Arthur Christmas

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.

Cast

James McAvoy

James McAvoy

as Arthur (voice)

Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie

as Steve (voice)

Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

as Grandsanta (voice)

Jim Broadbent

Jim Broadbent

as Santa (voice)

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

as Mrs Santa (voice)

Ashley Jensen

Ashley Jensen

as Bryony (voice)

Marc Wootton

Marc Wootton

as Peter (voice)

Laura Linney

Laura Linney

as North Pole Computer (voice)

Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria

as Chief De Silva (voice)

Ramona Marquez

Ramona Marquez

as Gwen (voice)

Reviews

r96sk

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,...

CinemaSerf

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 young...

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