Polar Express

Rented Polar Express. Very disappointed. I'm a huge Robert Zemeckis fan (Forrest Gump, Contact, Back to the Future, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, What Lies Beneath), and I'm also a big admirer of Tom Hanks (his daughter went to college with me). Unfortunately, the film doesn't work. It's tedious and outright boring. Worse, it's kind of depressing. The kids don't seem to have a connection to each other or to anyone else, and it just feels like this lonely empty universe full of colors but no human connection. I didn't find it creepy like some said, but it's not a "holiday classic," unfortunately. Thumbs down.