The Polar Express.

                                                                  The Polar Express.

I admit at first I found this movie to be a little creepy and yes I know it's 

a Tom Hanks movie and I shouldn't feel that way but it creeped me out a 

little cause of the weird animation with there faces , I'm not sure if you 

all felt that way but after I got over that the movie was good and the 

story itself was amazing but for me the animation was weird but it 

instantly became a Christmas classic that the whole world loves so lets 

get into it, Here's the story:

On the night of Christmas Eve, 1956, a boy becomes skeptical of the 

existence of Santa Claus. Struggling to fall asleep, he witnesses a steam 

locomotive arrive on the street, and goes outside to examine it. The 

conductor introduces the train as the Polar Express, bound for the North 

Pole. Initially reluctant, the boy jumps aboard as the train departs.

In a passenger car, he meets a spirited girl and a smart aleck boy. The 

train picks up a boy named Billy, who also declines to board, but changes 

his mind, and the boy pulls the emergency brake to allow Billy to board, 

which is noticed by the conductor. As Billy sits alone in the 

train's observation car, hot chocolate is served in the passenger car, and 

the girl stows away a cup for Billy. As she and the conductor cross to the 

dining car, the boy notices that she left her unpunched ticket, but loses 

hold of the ticket between the cars when he attempts to return it. The 

ticket reenters the passenger car, but not before the conductor notices 

its absence and escorts the girl back to the rear car.

When the know-it-all claims the conductor will throw the girl from the 

train, the boy recovers the ticket and dashes to the dining car in search 

of the conductor, climbing onto the roof. He meets a hobo camping on 

the roof, who offers him coffee and discusses the existence of Santa 

Claus and ghosts. The hobo skis with the boy along the tops of the cars 

toward the coal tender, where the hobo disappears right at Flat Top 

Tunnel.

In the locomotive's cab, the boy discovers that the girl has been made to 

supervise driving the train while the engineers Steamer and Smokey 

replace the headlight.

The boy applies the brakes and the train stops coming across a herd 

of caribou blocking the tracks. The conductor pulls Smokey's beard, 

causing him to let out animal-like noises, and the caribou herd clears the 

tracks.

The train continues on at extreme speed, and the throttle's split 

pin (cotter pin) shears off, causing the train to accelerate uncontrollably 

down a 179-degree grade and onto a frozen lake. Smokey uses his 

hairpin to repair the throttle as the train drifts across the ice to realign 

with the tracks moments before the ice breaks.

The boy returns the girl's ticket for the conductor to punch, and as the 

three return to the passenger car, the Hobo uses a Scrooge puppet, 

taunting the boy and calling him a doubter.

The train arrives at the North Pole, where the conductor announces that 

one of the passengers will be chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas 

from Santa himself.

Discovering Billy still alone in the observation car, the girl and boy 

persuade him to come along, but the boy accidentally uncouples the car, 

sending it back along the line to a railway turntable in Santa's workshop.

The children make their way through an elf command center and a gift 

sorting office before being dumped into a giant sack of presents, where 

they discover that the know-it-all has stowed away, and the elves escort 

them out as Santa arrives.

A bell flies loose from the galloping reindeer's reins; the boy initially 

cannot hear it ring, until he finds it within himself to believe. He shows 

the bell to Santa, who selects him to receive the first gift of Christmas. 

Santa agrees to let him keep the bell, and the boy places it in his robe 

pocket.

The rear car is returned to the train as the children board to return 

home, but the boy discovers that he lost the bell through the hole in his 

pocket.

He returns home and awakens Christmas morning to find a present 

containing the bell. He and his younger sister Sarah joyfully ring the bell, 

while their parents, not believing in Santa, don't hear the bell and say 

that the bell is broken.

The boy reflects on his friends and sister growing deaf to the bell over 

the years as their belief faded. However, the bell still rings for him, as it 

will "for all who truly believe".

See the story is great but it is really hard for me to get over the creepy 

looking animation but once you get past that you will enjoy the movie.  

Let me know what you thought about it, did you find the animation 

creepy like me or am I the only one.