Hugo is a fanciful look at the life of an orphan named Hugo Cabret
(Asa Butterfield) who lives alone among the various clockwork
mechanisms in the walls of a train station after first his father
died and then his uncle. Hugo is relentlessly pursued by a
security guard who is paired with a Doberman Pincher and shamed into
performing work for a shopkeeper who Hugo allegedly stole stuff
from. Hugo's main goal in life is to restore complete
functionality to a mechanical automaton, a 19th century version of
Sonny from the movie I Robot. What secret message is the automaton
storing in it's rusted innards? Four stars.
The movie barely qualifies as iffy because it has 20 scenes of
varying degrees of violence, including 2 deaths. These scenes
include: a Doberman chasing a kid, a man crashes into people and
pushes over people while chasing a kid, a man gets gently dragged by
a train, a dog nips a man's finger, flames engulf a man and kill
him, a dog bites a man, a boy takes to smashing things, there is a
story about war, in a dream sequence, a train crashes through the
train station and almost hits a boy, the cops find a dead body, a
human characterization of the moon gets shot in the eye with a
missile, a fake dragon attacks, there is some archival footage of
war, a kid is locked in a cage, a dog chases a kid, a kid is
perilously perched on a ledge, a boy jumps in front of a train for
real and a fake train falls into a gully.
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