I remember watching this movie on a projector at school. I even remember when the hot chocolate scene came by, the teachers gave us cups of hot chocolate. This movie was fun for what it was, but looking back at it, it is pretty uncanny valley.
@@forrestmitchell0 no,it was just a "fun" thing for the kids to do on the day before break my middle school gave out permission slips so we can watch Elf I'm not kidding
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I once heard a theory that apparently the conductor and the hobo are different future selves of the hero boy. Apparently the hobo is him if he grew up not believing, and the conductor is him when he does believe. I don’t know, it was a long time ago, but it’s a pretty bonkers theory honestly
I kinda prefer to think of the hobo as Jack Frost that would explain his mischievous attitude and his claim to be the king of the North Pole and his ability to vanish into snow
The closing monologue from Tom Hanks, then immediately followed by the song "Believe" when the credits roll; It motivates me into the Christmas spirit each time I watch.
11:16 Someone told me that the reason the poor kid didnt get any presents is because Santa did give him presents. However, his parents would hide his presents before the poor kid could wake up so that they could pawn them off and get money. That’s why when he does find his present in the movie he refuses to let it go. He doesn’t want it get taken away.
14:39 Maybe cause Christmas movies don't really encourage you to think much but I didn't realize how depressing it must be to live in a world were Santa is real but still not getting any presents
@@maui.tech.0415he did the hobo, dad, santa, and the boy i believe, the motion for the kid i believe not the voice. For sure santa, the hobo, dad, and conductor
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I'm glad someone finally called out how impossibly terrifying the animation of the film is. Now my childhood soul can rest in peace.
and they played it _every single year_ at school 😭 i would put my head on my desk and cover my eyes with my arms. that movie _still_ scares the shit out of me and it’s been a full 20yrs since i was in elementary school
The part where the kids walk thru Santa’s workshop or whatever always felt creepy asf to me. I think it’s all the weird angles, made me feel like they were being hunted or stalked lmao
The fact he didn’t mention the scene where they drifted a train on ice is extremely unappreciated, I repeat DRIFTED A TRAIN I cannot stress how cool this was for me as a kid
This movie was amazing! I love how they show the kids' different walks of life of what Christmas means to them. Like Billy who isn't financially fortunate. He mentions that Christmas doesn't work out for him. He doesn't know that his parents can't afford decent gifts for him so he believes Christmas doesn't work out well.
same, i never had a problem with the animation in the film its great for early cgi 3d animation also it stands out more than those ones copying pixar's style i love the songs both hot chocolate & when christmas comes to town and yeah, the different perspectives from the children and it just really showing the polar express train itself and when billy got so excited seeing a present for him, wanting to hold onto it and bring it home. i just rewatched this movie and its still great even if im a lot older its also so sad the voice actor of the train conducters passed away after the film was published :(
Fun Fact: The voice of Hero Boy (the main character) was voiced by Daryl Sabara, aka Juni Cortez from Spy Kids! Also, Josh Hutcherson did some of the motion capture for Hero Boy.
Was just about to comment this. But I find it odd how Alex gives a shoutout to Mandark's VA but not the MC's in the movie. Because while the former VA has an iconic and recognizable voice I keep seeing Daryl Sabara where I didn't expect him. Like in Rob Zombie's Halloween he was the kid that bullied young Michael before ending up as the first kill in the movie.
Yeah, it's a common misconception that Tom Hanks was the kid's voice. Only because he IS credited as the voice of "Hero Boy", but the Adult Voice. Basically the narrator.
I used to watch this movie every Christmas Eve as a kid, for like 6-7 years and even tho I don't keep that "tradition" anymore, I ll never get tired of it
I've always loved this movie 😊 & I always interpreted the fact that Tom Hanks played the four central pivotal characters, the boy, the conductor, the tramp & santa, as being a reflection of four stages of Belief 😃 the Boy is Questioning Belief as he gets older, the Tramp is Mocking Non or Disbelief as we tend to do as we get even older, the Conductor is Responsible Belief as an adult keeps it so the next generation can continue ("I have a job to do, we have to see Santa & we have to do it on time!" 😄) & Santa is Complete Total Belief ("I do believe, I do!") 😁 gives it some nice context & subtext, in my opinion 😃
I was 14 when this came and immediately clocked the animation as waaaaay too uncanny valley to handle. So of course my kid asks to watch it every xmas and I need to just go sit in the other room while it's on.
