Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas is a 2011 BritishAmerican 3D computer animated Christmas comedy film, produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation as their first collaborative project. The film was released onNovember 2011, in the UK, and onNovember 2011, in the USA.

On Christmas Eve, hundreds of Christmas elves helm the command centre of Santa Clauss milewide, ultrahightech sleighesque craft, the S1. The current Santa Malcolm and the Christmas elves deliver presents to every child in the world using advanced equipment and military precision. These complex operations are micromanaged by Malcolms oldest son Steve and his obsequious elfin assistant Peter among thousands of more elves at mission control underneath the North Pole, while Steves clumsy and panophobic younger brother Arthur answers the letters to Santa. During a delivery operation, when a child wakes up and almost sees Malcolm, a Christmas elf back in the S1 inadvertently presses a button, causing a present to fall off a conveyor and go unnoticed.Having completed his 70th mission, Malcolm is portrayed as far past his prime and whose role in field operations now is largely symbolic. Nonetheless, he is held in high esteem, and delivers a congratulatory speech to the enraptured elves. Much to Steves frustration, who has long anticipated succeeding his father, Malcolm announces he looks forward to his 71st. During their family Christmas dinner, Arthurs suggestion for the family to play a board game degenerates into a petty quarrel between Malcolm and Steve, while Malcolms father and predecessor Grandsanta, bored by retirement, resentfully criticizes their overmodernization. Distraught, the various family members leave the dinner table. When Arthur humbly compliments Steve that he believes he will be a great Santa Claus, Steve rudely dismisses Arthurs overture. Later, their father shares with his wife Margaret his grave doubts about his selfidentity should he retire. ........

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