well, Sascha Baron Cohen, who supposedly Hugo is frightened of. Maybe his background of comedy is not going to leave him so easily. He ends up looking comic, at times even silly. It can be understood that a child’s fear is never very rational, however Baron Cohen’s character looked comical even from a child’s perspective. What is also missed is a good child actor. Asa Butterfield is great, however I guess it is not difficult to remember Haley Joel Osment, the kid from A.I Artficial Intelligence and The Sixth Sense, and many others. An actor like that would have seriously heightened the film.
This is enough to enthrall anyone with a squat of love for cinema. What falls short is well, Sascha Baron Cohen, who supposedly Hugo is frightened of. Maybe his background of comedy is not going to leave him so easily. He ends up looking comic, at times even silly. It can be understood that a child’s fear is never very rational, however Baron Cohen’s character looked comical even from a child’s perspective. What is also missed is a good child actor. Asa Butterfield is great, however I guess it is not difficult to remember Haley Joel Osment, the kid from A.I Artficial Intelligence and The Sixth Sense, and many others. An actor like that would have seriously heightened the film.
All in all a must watch for anyone looking for good cinema.
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