A good movie

I already saw this movie, in fact, I saw it in the movie theater when it was released, but, since it was a while back, I was quite eager to check it out again. Basically, after making all those gangsters flicks, Scorsese decided to make for the first time a 'family' feature which was pretty neat. Well, after all these years, I still don't get why this movie was such a critical success though. Indeed, in contrary to what most of the critics seemed to think, I wasn't exactly blown away by the whole thing and this rewatch didn't change my opinion at all. First of all, to be honest, I don't think it was an appealing movie for the kids in general. I mean, it was not fun at all even rather sad and all the movie references were just way too high-brow for the young viewers (even most of the adults won't have any clue about who was George Méliès). Still, it is a really gorgeous movie and one of the very few movies I have seen where the 3D provided some actual added value. It was also a really sweet love letter to the history of motion pictures. Eventually, as long as the movie was focusing on Méliès, it was actually working fine, especially if you actually know the guy and/or are interested in motion picture history. Unfortunately, all the other characters involved were not interesting and barely entertaining, especially Hugo Cabret. I'm not blaming Asa Butterfield, he actually delivered a solid performance, but his character was just too bland. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was a decent watch, in my opinion, it is in fact a minor effort from Martin Scorsese but, still, a minor Scorsese is always better than most of the garbage you can see nowadays.