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

Arthur Christmas

Movie20111sa 37dkstar6.8(1,662)trending_up8
DramaAnimationFamilyComedy
Director:Sarah Smith

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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StatusReleased
Release DateNovember 10, 2011
Release Dates
Austria:
Theatrical - Nov 18, 2011
Australia:
Theatrical - Nov 24, 2011 (G)
Brazil:
Theatrical - Nov 23, 2011 (L)
Canada:
Theatrical - Nov 22, 2011 (G)
Czechia:
Digital - Dec 8, 2011 (U)
Runtime1sa 37dk
Budget$10,000,000
Revenue$151,300,000
Profit$141,300,000
Origin CountryUnited States
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish, Español

Production Companies

Columbia PicturesSony Pictures AnimationAardman

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r96sk7/10

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 Ni…

CinemaSerf7/10

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 …

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