The puppet scene (the one where the main character gets trapped in a train car full of marionettes.) was absolutely terrifying. Also, this movie was like a horror movie and a fever dream mixed together.
Fun Fact: when the train arrives at the North Pole and the elves are marching along side the rail cars, if you look really close towards the back of the car, you can actually spot an elf that isn’t moving at all, and it’s just gliding along the ground. Once you see it, you can’t un-see it.
This is genuinely one of my favorite Christmas movies purely because of the nostalgic hold it has on me. In elementary school they would play this movie every year the day before break and the would pass out styrofoam cups of hot chocolate and sandwich bags of popcorn. Also, I love how none of the characters actually have names outside of Billy, who isn’t even the protagonist.
I lived this movie as a kid, it was the ultimate Christmas spirit movie. The music brought chills down my spine, I would even listen to the soundtrack throughout the entire year on the way to and back from school.
Isn't it heavily implied that Billy comes from a poor family? he lives on the other side of the tracks in a dilapidated house. When he returns, he not only gets his present, but his entire house is cleaned up and decorated!
@@GabePlaysYT But Santa's okay with letting Billy have no presents and a terrible house for the first ten years of his life? Santa could have done something about it the whole time and didn't? There must be millions of Billys getting nothing on xmas morning every year in this universe lol
@MagicCardboardBox That something that always bugged when I was little: since Santa is real, but most people don't believe in him, then who the hell do they think is leaving gifts under their tree? The easter bunny?
The Polar Express is my traditional Christmas Eve movie. I remember being 11 and seeing it in theaters, and just being struck in awe. Didn't help that I had a "train phase" since 2000 and loved the visuals of the book.
For me, i genuinely love this movie. I was in elementary school when i first watched it and i loved it. This is my favorite Christmas movie. It makes feel like a child again. It holds a special place in my heart. Its beautiful, nostalgic, its funny, and im an adult who still believes in santa claus. This movie just breathes Christmas and it feels like pure art. I swear, theres no better feeling than being a kid either on Christmas eve or Christmas day and its cold outside, but relaxing inside at night and you have the polar express on the TV and you have a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows and maybe even a candy cane and you have presents under your Christmas tree. It just feels so heavenly.
This movie was playing in the library at my school and they have 4 tvs that are connected and it was so scary. Like the part where we first meet the girl or whenever there was a closeup of someone, it was terrifying
This movie is so confusing lol. For example my mom watched it alone a few years ago and she told me she loved the movie. This year I asked her if she wanted to watch it again and she told me "that movie with the really weird animation ? I don't like it." I SWEAR she told me how much she loved the movie but she can only remember how creepy and weird the animation was lol. And for me, I was always scared of this movie but I also secretely want to see it every year.
I never watched this movie as a kid because I thought it was boring but I'm so glad you made a video about it because now as an adult, I appreciate it more.
Rewatched it with my girlfriend a few days ago since we actually haven’t watched it since we were like Early teenager’s and both agreed to rewatch it for the holidays, And good GOD!!! Me and her were looking at each other like As soon as they survive a Near Death experience another one comes and shows up for the movie till the end where the kid finally gets home safe💀💀💀
5:40 The thing that really amuses me about the joke Alex made is that the Italian voice actor of this boy in this movie is the same voice actor of Sheldon Cooper.
13:19 This is basically everyone in the WWE Community Creations, but also, strangely enough, I believe this to be how Santa exits his shop as the elves cheer like they're at a WWE Event.
yesterday i lost my mind seeing a ai honda ad playing on the tv, the clouds were flipping out why the actual heck cant they afford real cgi and how did they see nothing wrong with it
This will always be my favourite Christmas film. According to my parents, it was the first film I ever sat through in it’s entirety without giving up, and I watch it every year at least three times as it’s a household tradition. I’ve always found it a cozy and fun film, and the motion capture has never bothered me in the slightest.
I… LITERALLY watched your self video today and was like “I wonder if he’s covered the polar express” to which I was a little disappointed. I hop back on UA-cam after running a few errands and I see this video as the first video on my recommended.
