Arthur Christmas /Rated PG/

Synopsis: All operations are a success at the North Pole, with Santa (voice: Jim Broadbent) back and sound asleep from the long night of delivering presents with his team of elves. Although the stillness is broken when a janitor elf finds a gift that has not been delivered! Santa and his two sons Arthur (voice: James McAvoy) from the letter department and Steve (voice: Hugh Laurie) the big shot who next in line to be Santa are alerted, but hope is lost when there is only hours away from Christmas morning! Although Arthur will not accept a child being missed, so him, Grandsanta (voice: Bill Nighy), and a obsessive gift wrapping elf named Bryony (voice: Ashley Jensen) venture to England to deliver the gift "the old fashioned way."

I give this movie out of a 1-10 scale a: 6: I think this movie is one of those perfect family movies, but there were many aspects I was not a fan of. I did like the elf  Bryony and the humor that went along with her character and her obsession with wrapping, plus some of the intersting things she wrapped. I also liked some of the character of Grandsanta but he really just wanted the glory of being Santa again to show he didn't need all the technology which was the only reason why he went with Arthur. Another aspect I didn't enjoy about this film was that when the current Santa found out about the child being missed he really didn't care, in fact through the whole thing he really wasn't caring about any of the kids till the end. Also Santa didn't really do anything when delivering the gifts, the elves were basically doing all the work. The last thing about the current Santa I didn't like was that he didn't retire when he had the chance, it didn't seem like he really liked the job, the only reason why he didn't retire was that he felt so important, but like I said before he wasn't really doing any work in the first place. All of the things that I mentioned about the current Santa in my opinion don't go along with the Santa kids think about, and who puts their presents in their stockings and under the tree, it just doesn't go along with his personality. Also in this film almost all the characters didn't really get the meaning of Christmas which I think is a good theme. So really the only things I liked about this movie was the theme and the humor of some of the characters. Although over the holidays I encourage you to go and see Arthur Christmas! A film the whole family will enjoy!

About the Stars: James McAvoy: When I was searching the Internet for information on James McAvoy I was surprised that he was in lots of movies that I'd seen and movies that I've heard were really good. It turns out James McAvoy was in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe where he is actually one of my favorite characters, Mr. Tumnus. He also was in X-Men: First Class where he is Charles Xavier. Plus he is the voice of Gnomeo in the film Gnomeo & Juliet, and many other movies!

About the Stars: Hugh Laurie: When we were sitting in the theater watching Arthur Christmas my dad leaned over to me and whispered that's Hugh Laurie, the dad in Stuart Little. I didn't notice at first but then I remembered. Like I said Hugh Laurie has been in both Stuart Little movies where he is Mr. Fredrick Little and in the animated video Stuart Little 3 he is the voice of Mr. Fredrick Little. He is also in a movie called Monsters vs. Aliens where he is the voice of Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. and he is in a television series called House M.D. where he is Dr. Gregory House.

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