Polar Express

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1274b8110.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="273" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> Polar Express</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="774" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 172 WIDTH="762"><div> For some reason some critics didn't warm to this movie like some other recent animations, but we loved it.  It was a kids movie and if adults want to see it, they should leave their adultness at home.  Unlike some of the general rated movies these days there was no adult humour interwoven into it.  It was about the magic of Santa Claus and lots of adults seem to have lost that magic.  As a <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" >CGI (Computer Generated Images)</FONT> movie, it is well made and true to the look of the pictures in the book [So Kyra, who has read it, tells me].  Roger Ebert, who actually gave it an 'A' rating, gives it credit by saying: <I>"There's a deeper, shivery tone, instead of the mindless jolliness of the usual Christmas movie."  </I>In the end there are some good lessons.  One of them is that we must believe, and we should, not only in Santa Claus, but especially in the Christ child whose birth we celebrate this season and is the real reason for it.  This is a movie for everyone and should be enjoyed on the big screen!</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 51 WIDTH="762"><div> Lutz's Rating <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">          Rio's Rating  <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Judy's Rating <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         Kyra's Rating  <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 65 WIDTH="762"><div> Storyline From Yahoo:  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="arial" >Believing in Santa Claus isn't easy when all of your friends and family insist he's just make-believe. A boy's faith is rewarded one Christmas Eve when he's awakened by a steam train that pulls up in front of his house and takes him and other children to the North Pole to meet Santa. It's all CGI (Computer Generated Images), based upon live-action motion-capture actors. </FONT></div> <div> <B>Ratings: Critics B   Users B</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>