I remember when this movie came out when I was in the second grade. I remember my teacher had my class write a letter to Santa, and I asked for a bell from the sleigh like in the movie. A few days later, we got letters back from Santa, and not only did I get a bell but the whole class did too.
I remember hating this movie as a kid. Never saw it in theaters as I was too young but whenever reruns started around Christmas I remember being really unnerved by it, like even as a kid I knew there was something off about it. Maybe it was just the CGI but man it put me on edge
My dad couldn’t even watch this movie thx to the uncanny valley the animation was. I mean woof. I watched this movie as a kid and somehow I liked it. Didn’t have self awareness to tell that this movie was nightmare fuel. Now I can’t watch it. Nice video.
Had a field trip to see this movie in Elementary school. I was so traumatized by the puppet scene. Was too scared to even sleep. To this day I still hate that scene 😂
Each year of Elementary school on the last day before Christmas break we would watch this movie in class. I still remeber the teacher handing our candy canes throughout the movie and hot chocolate during the Hot Chocolate scene
I successfully avoided watching this movie until my senior year of high school. My dance teacher would make our winter recital follow the plot of a Christmas movie so we had to watch it 🥲 the year before was Rudolph
I have so much nostalgia for this movie. We watched this in elementary school all the time. We also go hot coco. I also went on the polar express experience. So I rode on a train to the North Pole. Except I had to have an adult with me. Lol. We also own the book which I read a lot. So I have a lot of fond memories with this movie. I don’t remember the movie being this bad but watching it again in HS. It is so uncanny. I don’t know how I was not traumatized by this movie before but I also was in love with a lot of Tim Burton movies such as The Nightmare before Christmas or Coraline so maybe it desensitized me. Lol.
I just realized, How many of you remember watching this movie in a library getting served chocolate by your teachers back in early middle school, Cause man I’m seeing a lot of comments of others with the same experience💀💀💀
Everyone always talks about how much they love this movie but it’s always been creepy to me. When I was in High School we played Hot Chocolate in Jazz Band, only good memory I have from this movie.
9:51 yes he actually did die on the train. In a deleted scene featuring Smokey and Steamer they explain that the Hobo aka King wanted to ride for free when he was a kid, so he rode on top of the train. They then made it to flat top tunnel where he died due to the low ceiling and has haunted the train since. Flat top tunnel is the same place he helps hero boy on the ski’s. This isn’t confirmed but die to his hand always being the last to fade out I’m guessing they found his hand and found out he had died.
Loved when I was in elementary school, and they would play this before Christmas break. They gave us those bells and I remember being a bit too obsessed with it after having it lol
I'm still confused about how an 800,000+ pound pere Marquette and 13+ coaches were able to not break the ice, but a small clip was enough to crack the ice. Man I sure love this movie😂😂
Ooo boy I love this movie, and I gotta talk about this part 14:06 So you know how earlier with the Hobo talking to our main character about how “seeing is believing” and in the marionette scene where he calls him a doubter? Our main character rings this bell to hear the word “doubt” taunting him! Then! He starts to say “I believe” and he closes his eyes!! Seeing isn’t always believing and he had to close his eyes to feel within his heart that he truly believed! I love this movie, Alex Meyers, you don’t understand 😭😭
Does anyone else ever just name the kids that don't have names? Like for me, the main boy's (Hero Boy) name is Tom, the Black girl's (Hero Girl) name is Andrea, the nerd kid's name is Ned, and I may or may not have named the conducted Al.
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the puppet cart scene once. I’ve been watching this movie yearly my whole life and the only part of this movie that ever scared me was that god forsaken Scrooge puppet
Fun fact, in this scene Hero Boy’s voice actor Josh Hutcherson was doing the MoCap for this the train ride with Tom Hanks and at the part where Josh was on Tom’s shoulders Josh farted right behind Tom’s head as they were filming!😂 Tom still teases Josh about it lol!
