Set on Christmas night, the story of Arthur Christmas at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic - a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
This movie decided to push the whole dysfunctional family bit using the Claus family this time. Apparantly they are a bunch of selfish, thick headed men who are really the opposite of "Christmas spirit" except for the youngest son Arthur who is a textbook clutz. All the grandfather cares about it showing the oldest son and heir apparant Steve that he is right. Steve just wants to be named Santa because he knows everything and Santa is portrayed as a lazy one that just wants to sleep after not really doing anything. It was all a little too much waa-waa for me. The elves were cool and provided most of the funny lines, but that was really about it.
I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to see this. It's not horrible. It's somewhat watchable but there has to be better movies you could see or just pop in a much better Holiday movie.
