The first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’ digital banquet The Polar Express draw inspiration from Chris Van Allsburg’s wonderful Christmas novel of the same name. Beginning with the late-night arrival of the pinch-me-I’m-dreaming locomotive and ending with the narrator’s ringing of a symbolic bell, these whimsical bookend scenes find the perfect holiday ambiance that wraps us in a cozy blanket of adolescent wonder.
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