This one definitely did feel like a fever dream but it's still one of my all time favourite Christmas movie's 😅 All the best over the holidays and i hope you get a chance to rest 😊
when I first watched the polar express it made me realise Santa wasn't real bc I saw his shadow on my stairs and it made me realise it was my dad in a bloody Santa hat... TBH the beer bootle should have given it away
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the most terrifying part of all, with the marionette puppet room on the train!
yes! I was surprised too
same
me too
Oh god the scariest part of the movie! 😂
Clearly he thought it was to scary for youtube to handle. 😏😏
I remember watching this movie on a projector at school. I even remember when the hot chocolate scene came by, the teachers gave us cups of hot chocolate. This movie was fun for what it was, but looking back at it, it is pretty uncanny valley.
They made it with swiss miss and water at my school it wasn't very pleasant
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Ew
Same exact memory! Was this like a national marketing campaign for the movie?!
@@forrestmitchell0 no,it was just a "fun" thing for the kids to do on the day before break my middle school gave out permission slips so we can watch Elf I'm not kidding
Aww, your teachers sound so sweet. What a wholesome memory.
And yet, I'll never get the "Hot Hot Hot, Hot Chocolate" song out of my head!
Real
Seen the unhinged video yet?😂
It's hilarious.
The train is flying all over the place
Zooming past other kids etc.
This was actually a choir song in my middle school! It was so fun!
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@JamelJoshua-k4p porn fish? wtf
Fun fact, Tom hanks did overtime for the extra voices and didn’t accept any extra pay
And Extra Mocap
Dang that’s wild
Wow what a nice guy, it’s almost like he didn’t go to that Epstein island 👀
Yep that's Thomas Hanks for ya.
Dudes a chomo
I once heard a theory that apparently the conductor and the hobo are different future selves of the hero boy. Apparently the hobo is him if he grew up not believing, and the conductor is him when he does believe. I don’t know, it was a long time ago, but it’s a pretty bonkers theory honestly
Mainly because Tom Hanks plays all 3 characters.
@ exactly. I’m pretty sure that’s where that theory originates from
Actually, that theory is true. It was a scrapped idea for the movie.
I kinda prefer to think of the hobo as Jack Frost that would explain his mischievous attitude and his claim to be the king of the North Pole and his ability to vanish into snow
I always thought that hobo guy was actually santa.
The closing monologue from Tom Hanks, then immediately followed by the song "Believe" when the credits roll; It motivates me into the Christmas spirit each time I watch.
That’s my favorite song in my favorite movie
The ending monologue makes me shed a tear probably the best part it was a much better movie for a kid
yes!!!
11:16 Someone told me that the reason the poor kid didnt get any presents is because Santa did give him presents. However, his parents would hide his presents before the poor kid could wake up so that they could pawn them off and get money. That’s why when he does find his present in the movie he refuses to let it go. He doesn’t want it get taken away.
Damn that’s a poor move from the parents 😂
“Someone told you” - who? Because there’s no movie trivia or deep backstory to this film. I think you just made that up for some likes on a comment.
@@mike7887It might just be an interpretation, they never said it was a fact.
Honestly, even if there is no proof or evidence, this does kinda make sense. I think it’s going in my head cannon.
Interesting
14:39 Maybe cause Christmas movies don't really encourage you to think much but I didn't realize how depressing it must be to live in a world were Santa is real but still not getting any presents
bro santa is the opposite of burglar robbing but still tresspassing
santa stalks you
wth 😭 LOL
2:32 It’s not just that! Tom Hanks also did motion capture for many of the characters!
Even the ticket?!
The conductor I understand but anyone else in the movie? Dude has a vocal range that can change on a whim.
That's what he means.
Most of the characters tbh
@@maui.tech.0415he did the hobo, dad, santa, and the boy i believe, the motion for the kid i believe not the voice. For sure santa, the hobo, dad, and conductor
I'm glad someone finally called out how impossibly terrifying the animation of the film is. Now my childhood soul can rest in peace.
and they played it _every single year_ at school 😭 i would put my head on my desk and cover my eyes with my arms. that movie _still_ scares the shit out of me and it’s been a full 20yrs since i was in elementary school
I don’t see it and I watch this movie every year. I love it. I don’t get why everyone hates this movie
The part where the kids walk thru Santa’s workshop or whatever always felt creepy asf to me. I think it’s all the weird angles, made me feel like they were being hunted or stalked lmao
The amount of money they used for the animation to the point they couldn't have more actors in this is wild
The fact he didn’t mention the scene where they drifted a train on ice is extremely unappreciated, I repeat DRIFTED A TRAIN I cannot stress how cool this was for me as a kid
Literally the best part of the movie.
