Arthur Christmas Movie Trailer
A wasted opportunity in that for all its good ideas and the stuff that it gets right, parts of it are predictable, cliched or just mildly unlikable. It never reaches its full potential, but it has a strong concept to go on and its very much an Aardman production in that whilst it... read more's not really hugely funny, it's incredibly charming.
The character designs are horrible and bland and the animation is boring and dull - it would look nicer if it was Aardman's usual stop-motion rather than CGI, but then I'd feel bad on them for putting so much effort into its look when it needed more effort putting into the script.
The cast is all great - but that doesn't stop the elves all being incredibly annoying due to their obvious character design and chipmunked vocals. But still, James McAvoy does his best to liven up a hideously generic character and Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie and especially Bill Nighy bring their usual extremely high quality work to the table.
And I should emphasise what I said before. It's very charming. So it has an interesting concept, a good cast and it's charming. It's far from being anything remarkable, but it's a decent enough effort and the best Christmas family film probably since 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. And whilst it can't hold a candle to that film, it shits all over 'The Polar Express'.
Worth watching when it inevitably enters a cycle of being on the BBC every Christmas in 2 years time, but not worth making a trip to the cinema for.
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The character designs are horrible and bland and the animation is boring and dull - it would look nicer if it was Aardman's usual stop-motion rather than CGI, but then I'd feel bad on them for putting so much effort into its look when it needed more effort putting into the script.
The cast is all great - but that doesn't stop the elves all being incredibly annoying due to their obvious character design and chipmunked vocals. But still, James McAvoy does his best to liven up a hideously generic character and Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie and especially Bill Nighy bring their usual extremely high quality work to the table.
And I should emphasise what I said before. It's very charming. So it has an interesting concept, a good cast and it's charming. It's far from being anything remarkable, but it's a decent enough effort and the best Christmas family film probably since 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. And whilst it can't hold a candle to that film, it shits all over 'The Polar Express'.
Worth watching when it inevitably enters a cycle of being on the BBC every Christmas in 2 years time, but not worth making a trip to the cinema for.
Watch Movie Trailer on YouTube
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