Arthur Christmas Review

Arthur Christmas


Release Date: 24th November 2011 - Australia


Production Companies
Aardman Animations

Sony Pictures Animation

Distribution

Sony Pictures Australia

Genre: Animation/Family

Rating: G

Runtime: 112 minutes

Budget: $100,000,000

Box Office Gross: $147,420,536 (Worldwide - figure subject to change)

Plot Summary

This Christmas movie
highlights the technological
advances of operations at
the North Pole, revealing
how Santa and his vast
army of highly trained

elves produce gifts and
distribute them around the
world in one night. However,
every operation has a margin
of error... When one of 600
million children to receive a
gift from Santa on Christmas
Eve is missed, it is deemed

"acceptable" to all but one,
Arthur. Arthur Claus is
Santa's misfit son who
executes an unauthorized
rookie mission to get the
last present half way around
the globe before dawn on
Christmas morning. (Source - Metro Cinemas)

Voice Cast

James McAvoy - Arthur

Hugh Laurie - Steve

Jim Broadbent - Santa

Bill Nighy - Grandsanta

Imelda Staunton - Mrs. Santa

Ashley Jensen - Bryony

Marc Wootton - Peter

Laura Linney - North Pole Computer

Eva Longoria - Chief De Silva

Ramona Marquez - Gwen

Michael Palin - Ernie Clicker

Ryan Patrick Donahue - Pedro

Jerry Lambert - N.O.R.A.D.

Sanjeev Bhaskar - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Robbie Coltrane - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Joan Cusack - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Rhys Darby - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Jane Horrocks - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Iain McKee - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Andy Serkis - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Dominic West - Lead Elf (Cameo)

Crew

Screenplay/Director - Sarah Smith

Screenplay/Co-Executive Producer -
Peter Baynham
Co-Executive Producer - Cheryl Abood
Consulting Producer - Osnat Shurer

Producers - Steve Pegram, Peter Lord,
Carla Shelley & David Sproxton
Production Designer - Evgeni Tomov
Art Director: Environment - Olivier Adam
Art Director: Characters - Tim Watts
Visual Consultant - Alex McDowell
Character Designers - Peter DeSeve,
Buck Lewis, Barry Reynolds, Luis Grane
& Christophe Lourdelet

Costume Designer - Yves Barre
Head of Story - Donnie Long

Cinematic Designer - Jericca Cleland

Senior Supervising Animator - Alan Short
Supervising Animators - Alan Hawkins,
Brian D. Scott, Seamus Malone
Lead Animator - Joshua Beveridge

Layout/Previz Supervisor - Simon Dundson

Layout Supervisor - David Morehead
Visual Effects Supervisor - Doug Ikeler

Computer Graphics Supervisor -
Michael Ford & David Satchwell 

Computer Graphics Supervisor - R. Stirling G

Film Editors - John Carnochan &

James Cooper

Music - Harry Gregson-Williams

Review
'ARTHUR CHRISTMAS' is a splendid and funny animated holiday movie that features a terrific and passionate storyline revealing a huge task lying ahead of Santa and the every increasing pressure that lay on his shoulders to meet the demands of all children. The first half of the movie was a bit of a spin of 'Mission: Impossible' which I’ll think that the fans of the series will quite like. The voice cast of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie and Bill Nighy was good and I feel their relation to their characters was genuine and you get the sense that they really emphasise the emotion and expression that these characters would experience in this situation.

This is the first Aardman movie since 'Flushed Away'. It finishes on a happy note, leaving you feeling rewarded by this overall entertaining holiday hit.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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