Movie Review - Arthur Christmas

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Spoiler Alerts 2011 With so many Christmas movies on a similar theme it was great to see a truly original take on the Xmas story, and a character named after me too. Yay! Arthur Christmas tells of four generations of the Santa family, (Arthur being the youngest and clumsiest). The more traditional elder Santa, now over 130 years old, is officially retired, while his son has replaced the traditional sleigh and reindeer team with a high tech space-ship (Santa One, or S1 for short), and has an army of elves who use SAS / Navy Seal style tactics to evade being spotted and in the interests of efficiency. Arthur has a minor role in replying to letters to Santa, but when he finds a single good child has not received the bike he personally promised her, he is shocked to find his elders are indifferent to putting the matter right in the last remaining hours of Christmas Day. Arthur and his ageing great Grandfather get the old sleigh and flying reindeers out and try to deliver the bike the old fashioned way, with many misadventures on route causing their family to reunite in rescuing them and ensuring Xmas is a 100 % delivery success rate for all. Great comedy and lots of heart from the team responsible for Wallace & Gromit. Arthur Chappell