This movie was amazing! I love how they show the kids' different walks of life of what Christmas means to them. Like Billy who isn't financially fortunate. He mentions that Christmas doesn't work out for him. He doesn't know that his parents can't afford decent gifts for him so he believes Christmas doesn't work out well.
same, i never had a problem with the animation in the film
its great for early cgi 3d animation
also it stands out more than those ones copying pixar's style
i love the songs both hot chocolate & when christmas comes to town
and yeah, the different perspectives from the children and it just really showing the polar express train itself
and when billy got so excited seeing a present for him, wanting to hold onto it and bring it home.
i just rewatched this movie and its still great even if im a lot older its also so sad the voice actor of the train conducters passed away after the film was published :(
Fun Fact: The voice of Hero Boy (the main character) was voiced by Daryl Sabara, aka Juni Cortez from Spy Kids!
Also, Josh Hutcherson did some of the motion capture for Hero Boy.
I see josh every where at this point
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And Marvin Gaye’s daughter voiced Hero Girl 😃
Was just about to comment this. But I find it odd how Alex gives a shoutout to Mandark's VA but not the MC's in the movie. Because while the former VA has an iconic and recognizable voice I keep seeing Daryl Sabara where I didn't expect him. Like in Rob Zombie's Halloween he was the kid that bullied young Michael before ending up as the first kill in the movie.
Yeah, it's a common misconception that Tom Hanks was the kid's voice. Only because he IS credited as the voice of "Hero Boy", but the Adult Voice. Basically the narrator.
As a kid this movie felt absolutely HYPER REALISTIC to me
When I was little, I thought it was live action🤦♀️
For It’s time it was cool but when you look back 20 years later I get why people think it’s creepy
@MelissaNicholson-x5i omg same i thought i was the only one
It was my top fav Christmas movie as a kid. My dad loved it too and we would always watch it.
I used to watch this movie every Christmas Eve as a kid, for like 6-7 years and even tho I don't keep that "tradition" anymore, I ll never get tired of it
I've always loved this movie 😊 & I always interpreted the fact that Tom Hanks played the four central pivotal characters, the boy, the conductor, the tramp & santa, as being a reflection of four stages of Belief 😃 the Boy is Questioning Belief as he gets older, the Tramp is Mocking Non or Disbelief as we tend to do as we get even older, the Conductor is Responsible Belief as an adult keeps it so the next generation can continue ("I have a job to do, we have to see Santa & we have to do it on time!" 😄) & Santa is Complete Total Belief ("I do believe, I do!") 😁 gives it some nice context & subtext, in my opinion 😃
I was 14 when this came and immediately clocked the animation as waaaaay too uncanny valley to handle. So of course my kid asks to watch it every xmas and I need to just go sit in the other room while it's on.
The puppet scene (the one where the main character gets trapped in a train car full of marionettes.) was absolutely terrifying.
Also, this movie was like a horror movie and a fever dream mixed together.
I cant believe Alex left out the puppet scene. Ig it was too nightmare inducing for yt 😂
That freaked me out as a kid and it still does 😂
"Christmas is sad for me because I don't get any presents"
"No but see Christmas is awesome because you get presents"
"Oh, cool"
Fun Fact: when the train arrives at the North Pole and the elves are marching along side the rail cars, if you look really close towards the back of the car, you can actually spot an elf that isn’t moving at all, and it’s just gliding along the ground. Once you see it, you can’t un-see it.
This is genuinely one of my favorite Christmas movies purely because of the nostalgic hold it has on me. In elementary school they would play this movie every year the day before break and the would pass out styrofoam cups of hot chocolate and sandwich bags of popcorn. Also, I love how none of the characters actually have names outside of Billy, who isn’t even the protagonist.
