Hugo

I can hardly think of a better way to start the New Year in film than by watching a Scorsese piece.

Recently orphaned Hugo Cabaret was the son of a clockmaker, his father (Jude Law) dies quite suddenly one day at work and the only thing that Hugo has left to hold on to from him is a broken automaton. His father found the machine in the attic of the the museum he worked at. Bent on fixing what he and his father started, on way or another Hugo knows that he will never truly have an answer unless he finds the wind up key the mechanism needs in order to fully function.

With no parents Hugo is left to a drunken uncle that runs the clocks at the station, when her one day doesn't comeback after a drunken night out Hugo continues his work. Seemingly easy enough, he has to do it around the Orphan hating station conductor Inspector Gustav (Sacha Baron Cohen). It's a lot for a young boy who has been put in an undeserving circumstance to handle alone; fixing what he and his father started, and trying to find the key to make it run all the whilst dancing around the Inspector. But what he uncovers is more than he and new friend Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz) could have ever imagined

The only criticism I have is that though the film is meant to be set in Paris, no one was French, no signs were in French, in fact the only thing that did scream France was the glimpses of the Eiffel Tower we got to view every now and then. As well as this I thought the big mystery behind the adventure was a little to grown-up for a children's movie, though I may have found it it interesting I think the under 11s in the audience seemed a little disappointed considering its huge promise.