Hugo

   
  Hugo is the latest film from director Martin Scorsese.  It is the story of a young orphan named Hugo who lives in the walls of a Parisian train station and has assumed the job of maintaining all of the station's clocks.  He meets a filmmaker named Georges Melies, played by Ben Kingsley, and together they spend the movie figuring out how they can help one another.  This is the first movie I've seen in 3-D since the 1980s and I will say that it was visually captivating.  I don't have anything really negative to say about this movie.  It was a good story that was well acted and well directed.  Scorsese uses this film as a way of teaching us about an important time in film history and I must say that I enjoyed the lesson.  
  While I can't say anything negative about the film, I also can't say that I truly loved it either.  I saw it last week and I haven't thought about it once since sitting down to write about it now.  The 3-D was cool, especially in the main clock tower sequence near the end of the film.  I don't traditionally like kids movies, with a few exceptions (Wall-E being one of them).
  A lot of times, when I am trying to quantify how much I liked a film, I think about how badly I want to see it again.  I would say that I liked this movie for what it was and would certainly recommend it to anyone who loves good, safe storytelling that the whole family can enjoy together.  I have no desire, however, to see it again.