Review: Hugo

Mis-marketed as Scorcese's first family film - instead of having the widest appeal, Hugo is arguably Marty's most niche film to date, focusing on French film-maker Georges Méliès and the birth of cinema rather than the character from which the film takes its name.

At times you feel like Hugo actually gets in the way of things, with his hijinks trying to escape from Sasha Baron Cohen's 'Allo 'Allo style station master sitting uneasily amongst Scorcese's love-letter to early cinema. Kids won't like the second half and adults will struggle to stay with the by the numbers chases and pratfalls that make up most of the opening act.

Hugo deservedly won 5 Oscars for its sumptuous design, but its telling they were all for its technical prowess as the sets always outshine the script.