This is Scorsese’s first film shot in 3D and it was released in the US on 23 November 2011, with distribution by Paramount Pictures in the US.
Hugo Cabret is a boy who has ended up as an orphan living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in the early 1930s. When Hugo encounters a broken automaton, an eccentric girl, and the cold reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a fantastic adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
The film so far has received very positive reviews. It has, so far, received a Metacritic score of 85/100 based on the reviews of 25 professional critics, as well as 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four-out-the-four stars saying "Hugo is unlike any other film Martin Scorsese has ever made, and yet possibly the closest to his heart: a big-budget, family epic in 3-D, and in some ways, a mirror of his own life. We feel a great artist has been given command of the tools and resources he needs to make a movie about — movies.
Hugo Cabret is a boy who has ended up as an orphan living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in the early 1900s. When Hugo encounters a broken automaton, an eccentric girl, and the cold reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a fantastic adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
Hugo is shooting for the stars, and doing so with an early positive critic reception (96% on Rotten Tomatoes as of publication). Competing with the other highly anticipated family movies this weekend, The Muppets and Arthur Christmas, Hugo appears to be neck and neck. Maybe having the Scorsese name attached has something to do with it?
"Yes, Hugo is a family film and, yes, your children and your inner child stand to be enraptured, but the family Scorsese really made this for is the 100-year-old tribe of watchers in the dark."
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