8.5/10
This is actually a surprisingly wonderful animal, and a true rarity seemingly outside of Pixar movies - it's witty, charming, both heart-warming and sad, and it can be enjoyed and appreciated on multiple levels, young or old. And it has some of the cleanest and best-looking 3D animation I've ever seen, a big plus. In the end the many themes, of loneliness and trying to find one's place in the world and friendship and the magic of cinema and understanding across generational divides...it might sound cliché when I write it but they're all handled so deftly and with genuine emotion by Scorsese, it's impossible to not be moved.
My only real complaints was that the movie takes a while to really get going, and I wished there was more laugh-out-loud humor - there's some cuteness and some stuff that'll make you smile, but not much genuinely funny as in a Pixar movie. That would have really put Hugo over the top, for me.
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