Martin Scorsese, a man synonymous with movie gold has decided to tread the waters of 3-D. Has it worked? Hugo is a movie unlike any other with imagination twists, imagination bends, and imagination even coming out at you. The movie is based off a 550-page book called, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, where most of its thematic elements come from. The book is generally filled with black and white pictures with few inserts of several pages, explaining what goes on in between for the characters. Imagination was necessary for some parts. The movie are the pictures in fluid motion without your imagination.
However, this movie moved and developed as fast as the book, not necessarily a bad thing but also not necessarily a good thing either depending on your view. The movie flowed well on nurturing the whole idea on each of the separate identities of the characters. It was much more than just a 3-D-PG children movie. There was complexity and dynamic in the film which separated it from “Winnie the Pooh” and “Cinderella” and made it a Martin Scorsese classic. It showed what 3-D can become and that it could be an art when put into the right hands .“Hugo,” cemented 3-D into film as a possibility and not just a pure gimmick of the industry. Overall, I give it two thumbs up!
