The Polar Express is a festive tour de force. It's always been tradition for Sam and I to get up ridiculously early on Christmas day but it was only a few years ago that The Polar Express became our Christmas morning movie and we haven't looked back since. It's got it all; snow, songs, hot chocolate, Santa, Elves, the colour red and Tom Hanks. There is no doubt that I am extremely biased and the fact I adore it so much is solely based on the fact that we watch it just before the start of all the festive fun, but I don't see that as an inherently bad thing. You should take festive joy where you can get it.
The Polar Express
The Polar Express
The Christmas Story
The Little boy in the blue dressing gown is becoming somewhat disenfranchised with Christmas. He has a drawer full of evidence disproving the existence of Santa and does a little stupid smirk whenever he sees fake Santa's. It's not that he doesn't want to believe, he just doesn't want to be let down. Well someone hears about this kid who needs to be taught a Christmas lesson, and late into the night a steam train pulls up outside his house. Tom Hanks picks him up, taking him on a journey to the North Pole to see Santa himself. From that point on The Polar Express is a selection of giant perilous set pieces meshed together with at least five different encounters with Tom Hanks. A lot happens (as you would imagine) in to journey from some middle American town to the North Pole. The train skates across ice, nearly decimates an entire Caribou population and ascends a curly mountain. It's riveting stuff at and one point everyone drinks hot chocolate. Also a golden ticket runs with a Wolf pack. 5/5
The Voice of Christmas
TOM HANKS 5/5
The Annoying Kid At Christmas
This category as been a bit of a dud. There have been nowhere near as many annoying kids in these films as we'd hoped but lets be honest, this category was created for one kid only. That kid is the Know-it-all kids with the glasses that just doesn't shut up. People just walk away from him and he keeps nattering on about trains and regulations. He is amazing and he gets taught his lesson by simply misreading a ticket and being told so by Tom Hanks. 5/5
The Christmas Miracle
So the boy is picked up by and magical train, survives countless perils, meets the ghost of Tom Hanks, sees flocks of elves and a magical festive eleven village but all that does not sway his belief in the existence of Santa, no, a bell that does not ring is what the boy needs to allow him to say "I believe" 5/5
The Christmas Message
Faith is more important than fact when it comes to Christmas time. 5/5
Additional Points
-Tom Hanks
-The fat kid whose only line is "ELVES"
-CARIBOU
-It's Christmas time
-It's somewhat magical
-Scratch that, it's all the way Magical
-Tom Hanks
Overall Festivity Rating 100/25
Many thanks to you for taking the time to read our silly and somewhat pointless ramblings, it's been a lot of fun for the both of us. very Merry Christmas to you all and to all and goodnight.
And in the words of Tiny Tim "God bless us, everyone"
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