Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas is a 2011 British-American 3D computer animated Christmas comedy film, produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation as their first collaborative project. The film was released on 11 November 2011, in the UK, and on 23 November 2011, in the USA. Directed by Sarah Smith, and co-directed by Barry Cook, it stars the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen. Set on Christmas night, the film tells a story about Santa Claus's clumsy son Arthur Claus who discovers that the Santa's high-tech ship has failed to deliver one girl's present. In response, he goes on a mission to save her Christmas, accompanied only by his aging grandfather, a rebellious yet enthusiastic young Christmas Elf obsessed with wrapping gifts for children, and a team of eight strong, magical yet untrained reindeer. Arthur Christmas was very well received by critics, who praised its animation and humorous, smart and heart-warming story. The film earned $147 million at the box office on a $100 million budget.

Production: Sony Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PG
Year:
2011
97
$46,440,491
Website
5,553 Views

Arthur:
[In Cayo Confites, Cuba, Arthur picks up Gwen's letter that almost got burnt because Bryony accidentally put it in a fire at the beach and realizes the picture is of Santa] This Picture, This Drawing! It isn't of Dad, or You, or Steve! This is Santa! Ha-Ha! And as long as we can get the bike to Gwen before dawn, then Santa CAME! AND HE CARES! Ha-Ha!

Arthur:
[the Reindeer picks up the Slipper, Arthur picks up the bike and starts singing and dancing] Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! Jingle all the way! Oh what fun it is to reach Gwen Hines on Christmas Day, Wha-Hey! [the Boat on the island has been taken away by Arthur and he has written a message in the sand where it used to sit saying "SORRY I BORROWED THIS]

Arthur:
[the next scene where Arthur is rowing Grandsanta & Bryony across the Atlantic Ocean, 3000 miles to Trelew, England] Jingle Bells! This Boat Smells! Three Thousand miles to go!

Grandsanta:
[Arthur, Grandsanta & Bryony are in the middle of the Atlantic] I've seen this before! Sleigh fever they call it! The Pressure of Christmas sends a man doo-lellied-tap! Santa Claus XVI of 1802! Every child that year got a sausage nailed to a piece of bark!

Bryony:
[Arthur labours to row the boat across the ocean, he makes the boat jerk and soaks Bryony & Grandsanta with the oars] Arthur! Do you really think you can row the Atlantic Ocean in the next

Bryony:
[Calculates the time on her HO-HO] Thirty-seven minutes?

Arthur:
[Continues labouring to row across the Atlantic Ocean] It's not too late yet! We just have to keep going!

Grandsanta:
We need a blunt Instrument, knock him out and then regroup

Bryony:
[Bryony's HO-HO claims that they are going round in circles] You do know that we are going round in circles?

Grandsanta:
Do you know? We are not the only ones! Maybe I will see Evie again!

Arthur:
What do you mean?

Grandsanta:
Reindeer are brave, powerful beasts, but they are also dappled creatures with twigs on their heads! They will just keep going in straight lines right around the world. They will be way up in the sky, flying at unimaginable speeds, but they'll pass right over our heads!

Arthur:
Great! We CAN get the sleigh back!

Grandsanta:
[Arthur, Grandsanta & Bryony have just left Idaho with the fake reindeer attached to the sleigh, they are halfway across the Atlantic Ocean] Christmas 1923, I had a heart attack at the reigns. Left ventricle popped out my mouth, pushed it back down and carried on.

Arthur:
[looks over the ledge of the sleigh and sees nothing but water all around] Big isn't it? The Atlantic! Do you think we should stop and ask someone?

Grandsanta:
Fishy nibbles, come on, we are nearly there!

[points to a slow moving streak of light]

Grandsanta:
You see, I take the north star, there, a fixed point, and I plot my bearings...

Bryony:
That's a plane, Sir!

Grandsanta:
It's a Co-ordination, Elf, I'll have you harpooned!

Arthur:
[looks down and sees something that looks like an island disappearing under rising sea levels] I thought it would be chillier here in England?

Grandsanta:
Globular Warming. [Sees land ahead and starts heading for it] Hah! There it is! Told you!

Arthur:
[They land in Tanzania, Africa] Wow! England?

