Arthur Christmas

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  • Opened November 23, 2011 
  • 1 hr 40 min
  • PG | Some mild rude humor

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 5+. More on child suitability

  • Everyone knows that, each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn't know is that Santa accomplishes the feat with a very high-tech operation beneath the North Pole. But when the unthinkable happens, and Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions, someone has to save the day. It's up to Arthur (James McAvoy), Santa's youngest son, to deliver a present to the forgotten tyke before Christmas morning dawns. Full synopsis

  • Cast: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy
  • Director: Sarah Smith
  • Genres: Animated, 3D

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Very entertaining holiday movie for kids of all ages from 6 to 72

by granddaddy123

Everyone will be entertained by the characters in this Santa story updated for our technological age. There are many laughs throughout the movie and you will not be disappointed in this holiday fare....

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Best Christmas movie ever for family

by jpeterson1695

I left the movie smiling and in the holiday spirit of love and sharing. What more can be asked for. I really want to see it on Dvd so I can have captions....

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Athur Christmas brings out true Christmas spirit

by DwightTG

With a little bit of everything for everyone, this new-age christmas tale reminds us what christmas is all about. I wasnt really excited about Arthur Christmas, but I was thouroughly suprised. It is...

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Michael Rechtshaffen

Leave it to the folks who brought us "Wallace & Gromit," "Chicken Run" and "Flushed Away" to bring a delightful blast of fresh air to the conventional Christmas genre. Aardman's Arthur Christmas is that and more - an endlessly amusing 3D, CG-animated Yuletide romp with lively innovation at every turn and a dream voice cast headed by James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie and Bill Nighy. Read full review

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Movieline
| Michelle Orange

Arthur Christmas is a Grinch-style story of rekindled Christmas spirit told from inside Santa's compound at the North Pole. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Keith Staskiewicz

The resulting adventure, like most of Aardman's work (Chicken Run, Flushed Away), is more clever than outright funny, but it's also genuinely sweet, and the complicated relations among Santa's clan are surprisingly believable. Read full review

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Chicago Tribune
| Michael Phillips

A tender and upbeat spirit informs the writing and the execution. Read full review

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Arthur in "Arthur Christmas.''