Hugo

Starring: Butterfield, Asa and Moretz, Chloe

Product Description

UNLOCK THE SECRET... Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese directs this audacious adaptation of Brian Selznick's award winning novel, a magical, mysterious adventure and an exhilarating ode to cinema itself.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 097363581444
• Release Date: September 2012
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Paramount-Sds
• Director: Scorsese, Martin
• Starring: Butterfield, Asa, Moretz, Chloe
• Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

Wherever Hugo there you are.

This is a unique combination of the way the story is told as an interweaving of a fictional protagonist to tell the story of a real-life person. I have seen the formula of interweaving reality with a fictional character before; one of the most famous is the book “Sophie's World” by Jostein Gaarder. Anyway, the basic story is of a child who loses his father and thinks that his father left him a message that will change his life. In the process of perusing the message, he meets Georges Méliès, who may just have a message to change the reader’s life. The book this film is based on incorporates a lot of pictures to help tell the story. This is innovative and holds your attention. However, it did not translate well into the film as the film was slow and dragged a lot in scenes and even dialogue. They lost the continuity and purpose of the story by incorporating the station inspector's story, which was a minor part of the book. It was too slapstick. What were great graphics in the book translated into almost cartoonish graphics in the film? However, they did an excellent presentation of how the original films were designed to show us the stuff that dreams were made of. The flat-screen version was well enough. The 3D graphics were sort of gimmicky, sort of looking through a stereoscope; however, they were several fields deep. So, we have some unnecessary stories added and some slow, dragging parts, but in the end, the feel of the original book shines through.