{"id":4533,"date":"2025-12-23T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:39:05","slug":"movie-arthur-christmas-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/movie-arthur-christmas-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Arthur Christmas (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ArthurArthur Christmas
<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2011
Rating: PG
Length: 97 minutes \/ 1.62 hours<\/p>\n

There are plenty of Christmas movies out there that explore the different aspects of Santa in lots of different ways. Whether it\u2019s the \u201corigin story\u201d of Klaus<\/em><\/a> (2019) or the \u201clegal magic\u201d of The Santa Clause<\/em> (1994), there are many different interpretations of the magical main character of the holiday season. The one that does its best to modernize and show the logistical challenge of delivering presents to every kid on Earth in one night is none other than Arthur Christmas<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always loved Aardman animation, so it felt a little weird to me to see them work their family-friendly magic in this movie with a visual style that did not fit most of their previous work (like Wallace & Gromit<\/em>). Still, their standard British humor shines through here while also managing to be a heartwarming story of family and legacy. If anything, their version of the Santa Claus mythos makes the most sense with as little magic introduced into the formula as possible (although, most advanced military technologies could be considered magic anyway).<\/p>\n

The interesting thing about Arthur Christmas<\/em> is that it\u2019s really about different approaches to the same problem (the logistics of a one-night present delivery service) while forgetting the most important reason it was being done in the first place. That there are several generations of \u201cSanta,\u201d each of whom has a different idea on how to accomplish this task, is an interesting twist on the formula. The heart of the story, though, isn\u2019t about how traditional or fast this feat is accomplished, but about the recipients on the other end. Kids don\u2019t care how they get their presents, only that someone cared enough to listen to them.<\/p>\n

Aardman\u2019s take on the Santa story via military-level logistics, I give Arthur Christmas<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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