Hugo: A Movie Review

The movie "Hugo" stars young actors, is family friendly and teaches good values, but it is not intended for kids.
The film lacked the whimsy, adventure and imagination typically lining a flick for preteen audiences.
In fact, there was very little action other than a scene where Hugo and new friend Isabella steal away into a movie theater, and the hero's constant effort to sidestep the station inspector.
Instead, the film focused its lens on itself.
The story follows an orphan clock winder in Paris who steals parts from a train station toymaker in an effort to rebuild an automaton, left to him by his deceased father.
After fixing the mechanical man with the help of the toymaker's goddaughter, Hugo learns that the man who caught him taking parts from his shop used to be a filmmaker.
From there, "Hugo" spends more than an hour investigating and reliving old films.
While romantic to a degree in its original story line and interesting to see old feature films successfully intertwined inside of a modern-day one, "Hugo" is slow-paced propaganda.
Watch the penultimate scene of the movie to understand.
It's almost as though the filmmakers used a child's quest to find closure with his father and a new family to applaud and commemorate the founding fathers of the moving picture.
For history buffs, Wikipedia would have been a faster way to learn about fictitious old-school moviemakers.