I lived this movie as a kid, it was the ultimate Christmas spirit movie. The music brought chills down my spine, I would even listen to the soundtrack throughout the entire year on the way to and back from school.
i watched it ages ago and now it feels like a dream thinking back on it
Exactly, like a fever dream
Polar Express, Elf, Home Alone 1 & 2. Absolute Christmas classics for me and my family
And the 2000 Grinch movie with Jim carrey? It's a christmas classic for me 🥰
I think elf is corny lol
For me it's mostly Gremlins Nightmare Before Christmas and Batman Returns
For me it's Gremlins and Shazam and Violent Night.
The fact that Santa exists in this movie, yet he blatantly doesn't give poor children any presents.
Isn't it heavily implied that Billy comes from a poor family? he lives on the other side of the tracks in a dilapidated house. When he returns, he not only gets his present, but his entire house is cleaned up and decorated!
@@GabePlaysYT But Santa's okay with letting Billy have no presents and a terrible house for the first ten years of his life? Santa could have done something about it the whole time and didn't? There must be millions of Billys getting nothing on xmas morning every year in this universe lol
It makes even less sense than adults not believing in Santa in universes where he actually exists
@MagicCardboardBox That something that always bugged when I was little: since Santa is real, but most people don't believe in him, then who the hell do they think is leaving gifts under their tree? The easter bunny?
@@MagicCardboardBox For real😂 they are oddly ok with some random stranger giving their kid candy every year.
The Polar Express is my traditional Christmas Eve movie. I remember being 11 and seeing it in theaters, and just being struck in awe. Didn't help that I had a "train phase" since 2000 and loved the visuals of the book.
I always see "A midnight clear" every Christmas as my tradition
I used to watch this as a kid every Christmas, and I didn't mind the animation. I didn't realize how crazy the animation looked back then.
For me, i genuinely love this movie. I was in elementary school when i first watched it and i loved it.
This is my favorite Christmas movie. It makes feel like a child again. It holds a special place in my heart. Its beautiful, nostalgic, its funny, and im an adult who still believes in santa claus. This movie just breathes Christmas and it feels like pure art.
I swear, theres no better feeling than being a kid either on Christmas eve or Christmas day and its cold outside, but relaxing inside at night and you have the polar express on the TV and you have a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows and maybe even a candy cane and you have presents under your Christmas tree. It just feels so heavenly.
Just think. Tom Hanks actually had to sit in a studio and sing "hot hot hot hot chocolate" and commit to it.
He must've had a blast.
This movie was playing in the library at my school and they have 4 tvs that are connected and it was so scary. Like the part where we first meet the girl or whenever there was a closeup of someone, it was terrifying
Hahahaha Odd enough for me it was a screen projector in my library, best part was when the teachers gave us Hot chocolate ☕️
This movie is and will forever be a part of my childhood and forever be one of my favorite holiday movies.
This movie is so confusing lol. For example my mom watched it alone a few years ago and she told me she loved the movie.
This year I asked her if she wanted to watch it again and she told me "that movie with the really weird animation ? I don't like it."
I SWEAR she told me how much she loved the movie but she can only remember how creepy and weird the animation was lol.
And for me, I was always scared of this movie but I also secretely want to see it every year.
Eddie Deezen, the voice actor for Know It All Kid, also voices Mandark in Dexter's Laboratory, and was Eugene in Grease.
Someone decided he needed to be the nerd in everything
No wayyy!!!! That's amazing!!! Grease 2 as well hahaha. I never knew that
Oh WOW I hadn't put that together haha!
He was a nerdy character in Scooby Doo too!!
I never watched this movie as a kid because I thought it was boring but I'm so glad you made a video about it because now as an adult, I appreciate it more.
5:10 I rewinded it so many times to just to hear that laugh 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
The rock music with Santa arriving was just beautiful
It has a major "WWE superstar" intro feel to it.
I was 6 when this movie came out and it instantly became a staple! I look at it now with a raised eyebrow but still love it and so does my 4 y/o!
Still wild to me that a magical train shows up out of nowhere in your yard & you just… get on 🤷🏾♀️😂
😂🤣
They think it's a dream.
I think I would. I don't get out much .
