Hugo (2011) Movie Review

Storyline

Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in the 1930s in Paris. He fixes clocks and other gadgets as he learned to from his father and uncle. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his father is an automaton that doesn't work; Hugo has to find its heart-shaped key. On his adventures, he meets with a cranky old man who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and as he discovers it, the old man starts remembering his past and his significance to the world of film-making.

Review 

Long Live Scorsese

A film adventure in every sense of the word. I was propelled into Martin Scorsese's cinematic mind in a film he made for his 12 year old daughter. Everything about it speaks of love of cinema. I wept, I must confess it right here and now. I really wept. Not just for the humanity of the story but by the heart and mind of the man behind the camera. This is the same man who gave us "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Goodfellas" Every detail enriches our experience. Dante Ferreti's production design is, monumental, costumes, photography and Howard Shore's score are, quite simply, breath taking. I'm running out of superlatives and I haven't yet mentioned Sacha Baron Cohen, priceless. There is moment in which our young protagonists sneak into a movie theater and sit in amazement watching Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock. For me, to see Lloyd in the big screen as part of Martin Scorsese's latest dream, is the highest and most moving point of my movie going year.

Director: 

Martin Scorsese

Writers: 

John Logan (screenplay), Brian Selznick (book)

Stars:

 Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Christopher Lee

Genres:

 Adventure | Drama | Family | Mystery

Cast

	Ben Kingsley	...	Georges Méliès
	Sacha Baron Cohen	...	Station Inspector
	Asa Butterfield	...	Hugo Cabret
	Chloë Grace Moretz	...	Isabelle
	Ray Winstone	...	Uncle Claude
	Emily Mortimer	...	Lisette
	Christopher Lee	...	Monsieur Labisse
	Helen McCrory	...	Mama Jeanne
	Michael Stuhlbarg	...	Rene Tabard
	Frances de la Tour	...	Madame Emilie
	Richard Griffiths	...	Monsieur Frick
	Jude Law	...	Hugo's Father
	Kevin Eldon	...	Policeman
	Gulliver McGrath	...	Young Tabard
	Shaun Aylward	...	Street Kid