Hugo (2011/II)

Hugo (2011/II) Movie Reviews
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Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer

Director: Martin Scorsese

Rating: PG

Running Time: 127 min.

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret stars Asa Butterfield, as an orphan boy who lives in a Parisian train station. Sent to live with his drunken uncle after his father's death in a fire, Hugo learned how to wind the massive clocks that run throughout the station. When the uncle disappears one day, Hugo decides to maintain the clocks on his own, hoping nobody will catch on to him squatting in the station. His natural aptitude for engineering leads him to steal gears, tools, and other items from a toy-shop owner who maintains a storefront in the station. Hugo needs these purloined pieces in order to rebuild a mechanical man that was left in the father's care at the museum -- the restoration was a project father and son did together. When Georges (Ben Kingsley), the old man who runs the toy stand, catches on to the thievery, he threatens to turn Hugo over to the station's lone police officer (Sacha Baron Cohen, who makes every effort to send any parentless child in the station to the orphanage. But Hugo's run-in with Georges leads to a friendship with the elderly gentleman's goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), who unknowingly possesses the last item Hugo needs to make the mechanical man work again.

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  • Nov 07, 2011 04:17 am

    Bruce said: A

    3D raised to the level of art. Wonderful story wonderfully performed.

  • Nov 24, 2011 12:06 am

    HOLLY said: B

    Hugo is a visually stunning movie by storytelling master, Martin Scorsese. It has everything one would need to make a great film; great story, big budget and a great cast but in this case one of the pluses is actually a minus and that is th

  • Nov 24, 2011 12:11 pm

    Muhammad said: A

    I always like fantasy-family movie like Hugo and City of Ember

  • Nov 29, 2011 02:42 am

    Richard said: A

    First movie since Avitar I thought 3D actually enhanced. Very good movie. Original.

  • Dec 03, 2011 03:03 pm

    Moore said: D

    It's interesting to hear reviewers throw around words like masterpiece. I reserve that word that films that excel across all mediums - Art direction, costume, acting, sets, but most importantly, story. For me, story is king, and the scrip

  • Dec 28, 2011 06:16 am

    Richard said: B

    Good movie.

  • Jan 20, 2012 05:34 pm

    Kevin said: B

    Watching Hugo in 3D and it is visually appealing. Its a very nice story and the performances solid. I expected to see more of Hugo the robot or automaton but the movie was more of a human story rather than a high tech robot or machine story.

  • Mar 13, 2012 04:14 am

    Joshua "LF" said: A

    "Easily the best I've seen this year."

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