Excellent movie. I took my 5-year-old kid to watch it. There were parts when she was genuinely creeped out and left her seat to sit on my lap and held on to me. She did say, however, that she'd watch it again.
Now I'm gonna watch it again. But this time I'm gonna bring with me a hot 20-year-old and see if she'd sit on my lap.
Zemeckis doesn't really consider Polar Express or Monster House traditional animated films because of the use of motion capture technology. He seems to think this is the future of "virtual actors," but they made the actors intentionally look cartoony in Monster House because people complained the characters in Polar Express were "creepy."
Other traditional cel animated features have used rotoscoping, which is a spiritual precursor to motion capture in 3d features, so to me it's just a tool you still have to create the characters and color the world like any animated feature.
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