Movie: The Polar Express

I wasn't sure I would like this movie with Tom Hanks doing 20 voices (not really 20, but feels like that), in a kinda cartoon.

It's not the best movie in the world, but it's not the worst Christmas one ever either.

It starts with a narrator (Tom Hanks) telling his story about when he was a boy and he was beginning to fail to know the meaning of Christmas and thus didn't really get why he was celebrating it. His spirit of Christmas was failing.

One night on a Christmas eve, he goes to sleep and wakes soon to the sound of a train very nearby. Now to me, that wouldn't have woken me up, but that's because I'm used to that sound. Maybe not the train sitting at my house waiting for me to look and come out. Confused, he grabs his robe and rips his poket (this is actually pretty important) and gets aboard the Polar Express.

The conductor is also played by Tom Hanks and he is there to punch tickets, he punctures weird letters into the tickets that aren't quite understood yet. There are other children on the train as well. A little African American girl, a nerd, and a shy kid are the other main kids. When tickets are being punched, the little girl is missing her ticket and the conductor takes her away

They go through amazing adventures going to the North Pole. One of which when the boy goes to bring the little girl's ticket to the conductor, as he fears she will be thrown off the train. He climbs on the top of the train to walk across and meets a strange man on top (again, played by Tom Hanks) who talks to him and also gives him a ride to the engine train.

When he gets there and give the conductor the girl's ticket, there is trouble, the train is on ice. Left, right, left, right, forward, to get to the train tracks across the frozen lake.

Eventually they get to the North Pole. When they get there, the four kids kinda get side tracted by a sound they hear. They end up finding the Naughty and Nice room, and the presents room. Through the process of Santa's Workshop they end up in the top of Santa's bag. When they get down, they have to pick who gets the first present of Christmas. Not hard to figure out who it is and he picks a bell on the reindeer, the sound they had heard (that at first he did not) When he believed, he could hear.

When he gets back onto the train, he's already lost the bell, that dang pocket. Anyway, he wakes up on Christmas morning and finds a small present left for him... his bell. The parents can't hear the bell, but he and his sister could hear it, and he says that at some point his sister could no longer hear it, but he never stopped hearing the bell.