The Polar Express

The Polar Express

The Polar Express
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Brand: POLAR EXPRESS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. The Polar Express -- Tom Hanks
  2. When Christmas Comes To Town -- Matthew Hall and Meagan Moore
  3. Rockin' On Top of the World -- Steven Tyler
  4. Believe -- Josh Groban
  5. Hot Chocolate -- Tom Hanks
  6. Spirit of the Season -- Alan Silvestri
  7. Seeing is Believing -- Alan Silvestri
  8. Santa Claus is Comin' To Town -- Frank Sinatra
  9. White Christmas -- Bing Crosby
  10. Winter Wonderland -- The Andrews Sisters
  11. It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas -- Perry Como
  12. Silver Bells -- Kate Smith
  13. Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Claus Lane) -- Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
  14. Suite From the Polar Express -- Alan Silvestri

Music reviews of The Polar Express

Music Review: Fun Holiday CD
Rating: 5 Stars

Bought this CD for my four year old granddaughter because she loves the movie. We spend alot of time in the car and right now it's the only CD she wants on and she sings along at the top of her lungs.

Description of The Polar Express

Promising to be this holiday season's family film blockbuster, the revolutionary computer-animated The Polar Express-based on a best-selling children's book, starring the voice of Tom Hanks and directed by Academy Award winner Robert Zemeckis-is a classic Christmas film with a modern look. The soundtrack album also mixes the classic with the contemporary, with immortal versions of the greatest Christmas songs ever penned, such as "White Christmas" from Bing Crosby and new recordings from Josh Groban "Believe", Aerosmith's Steven Tyler "Rockin' On Top Of The World" and others. This Christmas everyone will be getting on board The Polar Express.
In adapting Chris Van Allsburg's beloved, 1986 Caldecott Medal winning children's Christmas fable, director Robert Zemeckis fused the technologies of live-action motion capture and CGI to an unprecedented degree, producing a visual sensibility that perfectly embodies the netherworld between fantasy and reality that made the book so inviting. Musically, Zemeckis has shrewdly teamed longtime collaborator Alan Silvestri with hit tunesmith Glen Ballard for the original half his soundtrack, then given the rest over to a star-packed tribute to pop Christmas past that includes such timeless chestnuts as Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," "Winter Wonderland" by the Andrew Sisters and Perry Como's "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." But the Silvestri/Ballard originals here are the main event, from Tom Hanks' vigorous vocal mugging on the title track and "Hot Chocolate" through the innocent charm of "When Christmas Comes to Town" and the over-the-top, jumpin' jive of Steven Tyler's "Rockin' On Top of the World." Josh Groban's "Believe" overdoes the treacle, but Silvestri's rich choral workouts and underscore suite are grand Hollywood-scaled tributes to the spirit of the season. Also available in a deluxe, illustrated children's book format gift edition that includes an actual encased jingle bell embedded in the cover. --Jerry McCulley

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