The Polar Express

...falls into. "Couples Retreat" "Disney's A Christmas Carol" Walt Disney) Robert Zemeckis made this performance-capture ("The Polar Express") version of the Dickens holiday classic, with digital versions of Gary Oldman, Robin Wright...

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...got to put the past behind you before you can move on." Zemeckis is following this credo to the max with Disney's A Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express and Beowulf before that. A visionary rather than a traditionalist, he's more jazzed...

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...Carol': 3-D adaptation is faithful to the spirit of the 1843 original "A Christmas Carol," directed by Robert Zemeckis (who made "The Polar Express" with Tom Hanks in several roles), is a scrupulously faithful 3-D version of the...

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So what makes it unique? Zemeckis, who has pioneered this immersive technology with such films as The Polar Express and Beowulf, says this film manifests some of the more surreal descriptions from Dickens' prose. This version of the 1843...

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He flies into the past. He hurtles into the future. Zemeckis came under the spell of the technology while making Chris Van Allsburg's children's book "The Polar Express" into a movie. Actors do their peculiar magic wired to, and recorded...

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...done on film by everyone from Mickey Mouse to George C. Scott to the Muppets. What can director Robert Zemeckis ("The Polar Express") bring to the table that's new? Well, a bundle of 3-D special effects, that's for sure. And Jim Carrey...

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...version of this classic about the spirit of Christmas. Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis further develops his technology from The Polar Express, morphing actors into cartoon caricatures. Jim Carrey plays Ebenezer Scrooge as well as all three...

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...Scrooge the error of his miserly ways. The movie was shot with the same performance-capture technology director Robert Zemeckis (zuh-MEH-kihs) used on his 2004 holiday offering "The Polar Express." "Christmas Carol" came in ahead of "Polar...

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...Brown) as well as Tiny Tim. Bob Hoskins turns up as Mr. Fezziwig, among others. Zemeckis has made strides since "The Polar Express" in terms of facial expressivity. And yet I remain cold to the motion-capture genre. Or rather, it remains cold...

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