Hugo is the latest film from Martin Scorsese and is based off the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabaret" and concerns Hugo (Asa Butterfield) who lives like a street rat and works the clocks in a Paris train station, one day he comes across a girl named Isabelle (Chole Moretz from Kick Ass) and his whole world changes.
I went into Hugo not really expecting a lot, it looked like a lot of fun from the trailer I saw but I wasn't sure myself whether the film would be any good.
To my surprise and complete delight, it was a wonderful experience, Scorsese seems to be at his most joyous in terms of his direction showing a sense of pace and excitement that we haven't seen from him since Goodfellas in 1990, there is also a wonderful cast including Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, Ray Winstone and more but the two kids Moretz and Butterfield were the highlights, sharing a wonderful chemistry and I couldn't help but fall in love with them.
The film also has a wonderful tribute to the early years of cinema ranging from Meilies, the Lumiere Brothers and even to the icons of the 1920's like Buster Keaton and Fritz Lang, those scenes are nothing short of marvellous to watch in full flight and well, you just have to see them for yourself in order for it to be fully understood.
But lastly, I also have to mention the beautiful cinematography and production design, the colours in the film and bright and clear and the world Hugo inhabits is beautifully detailed down to the smallest cog in the clock tower, oh how I wish it would take home the oscars in those fields as it really did feel like a world you would want to inhabit for yourself.
All in all, I really loved this film and after the sadness of Tintin's disappointment, this kicks off 2012 in grand style, 4 and a half out of 5.
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