The Polar Express

Locations
Call Number: Blu-ray Animation Polar
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Animation Polar	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Animation Polar	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Blu-ray Disc.
Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg.
Special features: (480i or 480p Standard Definition ; Dolby Digital stereo.) Smokey and Steamer song; "You look familiar: the many Polar faces of Tom Hanks" featurette; "A genuine ticket to ride" documentary gallery includes 5 featurettes; "True inspirations: an author's adventure:" profiling Chris Van Allsburg; "Believe:" Josh Groban performs at the Greek Theatre; "Behind the scenes of Believe:" bringing a hit song to magical life in the recording studio; "Flurry of effects" gallery: 5 motion-capture sessions; "Meet the Snow Angels:" the moviemakers' Christmas memories; theatrical trailer.
Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari, Brendan King, Andy Pellick, Josh Eli, Mark Mendonca, Rolandas Hendricks.
Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor, along with the other passengers help turn Billy's crisis of faith into a journey of self-discovery.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, 1080p High Definition.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Contents: Polar Express.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

very good submitted by Meganathsaran on July 20, 2011, 3:11pm very good to watch in blu-ray

Nice submitted by awesomede16 on June 17, 2013, 1:44pm Gives the children a great feeling about christmas.

Polar Express submitted by SBNB on July 14, 2016, 9:37am Personally, I like the movie more than the book. It's a cute Christmas movie. Some of the reviews online think it's too creepy, but I don't think so, at least not anymore. Maybe the first time I watched it, I thought it was weird, but it has really grown on me. My toddler and I watched it over and over last Christmas season. She loves to "watch train", and I haven't gotten bored with it yet. Nice story, nice visuals, nice songs (I was absentmindedly singing one recently).