As a train nerd, I most definitely would get on, even now
@@flowerpuff944 that’s true, they did.. hell, I thought it was a dream until the end😂🤦🏾♀️
Alex is genuinely helping choose the christmas movies I wanna watch😭❤️
Fr 💀
“A guy who looks like the 0.1% of germs that soap doesn’t kill” Lol
2:33
Tom Hanks, into the Tom Hankserverse
Rewatched it with my girlfriend a few days ago since we actually haven’t watched it since we were like Early teenager’s and both agreed to rewatch it for the holidays, And good GOD!!! Me and her were looking at each other like As soon as they survive a Near Death experience another one comes and shows up for the movie till the end where the kid finally gets home safe💀💀💀
Dude this was so funny, I also rewatched it recently and it was just near death after near death. Such a ride, what a rollercoaster
5:40 The thing that really amuses me about the joke Alex made is that the Italian voice actor of this boy in this movie is the same voice actor of Sheldon Cooper.
Literally watched this last night and this came out today, nice.
"I believe.. I believe"
“That wasn’t enough. You didn’t believe hard enough. Santa's dead.”
13:19 This is basically everyone in the WWE Community Creations, but also, strangely enough, I believe this to be how Santa exits his shop as the elves cheer like they're at a WWE Event.
lol yeah 😂
"AI is gonna take over the world!"
Ai: 6:56
yesterday i lost my mind seeing a ai honda ad playing on the tv, the clouds were flipping out why the actual heck cant they afford real cgi and how did they see nothing wrong with it
Three Alex Meyers videos in one week... wut?! 😂
Merry Christmas to you and Kelsey!
There's a deleted scene that explains that the hobo got decapitated by the tunnel years ago and haunts the train
That’s…. Grim
It's how he learned that you need to "JUMP!".
8:28 normal NPC interaction
This will always be my favourite Christmas film. According to my parents, it was the first film I ever sat through in it’s entirety without giving up, and I watch it every year at least three times as it’s a household tradition. I’ve always found it a cozy and fun film, and the motion capture has never bothered me in the slightest.
I… LITERALLY watched your self video today and was like “I wonder if he’s covered the polar express” to which I was a little disappointed. I hop back on UA-cam after running a few errands and I see this video as the first video on my recommended.
I remember when this movie came out when I was in the second grade. I remember my teacher had my class write a letter to Santa, and I asked for a bell from the sleigh like in the movie. A few days later, we got letters back from Santa, and not only did I get a bell but the whole class did too.
I remember hating this movie as a kid. Never saw it in theaters as I was too young but whenever reruns started around Christmas I remember being really unnerved by it, like even as a kid I knew there was something off about it. Maybe it was just the CGI but man it put me on edge
Thank god I wasn’t the only one. Like it’s so unsettling
My dad couldn’t even watch this movie thx to the uncanny valley the animation was. I mean woof. I watched this movie as a kid and somehow I liked it. Didn’t have self awareness to tell that this movie was nightmare fuel. Now I can’t watch it. Nice video.
Had a field trip to see this movie in Elementary school. I was so traumatized by the puppet scene. Was too scared to even sleep. To this day I still hate that scene 😂
I really loved this movie a ton. Polar Express may look weird when it comes to the characters, but the charm is always something that stuck with me
It is criminal to not include the ice scene. Literally one of the best parts.
Each year of Elementary school on the last day before Christmas break we would watch this movie in class. I still remeber the teacher handing our candy canes throughout the movie and hot chocolate during the Hot Chocolate scene
I love the creepiness of the movie along with the nostalgia of it, winter is a creepy time of a year.
0:35 my mom insisted that Jim Carrey was not playing Scrooge because she thought it was live action 😂😂
6:31 my favourite scene
I remember watching this movie in school. To this day, the Polar express is still one of my favorite movies.
same XD
I successfully avoided watching this movie until my senior year of high school. My dance teacher would make our winter recital follow the plot of a Christmas movie so we had to watch it 🥲 the year before was Rudolph
As a kid I never realized how much this film pads its of run time, but it’s still a classic for me.
I have so much nostalgia for this movie. We watched this in elementary school all the time. We also go hot coco. I also went on the polar express experience. So I rode on a train to the North Pole. Except I had to have an adult with me. Lol. We also own the book which I read a lot. So I have a lot of fond memories with this movie. I don’t remember the movie being this bad but watching it again in HS. It is so uncanny. I don’t know how I was not traumatized by this movie before but I also was in love with a lot of Tim Burton movies such as The Nightmare before Christmas or Coraline so maybe it desensitized me. Lol.
