
This movie reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: "So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?" The answer: Santa's (Jim Broadbent's) exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of this movie is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur (James McAvoy), with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.... (Full plot summary below)
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This movie reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: "So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?" The answer: Santa's (Jim Broadbent's) exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of this movie is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur (James McAvoy), with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
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| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsBritish to its fingertips, from the cast to its terrifically droll sense of humour. Oh, and it's also pretty wonderful. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottDestined to be our new favorite Christmas movie. |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlThe movie is dense with witty visual detail that helps to distract from the somewhat trumped-up moral dilemma at its center. |
| Toronto StarBruce DemaraHilarious, fast-paced and superbly entertaining. |
| HitFixDrew McWeenyThis is aimed squarely at families, and it plays more sweet than edgy. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelCathy Jakicic"Arthur" is so full of clever visual humor and throwaway background jokes that multiple viewings may be needed to take it all in. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe action is swift and witty, and the 3-D effects are imaginative and not simply tacked on as with so many animated movies these days. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanWatching Arthur Christmas is like doing your holiday shopping on Dec. 23: fun and frantic, exciting and maddening. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertIf "Arthur Christmas" doesn't make you happy, I honestly don't know what's wrong with you. |
| The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenLeave it to the folks who brought us "Wallace & Gromit," "Chicken Run" and "Flushed Away" to bring a delightful blast of fresh air to the conventional Christmas genre. Aardman's Arthur Christmas is that and more - an endlessly amusing 3D, CG-animated Yuletide romp with lively innovation at every turn and a dream voice cast headed by James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie and Bill Nighy. |