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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.
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10/11/2011
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James McAvoy
Arthur (voice)
Hugh Laurie
Steve (voice)
Bill Nighy
Grandsanta (voice)
Jim Broadbent
Santa (voice)
Imelda Staunton
Mrs Santa (voice)
Ashley Jensen
Bryony (voice)
Marc Wootton
Peter (voice)
Laura Linney
North Pole Computer (voice)
Eva Longoria
Chief De Silva (voice)
Ramona Marquez
Gwen (voice)
Michael Palin
Ernie Clicker (voice)
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Lead Elf (voice)
Robbie Coltrane
Lead Elf (voice)
Joan Cusack
Lead Elf (voice)
Rhys Darby
Lead Elf (voice)
Jane Horrocks
Lead Elf (voice)
Iain McKee
Lead Elf (voice)
Andy Serkis
Lead Elf (voice)
Dominic West
Lead Elf (voice)
Peter Baynham
Elf (voice)
Cody Cameron
Elf (voice)
Kevin Cecil
Elf (voice)
Kevin Eldon
Elf (voice)
Rich Fulcher
Elf (voice)
Bronagh Gallagher
Elf (voice)
Pete Jack
Elf (voice)
Danny John-Jules
Elf (voice)
Emma Kennedy
Elf (voice)
Stewart Lee
Elf (voice)
Seamus Malone
Elf (voice)
Kris Pearn
Elf (voice)
Alan Short
Elf (voice)
Sarah Smith
Elf (voice)
Adam Tandy
Elf (voice)
Ryan Patrick Donahoe
Pedro (voice)
Finlay Duff
French Boy (voice)
Rich Hall
Idaho Man (voice)
Clint Dyer
Reporter (voice)
Donnie Long
Reporter (voice)
Jerry Lambert
N.O.R.A.D (voice)
Deborah Findlay
General (voice)
David Schneider
General (voice)
Ian Ashpitel
UNFITA OPS (voice)
Julia Davis
UNFITA OPS (voice)
Kerry Shale
UNFITA OPS (voice)
Tamsin Greig
Additional Voices (voice)
Alistair McGowan
Additional Voices (voice)
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A good watch. I had a fine time watching <em>'Arthur Christmas'</em>. 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.
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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", "Arthu…
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