Rating: PG for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smokingMoral Rating: Good
Primary Audience: Kids Family Teens Adults
Genre: Family Adventure Mystery Adaptation 3D
Length: 2 hr. 7 min.
Year of Release: 2011
Hugo is based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
Hugo is a young boy whose mother is dead. He is being raised by his father who is a clockmaker. His father works at a museum in Paris and finds a wonderful old mechanical piece. It is an automaton (self-operating machine) man. It is broken, but the boy and his father begin to fix it.
One day, Hugo receives a surprise visit from his drunk Uncle Claude who tells him there was a fire at the museum. His father is dead, and he is to come live at the train station and work with his uncle as a clock apprentice. The only item Hugo takes is the automaton.
After a while, his uncle does not come home, and Hugo secretly continues to care for the clocks in the train station. He is constantly stealing food to feed himself, while keeping out of the way of the Station Inspector. He also steals parts from the toy shop run by Georges Méliès and befriends his goddaughter, Isabelle. Eventually, Georges catches Hugo stealing parts and makes him work at the toy store as repayment. Hugo never gives up his quest to repair the broken automaton, in the hopes that it will reveal a message from his father. When he finally repairs it, it leads him back to the unlikeliest source.
Hugo is a young boy whose mother is dead. He is being raised by his father who is a clockmaker. His father works at a museum in Paris and finds a wonderful old mechanical piece. It is an automaton (self-operating machine) man. It is broken, but the boy and his father begin to fix it.
One day, Hugo receives a surprise visit from his drunk Uncle Claude who tells him there was a fire at the museum. His father is dead, and he is to come live at the train station and work with his uncle as a clock apprentice. The only item Hugo takes is the automaton.
After a while, his uncle does not come home, and Hugo secretly continues to care for the clocks in the train station. He is constantly stealing food to feed himself, while keeping out of the way of the Station Inspector. He also steals parts from the toy shop run by Georges Méliès and befriends his goddaughter, Isabelle. Eventually, Georges catches Hugo stealing parts and makes him work at the toy store as repayment. Hugo never gives up his quest to repair the broken automaton, in the hopes that it will reveal a message from his father. When he finally repairs it, it leads him back to the unlikeliest source.
For parents to consider
Hugo is rated PG for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smoking. In a quick flashback, Hugo's father is shown dying in a fire. Throughout the film, Hugo references the absence of his father and the hurt he feels as a result of it. Hugo steals toys and food at the beginning of the film. There are several intense actions sequences involving Hugo running from a policeman. Because of the setting, 1930s Paris, people smoke throughout the film, but not the children.
-Taken from Christianity Today and Christiananswer.net (Patty Moliterno)
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