I just realized, How many of you remember watching this movie in a library getting served chocolate by your teachers back in early middle school, Cause man I’m seeing a lot of comments of others with the same experience💀💀💀
In a deleted scene, the Hobo's backstory is explained. To sum it up, years ago, he hopped on the train for free and died when he struck the tunnel.
I can’t be the only one who was never disturbed by the character designs right? It was just never a big deal to child me
Everyone always talks about how much they love this movie but it’s always been creepy to me. When I was in High School we played Hot Chocolate in Jazz Band, only good memory I have from this movie.
I unironically adore this movie absolutely saw it last month in theaters. One of my favorite christmas movies 🥰
Bro that puppet scene HAUNTED me as a kid. I think I got a fear of puppets from this movie
Everyone gangsta until that one nerdy kid stares you down
9:51 yes he actually did die on the train. In a deleted scene featuring Smokey and Steamer they explain that the Hobo aka King wanted to ride for free when he was a kid, so he rode on top of the train. They then made it to flat top tunnel where he died due to the low ceiling and has haunted the train since. Flat top tunnel is the same place he helps hero boy on the ski’s.
This isn’t confirmed but die to his hand always being the last to fade out I’m guessing they found his hand and found out he had died.
That one cousin in Christmas: 2:46 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fun fact, the person who played the main character boy (Hero boy) was the same voice actor as Juni from Spy Kids
6:56 !! WARNING !!! Make sure you are not drinking anything before watching this part! I warned you, the mess is all on you!
“What kind of voices can you do Tom hanks?”
“I can do Tom hanks but in a slightly different accent”
Loved when I was in elementary school, and they would play this before Christmas break. They gave us those bells and I remember being a bit too obsessed with it after having it lol
I'm still confused about how an 800,000+ pound pere Marquette and 13+ coaches were able to not break the ice, but a small clip was enough to crack the ice. Man I sure love this movie😂😂
6:56 Gee, thanks, Meyers; now I've found MY new sleep paralysis demon.
“It’s a magic carpet on a rail” ❤
Ah yes, who could forget Santa's famous catchphrase; "Get wrecked nerds" 😂
5:37 Erm actually its an N1 class built in 1941
Lima locomotive works
You Know, For A Kid That Knows All About Trains, He Sure Got The Train Model Wrong.
The hobo on top of the train is to represent the Spirit of Christmas I believe...
Ooo boy I love this movie, and I gotta talk about this part 14:06
So you know how earlier with the Hobo talking to our main character about how “seeing is believing” and in the marionette scene where he calls him a doubter? Our main character rings this bell to hear the word “doubt” taunting him! Then! He starts to say “I believe” and he closes his eyes!! Seeing isn’t always believing and he had to close his eyes to feel within his heart that he truly believed! I love this movie, Alex Meyers, you don’t understand 😭😭
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My elementary school took us on a field trip to see this movie after we read the book. It was a great childhood memory!
Does anyone else ever just name the kids that don't have names? Like for me, the main boy's (Hero Boy) name is Tom, the Black girl's (Hero Girl) name is Andrea, the nerd kid's name is Ned, and I may or may not have named the conducted Al.
You know I never noticed that. The main characters don’t even mention their names.
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the puppet cart scene once. I’ve been watching this movie yearly my whole life and the only part of this movie that ever scared me was that god forsaken Scrooge puppet
You have to do now A Disney’s Christmas Carol.
Fun fact, in this scene Hero Boy’s voice actor Josh Hutcherson was doing the MoCap for this the train ride with Tom Hanks and at the part where Josh was on Tom’s shoulders Josh farted right behind Tom’s head as they were filming!😂 Tom still teases Josh about it lol!
This one definitely did feel like a fever dream but it's still one of my all time favourite Christmas movie's 😅
All the best over the holidays and i hope you get a chance to rest 😊
The kids are so creepy in this movie 😶 17:06
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I remember r seeing this in IMAX as a kid in the science museum and it's burned in my eyes
when I first watched the polar express it made me realise Santa wasn't real bc I saw his shadow on my stairs and it made me realise it was my dad in a bloody Santa hat... TBH the beer bootle should have given it away