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		List Price: $34.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 1959 Released: October 28, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: G (General Audience) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/28/2008 Rating: G

Description of The Polar Express Presented in 3-D [Blu-ray]:
Destined to become a holiday perennial, The Polar Express also heralded a brave new world of all-digital filmmaking. Critics and audiences were divided between those who hailed it as an instant classic that captures the visual splendor and evocative innocence of Chris Van Allsburg's popular children's book, and those who felt that the innovative use of "performance capture"--to accurately translate live performances into all-digital characters--was an eerie and not-quite-lifelike distraction from the story's epic-scale North Pole adventure. In any case it's a benign, kind-hearted celebration of the yuletide spirit, especially for kids who have almost grown out of their need to believe in Santa Claus. Tom Hanks is the nominal "star" who performs five different computer-generated characters, but it's the visuals that steal this show, as director Robert Zemeckis indulges his tireless pursuit of technological innovation. No matter how you respond to the many wonders on display, it's clear that The Polar Express represents a significant milestone in the digital revolution of cinema. If it also fills you with the joy of Christmas (in spite of its Nuremberg-like rally of frantic elves), so much the better. --Jeff Shannon

The Polar Express Presented in 3-D [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Some Things Are Better Left Alone
2009-12-22 - I have owned the book upon which the movie was based since it was first published. It was in our home before it received the Caldecott Award and I have read it to my baby daughter every year since it was published. She and I hear the bell and we always will. There are few books that compare favorably with this one.

The movie is something else again. The film maintains the general story line of the book while complicating a sweet and engaging story in a manner that is neither necessary nor appropriate. It takes less than ten minutes to read the perfect story and it takes ten times that for the the movie to run. The book never fails to maintain an interest level from start to finish and the movie does not.

Get the book, read it to your baby girl on the evening of December 23, watch her eyes grow wide, read The Night Before Christmas to her on Christmas Eve and again watch her eyes. Listen with her for the ringing of the bell and you will hear it. And, you will see it in her eyes and she will see it in yours.

Beautiful story a great Christmas movie
2009-12-21 - I grew up reading this book and bought the dvd as soon as it came out. Now as I am a mother this movie is a favorite for my whole family. It is perfect for my 4yr old who loves the magic of Santa and my 2 yr old who is obsessed with trains. It is great to have a movie that our whole family can watch and enjoy. I think this is the perfect addition to any families Christmas movie list!

Great movie but the 3-D sucks
2009-12-19 - We bought this for our kids thinking that watching it in 3-D would be AWESOME but were sorely disappointed. Barely any of the movie actually showed up as being 3-D. We darkened the room to see if that would help and we adjusted the contrast as suggested but it still didn't help. Thankfully, there was a regular version in the box as well so we stopped the 3-D one and popped in the original. Much better.

Do yourself a favor and stick to the non-3-D version!

2D is better than 3D
2009-12-16 - Not sure if it's my equipements, but I bought 2 different 3D movies (Polar Express and Journey to the Center of the Earth), they both look very colorless in the 3D version. First, when you slap on the 3D glasses (and I bought the quality 3D plastic glasses, not the paper glasses given with the movie box), the red eye looks dark, like a blind eye. You can only see out of the blue eye. When we adjust the brightness/contrast, you can see more with the red eye, but the movie appears not as vividly. The 2D version shows much better color. And this 3D version is nothing like the 3D in the theater when we saw this at IMAX. We could see the "golden ticket" flying in front of your face. This home-version 3D doesn't do that. It's very barely 3D in our opinion.

Fantastic
2009-12-14 - Ok, lets stop the whinning about the 3D effects. Turn up the brightness of your hd tv.sit back and shut up & enjoy the movie. No it's nothing like the theater version of 3D that I agree, but this is tv folks and by the way, at it's best. If you were honest on your own review than you do know that when you purchased this 3D version it came with a 2d version as well. I never once heard those people mention that in there reviews. Hmm makes me wonder if they ever purchased the Blu ray version..I ejoyed it in 3D as well. It is what it is. A great movie in 3D and in 2DIf your not happy with the 3D, than plop in the disc 2 and watch it in 2D, it's just that simple folks! Watch it and become a kid again!