Review: Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas

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How does Santa deliver all the presents in one night? In Arthur Christmas Santa (voice of Jim Broadbent) uses lots of computers and a flying spaceship. But when a computer error leaves one child without a present, Santas son Steve (voice of Hugh Laurie) decides that its not important and that one in two billion isn’t a bad margin of error. Santas other son Arthur (voice of James McAvoy) thinks that one is two many and that he will go and deliver the present himself. So he enlists the help of Grandsanta (voice of Bill Nighy) who reveals that he still has Santas old sleigh and some reindeer and they can deliver the present before sunrise.

I wasn’t expecting much from this movie. I only went because I had a few hours to kill and it was half price movie night. I was pleasantly surprised to find it reached my expected level of amusement and was a decent Christmas movie. There are some good jokes and a decent story. If you have the time, or some small children. Go see this movie, its quite good.