Arthur Christmas

I saw this teaser trailer for Arthur Christmas which will be coming to a festive cinema screens on November 23rd...this is another animated film with James McAvoy, lets hope that this will be a little bit better than 'Gnomeo and Juliet', which I can probably guess he only did as the team behind Elton John and David Furnish's retelling of the classic Shakespeare tale of the two star crossed lovers...but done in a political correctness gone mad with making this tale a PG and using animated gnomes to make it less upsetting...was only because they threw a big wadge of money at him.

So fingers crossed that this other family fun animated film will do a little bit better. I mean it has to do a better as Hugh Laurie will also feature in this film that was produced by Aardman Entertainmet in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, and co-directed by Sara Smith and Barry Smith...this script has also been written by Sara Smith and Peter Baynham who was behind Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Making Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakstan, therefore there is bound to be some comedy in this even if I didn't find it funny! 

The story is that Jim Broadbent (Santa Clause) is aging and has now become out of touch with the fast pace of today's generation so his son Steve (Hugh Laurie) takes over the family business and runs it very efficiently with an army of elves, a spaceship that has a cloaking device and other devices that have replaced Santa's traditional sleigh. Therefore this has left Santa effectivley become a figurehead. Steve though, after a successful Christmas eve, he doesn't get to become Santa and is therefore crushed when his father decides to hang on to the title a little longer. 

This is were James McAvoy's character comes in as he plays Arthur the younger brother of Steve who is very clumsy and good natured, and no one takes him seriously and just dismisses him. But he doesn't care about this as he is fully devoted to the idea of Christmas and to the shitty job that he has been given as to be Santa Claus's mailman. 

However after the good Christmas eve work of Steve, and as he is congratulating himself at the annual Christmasy dinner with Steve, GranSanta (Bill Nighy), Mrs. Santa (Imelda Staunton)...GrandSanta also believes that things in his day were better, but here is where Arthur finds out that one child was missed. SHOCK HORROR!

Steve wants to deliver this present after Christmas...but here is where GrandSanta prepopses to Arthur to go on sleigh and with the retired reindeer to take this present to the girl as Arthur is distraught that this has happened, here is where the adventure begins and their journey is helped along by an elf who is voiced by Ashley Jenson who is one of the Giftwrap Batallion called Bryony.

So although this looks like there are a few comedy quips here and there in this film....the animation looks really good to me. But then again this film's audience really isn't focusing on 20/21yr olds like myself being in the audience....but then again the only animated film I am looking forward to is Puss In Boots getting his own film. 

Think I'm on my own here...by the way if you want to see this then you can look at this below