&#39;Polar Express&#39; Brings Risky New Animation to Film
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Even at a hefty cost of around $165 million to make &quot;The Polar Express,&quot; director Robert Zemeckis thinks an innovative new animation technique he used may have saved the Warner Bros.
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Gripping moments abound in âArctic Tale,â a new film exploring the challenges facing polar bears and walruses at the top of the world.
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Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of the children&#39;s classic The Polar Express, is a low-tech kind of guy. He prefers the feeling of pastels and paper
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1. The 76ers and Warner Bros., as part of the NBA&#39;s Read to Achieve program, hosted an advance screening Thursday of the upcoming Tom Hanks film, The Polar Express.
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Sure, The Polar Express might feature some groundbreaking   animation techniques and a heaping helping of Tom Hanks. But, as far as   the neighborhood megaplex was concerned, the 'toon wasn't that   incredible.
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To see something they have never seen before should be every moviegoer&#39;s greatest hope. It&#39;s one of the chief reasons why true movie buffs are constantly seeking out new kinds of films; it can be entertaining
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There are a lot of remarkable things about &quot;The Polar Express.&quot; Most strikingly, it&#39;s a visually stunning film, creating a world that is full of childlike wonder with a tinge of off-kilter creepiness.
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Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the big screen.
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It&#39;s bit disconcerting to see a digitally animated version of Tom Hanks in the new holiday film &quot;The Polar Express.&quot;.
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Itâs hard not to like The Polar Express, a feel-good movie, with some great animated effects and even four or five different voice characterizations by Tom Hanks, but it is also hard to like yet another spin on the kid-getting-too-old for-Santa tale.
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Tom Hanks used experimental technology to morph into a little boy, a train conductor, a hobo and Santa Claus for the new Christmas adventure The Polar Express.
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When itâs good, which is most of the time, âThe Polar Expressâ suggests a Christmasy version of âWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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It's not just The Polar Express that's pulling into the theatrical station this season.
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The Polar Express: Childrenâs fantasy. Starring Tom Hanks and Nona Gaye. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. (Rated G. 93 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.
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You have to give Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks movie studio, credit for trying to be original. He had a vision to lend DreamWorks&#39; brilliant animation team (&quot;Shrek,&quot; &quot;Shrek 2
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The latest movies to spark political controversy are two animated family films, 'The Incredibles,' and 'Polar Express.'
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It&#39;s unlikely that anyone would have made a movie such as Ladder 49 before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Rather than piling on special effects, this down-to-earth