Arthur Christmas, if you haven’t guessed (i.e. if you live under a very large rock) is definitely for children and the family. Of course, if you happen to be like me, having an inner child that never grows up and loves Christmas, you’ll enjoy this.
It’s premise is simple enough. Santa has forgotten a child from his list! And a nice child at that too!
Santa, being Malcolm Christmas (Jim Broadbent), descendant of St. Nicholas.
The current Santa is getting on a bit, so he relies on his eldest son, Steve (Hugh Laurie), whom one would assume was once trained by the military… and a grumpy puss. Steve is also next in line to be Santa, once the current one retires… or so Steve hopes. Santa, on the other hand may have other ideas.
Steve’s idea of a sleigh is what one can only describe as a giant red spaceship, the aptly named S-1 (does that stand for Santa or Steve, I wonder?). The giant red spaceship, sorry, S-1 is in turn navigated by an insane number of elves.
Back to the story, Steve doesn’t care Santa has forgotten a child, after all, it is only one child out of billions. So he convinces Santa to ignore it and go to sleep.
So it’s up to Santa’s youngest son – Arthur (James McAvoy) to save Christmas for one special little girl – Gwen. Arthur is the butt of everyone’s jokes. He’s clumsy, gets in the way and just cares too much. He also happens to be the one replying to all the children’s letters. And he hero-worships his father. Which basically means he’ll never succeed right? Especially when he has his lunatic Grandfather – GrandSanta (a hysterical, scene stealing Bill Nighy), an elf specialising in wrapping – Briony (Ashley Jensen) and the descendents of the original Reindeers (dunb, but beautiful creatures) helping him. Oh, I forgot Evie, the real sleigh (in my opinion at least).
And they have to achieve this all in secret before little Gwen wakes!
Will Arthur save Christmas for one little girl?
Will Santa retire?
Will Steve inherit the family business?
Or will GrandSanta rule the day once more, along with his beloved Evie?
You'll have to watch and see.
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