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A Magical Movie About Movie Magic: Review of Hugo

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When I heard that Martin Scorsese was making a movie of one of my favorite books, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I was delighted.  Then when I heard they were changing the name to Hugo (which I’m still not happy about) and shooting it in 3D, I lost faith.  I shouldn’t have worried. The story is about Hugo, an orphan boy who lives in secret rooms and passageways inside a Paris train station.  His father is dead, and the only thing Hugo has to remember him by is the mechanical man his father had been repairing right before he died.  From the pen in the automaton’s hand, it is clear...