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A hilarious Santa Claus road trip movie
Arthur Christmas mixes comedy, a road trip concept, a mission, and a Christmas themed movie into this watchful delight. One sidenote about the motivation is how “worry can get you there.” Arthur, in particular, does the final act of the movie with his improvised team by “doing it with worry”. Worry is a joy-eater and never an excellent emotional state to motivate you to accomplish anything. Jesus Christ coming to relieve us of worry and freeing us from sin is the reason for Christmas, so having a message about doing things with worry counteracts the meaning of Christmas.
A tiresome deconstruction of the Santa Claus idea
You will find it hard to empathize with the characters in the film, especially the titular character who is the estranged brother of Santa Claus. It is apparent that it doesn’t have the complete feel of a Christmas movie despite the theme being about what is defined as Naughty or Nice and how it affects people. While there are no woke elements, I do have some criticisms about the messaging in the movie. The story centers around how people should not be labeled “Naughty” based on their actions and rather by why they act that way. A big flaw in this philosophy however is that everyone falls short of the good standard, even Santa Claus in this movie. Because, if even Santa Claus is a bad judge, who are we judge ourselves? Another critique is the usage of the word “Saint” and the explanation of how the Claus managed to live long. It is a misuse of the word and is simply an artistic license.
An imperfect but classic Holiday film
The scripting and writing are questionable, but it still provides plenty of laughs, a somewhat coherent Christmas message and an essence of escapism that provides a decent film. It also helps that it is one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's final comedy roles before he sadly went into politics. He plays a father named Howard who is struggling to be there for his family on Christmas and learns that time with them matters more than gifts; Howard even tries to go to great lengths to keep his wife safe from his next-door sleazy neighbor. Recently, TV airings of the movie edit out some certain scenes, possibly out of DEI “removing objectionable material”. One is Howard attempting to get a Turbo-Man toy, the hotly coveted toy that the plot wraps around, from an old lady who had it on layaway. Another is a counterfeiter Santa, a small man, who was attacking Howard, only to be accidentally punched across the room by another counterfeiter Santa trying to attack Howard as well.
Mostly for Markiplier, Dawko and FNAF fans only
It's not a terrible movie and there's zero woke aspects to the film, but the viewer has to be a FNAF fan to truly understand the movie. I know because my wife absolutely loves Five Nights at Freddy's. There's characters in this film that you just won't know or understand if you haven't played the games. As a casual FNAF player who really hasn't played the 2nd game or others in the franchise, I was quite lost in this PG-13 film. There's not much violence or plot to keep a part-time player interested. However, if you're a fan, this movie is the bomb! Seems like they get the canon right and the characters are spot-on. I'd highly recommend this movie for fans of the game.
