Christmas Eve, 23:00 hours. A team of elf commandos target a town. They enter a house through windows, the catflap and – yes – the chimney. They drop the presents, chomp the mince pies and are gone. Christmas has been militarised. In Aardman's second CG feature, bumbling Santa Claus (Jim Broadbent) is a figurehead, while his eldest son, Steve (Hugh Laurie) – an espresso-slurping technocrat with a goatee in the shape of a fir tree – has taken the reins. Only the youngest Claus, Arthur, really cares about a merry Christmas, and when a present goes astray it's Arthur who makes it his mission to deliver it. The superb script comes wrapped in layers of meaning – inter-family strife, complacency and competitiveness – and underneath the Pixarish packaging it's just plain fun. A joyful, simple Christmas movie with a heartfelt message. (Taken from guardian.co.uk)
A cute film, but just not as good as previous Aardman films. It has nothing on my childhood favourite, Wallace and Gromit.
My Star Rating:
7/ 10 *
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