Ever wonder how 2 Billion presents get delivered all in 1 night?
For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20227/10
It is actually quite hard to find innovative ways to tell Santa stories now, but this one does do quite well on that score. It all centres on Santa's now almost entirely automated delivery process using a sleigh clearly inspired by the starship "Enterprise". Horror of horrors, though, when the youngest member of the Claus family - the eponymous "Arthur" - discovers that one young girl isn't going to get her expertly wrapped bicycle! His dad "Steve" is content to put it down to a technical glitch, and his grandad (the sitting Santa) is too tired to bother, too. It falls to "Grand Santa", "Arthur" and his old fairy-dust powered, reindeer-pulled, sled to get the bike to the little "Gwen" before the sun comes up on Christmas morning. What now ensues are a series of fun escapades as the old man (he rather reminded me of Wilfred Bramble's "Steptoe" character) and his enthusiastic young dreamer have to navigate the world - at high speed - and find a small Cornish village that shares it's name with one or two other places around the world, whilst avoiding the authorities who are rapidly concluding that space aliens are on the loose. A solid and entertaining voice cast - especially Bill Nig
Read the whole review on TMDB - r96skon TMDB · Dec 20207/10
A good watch. I had a fine time watching <em>'Arthur Christmas'</em>. The plot is a little light, with a fairly simple event taking a relative while to resolve itself, but it's still a pleasant festive animated film - with neat animation. There are a number of familiar names on the voice cast, too many to name in actual fact. My personal standout is Hugh Laurie as Steven, though James McAvoy, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are all enjoyable too.
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Cast
- James McAvoyArthur (voice)
- Hugh LaurieSteve (voice)
- Bill NighyGrandsanta (voice)
- Jim BroadbentSanta (voice)
- Imelda StauntonMrs Santa (voice)
- Ashley JensenBryony (voice)
- Marc WoottonPeter (voice)
- Laura LinneyNorth Pole Computer (voice)
- Eva LongoriaChief De Silva (voice)
- Ramona MarquezGwen (voice)
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- Sarah SmithDirector
- Sarah SmithScreenplay
- Peter BaynhamScreenplay
- Harry Gregson-WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- John CarnochanEditor
- James CooperEditor
- Peter LordProducer
- Steve PegramProducer
- Carla ShelleyProducer
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