History WesternAnimation / ArthurChristmas

* MustHaveCaffeine: Steve drinks a lot of espresso, to judge by the repeated mentions.

* NoAntagonist

* HowCanSantaDeliverAllThoseToys: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and Played Straight: The answer [[spoiler: in the coda is to have several ''thousand'' reindeer pulling a gigantic sleigh in more the shape of a plane than anything else]], as well as having an army of extremely well-organized and co-ordinated elves visit every single house, with Santa placing the last present of the operation himself.

** Steve isn't but he views Malcolm's attempts to deliver Gwen's present in this way.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The movie has at least four references to drinking, and two references to [[CrossesTheLineTwice children drinking.]]

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imagesCAV7956T_7041.jpg''Arthur Christmas'' is a 2011 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated film]] produced by AardmanAnimations. It is their second attempt at CGI and their first film produced in their new partnership with Creator/{{Sony}} Pictures Animation.

The film's voice cast includes [[JamesMcavoy James McAvoy]] as Arthur, HughLaurie as Steve, Jim Broadbent as Malcolm, Ashley Jensen as Bryony and Bill Nighy as Grandsanta. The film was set for release on November 11, 2011, in the United Kingdom, and November 23, 2011, in the United States.

* [[CoolShip Cool Sleigh]]: The S-1. A couple miles long, with flawless camouflage, capable of traveling seven million miles in a single night. And it runs on milk and cookies!

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The polar bear in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjMjaN_mEE&feature=relmfu teaser trailer]].

* CharacterBlog: There is a [[http://twitter.com/#!/notanelf twitter acount]] for someone called 'notanelf'

* [[CoolShip Cool Sleigh]]: The S-1. A couple miles long, with flawless camouflage, capable of travelling seven million miles in a single night. And it runs on milk and cookies!

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imagesCAV7956T_7041.jpg''Arthur Christmas'' is a 2011 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated film]] produced by AardmanAnimations. It is their second attempt at CGI and their first film produced in their new partnership with {{Sony}} Pictures Animation.

* AbstractScale: The weight of the load in Santa's sleigh, as seen in the opening, is measured in {{Playstation}}s, [[{{Sony}} of course]].

* BlandNameProduct: The HOHO 3000 trackers are apparently manufactured by [[{{Sony}} Snowy]]. PlayedForLaughs, given the fact that we see many more {{Sony}} products throughout the film.

* CriticalResearchFailure: There is a city named Trelew in a Spanish-speaking country on the other side of the Atlantic from the one in Cornwall, but it's in Argentina, not Mexico.

The film is set on Christmas Eve, and at last reveals the answer to every child's question: "So how does SantaClaus deliver all those presents in one night?" It is thanks to Santa's ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. It also turns out that being Santa Claus is an inheritable position, passed from father to son. Except this time, there are ''two'' sons who are prospective Santas: Arthur, whose heart is in the right place but is a bumbler, and his brother Steve, who is extremely efficient but more serious. Their father, the current Santa, is little more than a figurehead who isn't familiar with how anything in his company works, and is blissfully unaware of the brothers' rivalry. When one out of the 2 billion presents is accidentally not delivered, it's up to Arthur to complete the mission - with a little help from the his grandfather (the previous Santa Claus) and a plucky female elf named Bryony - before Christmas morning dawns and a child's heart breaks. This must be done, of course, without being discovered by the rest of the world. Naturally, [[HilarityEnsues this turns out to be much harder than it sounds]].

The film's voice cast includes [[JamesMcavoy James McAvoy]] as Arthur, HughLaurie as Steve, Ashley Jensen as Bryony and Bill Nighy as Grandsanta. The film was set for release on November 11, 2011, in the United Kingdom, and November 23, 2011, in the United States.

The film is set on Christmas Eve, and at last reveals the answer to every child's question: "So how does SantaClaus deliver all those presents in one night?" It is thanks to Santa's ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. It also turns out that being Santa Claus is an inheritable position, passed from father to son. Except this time, there are ''two'' sons who are prospective Santas: Arthur, whose heart is in the right place but is a bumbler, and his brother Steve, who is extremely efficient but more serious. When one out of the 2 billion presents is accidentally not delivered, it's up to Arthur to complete the mission - with a little help from the his grandfather (the previous Santa Claus) and a plucky female elf named Bryony - before Christmas morning dawns and a child's heart breaks. This must be done, of course, without being discovered by the rest of the world. Naturally, [[HilarityEnsues this turns out to be much harder than it sounds]].

** "Christmas: The Board Game" is obviously based on ''{{Monopoly}}'', even having similar pieces.

The film is set on Christmas Eve, and at last reveals the answer to every child's question: "So how does SantaClaus deliver all those presents in one night?" It is thanks to Santa's ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. It also turns out that being Santa Claus is an inheritable position, passed from father to son. Except this time, there are ''two'' sons who are prospective Santas: the titular Arthur, whose heart is in the right place but is a bumbler, and his brother Steve, who is extremely efficient but more serious. When one out of the 2 billion presents is missed, it's up to Arthur to complete the mission - with a little help from the his grandfather (the previous Santa Claus) and a plucky female elf named Bryony - before Christmas morning dawns and a child's heart breaks. This must be done, of course, without being discovered by the rest of the world. Naturally, [[HilarityEnsues this turns out to be much harder than it sounds]].

** On a slightly smaller scale, Bryony will ''not'' see a present being delivered unwrapped it, even if she has to wrap it while Arthur still needs to ''use'' it.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: In Denmark, we see that people have a turkey in the oven come Christmastime, and Christmas stockings hanging by the fireplace. There's no reason why they should. That's not how a Danish Christmas works. To be fair, there are a lot of things the film did get right, such as the German custom of leaving shoes out instead of stockings, and even a quick reference to the Finnish myth that Santa lives in Laapland.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: MichaelGiacchino wrote a score that ended up being rejected. Harry Gregson-Williams replaced him.

** Eve is too, in her own dilapidated, [[SteamPunk steampunky]] way. Even at a hundred and seventy years old, she's more powerful than any other aircraft aside from the S-1. She's even [[BeyondTheImpossible space-capable]].