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DramaAnimationFamilyComedy

Arthur Christmas

- Ever wonder how 2 Billion presents get delivered all in 1 night?

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, 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 Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

Release Date : 2011-11-10

Language :EnglishSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Columbia PicturesSony Pictures AnimationAardman

Production Country : United KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

James McAvoy

Character Name : Arthur (voice)

Original Name : James McAvoy

Gender : Male

Hugh Laurie

Character Name : Steve (voice)

Original Name : Hugh Laurie

Gender : Male

Bill Nighy

Character Name : Grandsanta (voice)

Original Name : Bill Nighy

Gender : Male

Jim Broadbent

Character Name : Santa (voice)

Original Name : Jim Broadbent

Gender : Male

Imelda Staunton

Character Name : Mrs Santa (voice)

Original Name : Imelda Staunton

Gender : Female

Ashley Jensen

Character Name : Bryony (voice)

Original Name : Ashley Jensen

Gender : Female

Marc Wootton

Character Name : Peter (voice)

Original Name : Marc Wootton

Gender : Male

Laura Linney

Character Name : North Pole Computer (voice)

Original Name : Laura Linney

Gender : Female

Eva Longoria

Character Name : Chief De Silva (voice)

Original Name : Eva Longoria

Gender : Female

Ramona Marquez

Character Name : Gwen (voice)

Original Name : Ramona Marquez

Gender : Female

Michael Palin

Character Name : Ernie Clicker (voice)

Original Name : Michael Palin

Gender : Male

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Sanjeev Bhaskar

Gender : Male

Robbie Coltrane

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Robbie Coltrane

Gender : Male

Joan Cusack

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Joan Cusack

Gender : Female

Rhys Darby

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Rhys Darby

Gender : Male

Jane Horrocks

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Jane Horrocks

Gender : Female

Iain McKee

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Iain McKee

Gender : Male

Andy Serkis

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Andy Serkis

Gender : Male

Dominic West

Character Name : Lead Elf (voice)

Original Name : Dominic West

Gender : Male

Peter Baynham

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Peter Baynham

Gender : Male

Cody Cameron

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Cody Cameron

Gender : Male

Kevin Cecil

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Kevin Cecil

Gender : Male

Kevin Eldon

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Kevin Eldon

Gender : Male

Rich Fulcher

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Rich Fulcher

Gender : Male

Bronagh Gallagher

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Bronagh Gallagher

Gender : Female

Pete Jack

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Pete Jack

Gender : Male

Danny John-Jules

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Danny John-Jules

Gender : Male

Emma Kennedy

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Emma Kennedy

Gender : Female

Stewart Lee

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Stewart Lee

Gender : Male

Seamus Malone

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Seamus Malone

Gender : Male

Kris Pearn

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Kris Pearn

Gender : Male

Alan Short

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Alan Short

Gender : Male

Sarah Smith

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Sarah Smith

Gender : Female

Adam Tandy

Character Name : Elf (voice)

Original Name : Adam Tandy

Gender : Male

Ryan Patrick Donahoe

Character Name : Pedro (voice)

Original Name : Ryan Patrick Donahoe

Gender : Male

Finlay Duff

Character Name : French Boy (voice)

Original Name : Finlay Duff

Gender : Male

Rich Hall

Character Name : Idaho Man (voice)

Original Name : Rich Hall

Gender : Male

Clint Dyer

Character Name : Reporter (voice)

Original Name : Clint Dyer

Gender : Male

Donnie Long

Character Name : Reporter (voice)

Original Name : Donnie Long

Gender : Male

Jerry Lambert

Character Name : N.O.R.A.D (voice)

Original Name : Jerry Lambert

Gender : Male

Deborah Findlay

Character Name : General (voice)

Original Name : Deborah Findlay

Gender : Female

David Schneider

Character Name : General (voice)

Original Name : David Schneider

Gender : Male

Ian Ashpitel

Character Name : UNFITA OPS (voice)

Original Name : Ian Ashpitel

Gender : Male

Julia Davis

Character Name : UNFITA OPS (voice)

Original Name : Julia Davis

Gender : Female

Kerry Shale

Character Name : UNFITA OPS (voice)

Original Name : Kerry Shale

Gender : Male

Tamsin Greig

Character Name : Additional Voices (voice)

Original Name : Tamsin Greig

Gender : Female

Alistair McGowan

Character Name : Additional Voices (voice)

Original Name : Alistair McGowan

Gender : Male

Reviews

r96sk

@r96sk

2021-06-23

A good watch. I had a fine time watching 'Arthur Christmas'. The plot is a little light, with a fairly simple event taking a relative while to resolve itself, but it's still a pleasant festive animated film - with neat animation. There are a number of familiar names on the voice cast, too many to name in actual fact. My personal standout is Hugh Laurie as Steven, though James McAvoy, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are all enjoyable too.

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-12-24

It is actually quite hard to find innovative ways to tell Santa stories now, but this one does do quite well on that score. It all centres on Santa's now almost entirely automated delivery process using a sleigh clearly inspired by the starship "Enterprise". Horror of horrors, though, when the youngest member of the Claus family - the eponymous "Arthur" - discovers that one young girl isn't going to get her expertly wrapped bicycle! His dad "Steve" is content to put it down to a technical glitch, and his grandad (the sitting Santa) is too tired to bother, too. It falls to "Grand Santa", "Arthur" and his old fairy-dust powered, reindeer-pulled, sled to get the bike to the little "Gwen" before the sun comes up on Christmas morning. What now ensues are a series of fun escapades as the old man (he rather reminded me of Wilfred Bramble's "Steptoe" character) and his enthusiastic young dreamer have to navigate the world - at high speed - and find a small Cornish village that shares it's name with one or two other places around the world, whilst avoiding the authorities who are rapidly concluding that space aliens are on the loose. A solid and entertaining voice cast - especially Bill Nighy and James McAvoy as our intrepid delivery boys deliver an entertainingly paced script well, with some enjoyably crafted animation and a suitably jolly score from Harry Gregson-Williams. It's fun, this - and offers plenty for younger and older alike.