Arthur Christmas (2011)
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Critic Consensus: Aardman Animations broadens their humor a bit for Arthur Christmas, a clever and earnest holiday film with surprising emotional strength.
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Cast
as Arthur
as Steve
as Grandsanta
as Santa
as Mrs. Santa
as Bryony
as Peter
as North Pole Computer
as Chief De Silva
as Gwen
as Ernie Clicker
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Lead Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Elf
as Pedro
as French Boy
as Idaho Man
as Reporter
as Reporter
as N.O.R.A.D.
as General
as General
as UNFITA OPS
as UNFITA OPS
as UNFITA OPS
as Additional Voices
as Additional Voices
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Critic Reviews for Arthur Christmas
All Critics (158) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (145) | Rotten (13) | DVD (1)
This witty, handsomely appointed 3-D animated feature is the most delightful Santa biopic since Edmund Gwenn donned the fat suit.
It's as bright and twinkling as a Christmas tree, decked with warmth and humor.
It's busy but buoyant, and it honors the tradition of giving with wit and style.
The 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.
The movie fails utterly at coming up with a story that merits all the eye candy.
With a clever script that successfully updates many Christmas myths and dialogue that crackles with sophisticated wit, this movie offers the kind of pre-holiday experience that parents and children alike will appreciate.
Audience Reviews for Arthur Christmas
Inventive Brit bit about the life at the North Pole where the Claus family is at odds with one another, each with their own particular and opposing viewpoints. Can they leave their differences and unite to save Christmas? Of course they do, its a Christmas movie f'cryingoutloud. The fun is in the getting there, and there's plenty of that here. You will believe a reindeer can fly. No, really. They can. Its how Santa gets around. Whatta you mean you don't believe?!?
Super Reviewer
Humor, wit and humanity abound in this bright Christmas gem. It's a wonderfully innovative Christmas story with fantastic animation and great voice talent. I found it quite enjoyable.
Super Reviewer
Though lacking the technical wizardry of other contemporary animated movies, Arthur Christmas is tightly scripted, creative and witty in surprising ways (which itself is unsurprising given the Aardman legacy), and emotionally sophisticated. Likely the best under-the-radar animated movie of the last several years.
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Arthur Christmas Quotes
| Bryony: | No one gets an unwrapped present on MY watch! |
| Bryony: | No one gets an unwrapped present on my watch! |
| Steve: | Operation Santa Claus is coming to town! |
| Bryony: | She runs away! Alchoholic by the age of nine! DEAD before she's even...! [Grandsanta blocks her mouth to prevent her from going any further] |
| Bryony: | She runs away! Alchoholic by the age of nine! DEAD before she's even... [Grandsanta blocks her mouth to prevent her from going any further] |
| Grandsanta: | "I'll never forget the look on your dads face. Couldnt look me in the eye. 'Dad' he says. 'Steve thinks it's best if you don't fly anymore. Were scrapping the old slay'." |
| Grandsanta: | I'll never forget the look on your dads face. Couldnt look me in the eye. 'Dad' he says. 'Steve thinks it's best if you don't fly anymore. Were scrapping the old slay'. |
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