Movie Name:- Arthur Christmas

Release Date:- 23 November 2011

Directed By:- Sarah Smith

Produced By:- Steve Pegram, Carla Shelley, Peter Lord, David Sproxton

Written by:- Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith

Category / Genres:- Animation, Comedy, Drama

IMDB Rating:- 7.1

Run Time:- 97 Minutes

Star Cast:- James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Ramona Marquez, Michael Palin, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Robbie Coltrane, Joan Cusack, Rhys Darby

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Arthur Christmas Movie Story Line:- Every kid loves to explore that from where Santa Claus comes, how he secretly leaves gifts for them and much more, as they grow up hearing the stories of their favorite Christmas Eve character. Here is the movie called Arthur Christmas that unleashes the imaginations of the kids, who are all in love with the Santa. The theme of this kids-oriented film centers on the life of Santa’s purported son named Arthur, played by McAvoy. He is a well-behaved, disciplined, but maladroit boy, who is on a clandestine mission, which he has to accomplish before the Christmas dawn breaks in the city. Basically the movie has two sub-plots; one where Arthur, who belongs to a comically dysfunctional family, is on his way to accomplish his secret motive and two, where the whole scenario of Santa being real or imaginary is presented, which keeps the children at the tenterhooks. You can gift Arthur Christmas video to your children and cheer them up with this exhilarating movie. They would love to have it as a festive present.

Arthur Christmas Movie Review:- I brought a group of willing friends to go see Arthur Christmas, one of which had never seen a 3D movie before. This made it even more exciting. I like seeing the new Christmas movies coming out, and I like to see if any of them would make my yearly tradition. Arthur Christmas, unfortunately, is not one of them.

What a blatantly average movie at best. The movie starts out bad, with a music video by Justin Bieber, no less. That pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the movie. He's singing Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Couldn't he sing something original like what Mariah Carey did? Anyway, once that torture is over with, we start with the movie. The song plays briefly again, and we just wanted it to stop! Then we see these elves stealthy enter people's homes and try to deliver presents without being seen. This part was actually pretty cool and it starts off with some energy. After that whole scenario, the energy winds down as we are introduced to the plot. It seems it was a successful mission, or so they thought, as one present wasn't delivered to some little girl named Gwen. Arthur is determined to deliver this present, despite his brother Steve (played with cool by Hugh Laurie) and his dad Santa Claus not really caring and calling it a night. So Arthur takes his grandpa and some reindeer out to deliver the present in some wild adventure ride.

You see, the problem is: I just don't care. Arthur cares. His grandpa cares, but I don't. Apparently my friends didn't, either. The characters all seem one-dimensional aside from Hugh Laurie's portrayal of Steve and the filmed lacked all energy at this point. It was as if the film was being made because it had to. Aside from a couple of good scenes (the lions attack scene and Arthur getting back on the sleigh), this film was just one boring ride. Also, sometimes when the action is getting good, they keep cutting to someone talking and it drove me nuts! By the end of it, it was a forced happy ending and when I say forced, I mean FORCED! The words happy is practically shouted off on the screen as if to assure all the little kids that everyone is happy. Well, I really didn't care and the movie was pretty lame. Oh yeah, and the 3D wasn't very good and it was mostly blurry and nearly hurt my eyes!

If you want to go see a decent Christmas film, I suggest Harold and Kumar's 3D Christmas or better yet, catch Polar Express at the IMAX or something. This is a rather tame film, hanging off between average and below average, and it's best be a present left in its wrapping paper. I don't know where all these good reviews are coming from, but they steered this sleigh in the wrong direction!