Continuity mistake: Throughout the movie, the number of cars the train has changes. The scene where Hero Girl's ticket is surrounded by a pack of wolves shows the train having around 20 cars, but the scene where the train's on the ice shows it having 5.
wizard_of_gore
5th Jan 2024
The Polar Express (2004)
29th Dec 2018
The Polar Express (2004)
Stupidity: The Engineer and Fireman of the Polar Express train crew should have known better than to not bend back the the metallic prongs of the cotter pin, which would have prevented the cotter pin from coming loose and causing all those problems in the driving of the train.
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Suggested correction: As you yourself stated, the whole thing is likely a dream, where "normal" reality doesn't apply. In the "real world", the train would never be able to do any of the things that it does in the film.
Dream or not, it is still a stupidity of the train crew to not secure a pin that could work itself free of the controls of the locomotive.
Dreams are often unrealistic. There is no mistake.
The entry doesn't say anything about the entire trip to the North Pole being a dream.
6th Sep 2007
The Polar Express (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they arrive in the village, and they are telling the lonely boy how he should see Santa, during the scene beeping can be heard.
Correction: What sort of "beeping"? I have seen this movie countless times because of my daughter, and there are a lot of sounds going on during that scene, but I can't hear anything resembling beeping.
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Suggested correction: The entire journey is likely just a dream. There are many things in the movie that cannot happen in the "real" world, and the number of cars changing is just another aspect of the dreamlike nature of the trip.
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