[a huge beetle crawls over Arthur]

Arthur:
Yyaaarrggh!

Grandsanta:
Maybe we pullled to the right a bit since we're a reindeer short. France! Bonjour! Ou est la Boulangerie?

Arthur:
[Hears an Elephant] They have elephants in France?

Grandsanta:
The odd stray, they breed in the drains. Come this way, everyone!

[They look around and realize they landed up in some animal sanctuary]

Grandsanta:
Paris zoo?

Bryony:
[Lions get agitated and start roaring] This must be where they keep the lions!

[Lions and other animals start marching towards everyone]

Santa:
[trying to operate the S-1 himself, denting it and jolting it violently, Flashing red lights flash all over the S-1's bridge] OK! 23 Mimosa Avenue, Trelew

Mrs. Santa:
[Reading the manual] Reading up! There is no harm in using the manual

Santa:
[Agitated, pressing buttons, levers and knobs all over the bridge causing the S-1 to rock and sway violently] Margaret! I Order you to DISEMBARK! It's not safe!

Mrs. Santa:
[Trying to calm Santa] I did a microlight flying course on the internet! It can't be that different!

Santa:
[Steve appears at the doors to the bridge] Oh! Steve!

Steve:
[Santa accidentally leans on a lever and the S-1 jolts more violently] You've DENTED IT! You've taken it out without asking!

Mrs. Santa:
[stabilizes the S-1] Malcolm, you told me he knew! You know how Steve feels about his S-1

Santa:
[presses more buttons and levers causing it to rock and sway even more violently] It's MY S-1! S for Santa, I'm flying to this child!

Steve:
Of course, she is all that matters, not me! Your SON! Not the Two Billion things I didn't write tonight! NOOOoooo!

Santa:
This is about the pool table isn't it! I told you that you should have written to me!

Steve:
[shouting] I was eight years old! You're my dad!

Mrs. Santa:
[shouting] For Goodness sake!

Mrs. Santa:
[slams her cup down on the controls] Arthur & Grandsanta are out there probably not wearing nearly enough layers of clothing and you two are bickering over a big red toy!

Santa:
I'm... I'm not bickering! If Steven should just Stand back! [Activates the airbag]

S-1 Computer:
[Airbag inflates] Airbag!

Santa:
You drive, Steven? Thank you!

Steve:
[puts on his S-1 gloves, fires up in the S-1] So! Since gift delivery to child 47785BXK is all that seems to matter, I'll do it all myself, and we'll pick up Arthur and Grandsanta from whatever ditch they've ended up in.

S-1 Computer:
[Steve pulls the main lever on the S-1 to go at full throttle] Maximum Velocity!

Steve:
Hold on Tight!

Gwen:
[Gwen's letter to Santa] Dear Santa! Are you real? If you live at the North pole, how come I can't see your house when I look on Google Earth? Are you Saint Nicholas? Because you would be very old! How do you have time to read all the letters from all the children in the world? How many cookies and mince pies have you eaten in all of history? How do you get all the presents in the sack? Does your sack have to get bigger every year because of Exponential Population Growth? And, How do you get down the chimneys? I put my head in mine and it is really small! Even if you could just squeeze down it in just one minute, there are also nine other houses on my block so that would make it about ten minutes and there are millions of roads in the world! It must be so hard being Santa these days. What if after all that, I am staying at my Grandma's? Santa! How can you get round the whole world in just one night? My friends say that you would have to go so fast that it would make you and the sleigh and the reindeers all burn up! For Christmas, I would LOVE a Pink Twinkle Bike complete with stabilizers. But please do not bring it if it makes you and the reindeers burn. Love Gwen Hines, 23 Mimosa Avenue, Trelew, Cornwall, England.

Arthur:
[Arthur hangs up the Picture Gwen drew of Santa and replies] Dear Gwen. Thank you for your Letter and What a Brilliant Picture! Your request for a Pink Twinkle Bike will be passed onto Santa. Yes! Do believe in Santa. He is real! He is the greatest man ever! And he can get around the world to every child without a single reindeer getting roasted ali... hurt. I assure you, by the time the sun rises on Christmas Morning, he will surely get to you using his special magic.

[the Glitter pen that Arthur used to write 'Magic' dissolves into a starry night and the main opening credits roll]


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