Lucian Arrow's Reviews
Burning ruin of rationality because of Wokeness
Environmentalism is still a large part of the film’s narrative, so is the biased assumption of skin color and morality as Quaritch once brought up, and even a pregnant alien female takes part in the battle that is very irresponsible just for a show of feminism, that and other instances of feminist “warrior” culture.
Paganism is plenty in this movie. Aside from deifying the environment as some sort of God that hates humans, it emphasizes the message of following your path in faith that is a displacement of the message that God determines our paths out of goodness. On top of that, the “goddess” of Pandora is made to be a manifestation of nature against mankind. It also pushes transhumanism in the transformation of Spyder to become a Pandora native.
Created: 12-30-2025
A pet lover’s heartwarming movie to warm the heart for Christmas
Biblical lessons are abounded in this movie for Great American Family Channel, that truly keeps the promise of keeping things biblical with none of the wokeness. God brings us on paths we did not expect and James 1 speaks of how God will put us in trials to strengthen us. This is what happens when a veteran forced to retire after a career ending injury meets a pet adoption center owner and starts a partnership that blossoms.
Created: 12-26-2025
Excellent Christmas celebration movie special
An emotional and holy celebration of why Christmas is celebrated worldwide. It reorganizes scenes from The Chosen show to create a narrative that tells the birth of Jesus Christ as told in Luke 2.
Created: 12-26-2025
A new Christmas musical classic for Christmas concert lovers
Faith based and Biblically based magical film telling the story of Christ, the Nativity and Christmas through their live performance.
I first saw this with my church group at a theater and I highly recommend this for those who want a musical and Christmas based experience!
Created: 12-25-2025
Very funny – albeit too inuendo filled -Christmas classic
The movie is filled with too many innuendo moments, but is still a funny feature that my dad finds hilarious.
There is a clever joke derived from a biblical verse. When Clark Griswold unwittingly drives the car with his family underneath a logging truck, his wife Ellen prays to God asking for forgiveness on part for Clark’s stupidity paraphrasing Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Created: 12-25-2025
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.
Created: 12-25-2025
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.
Created: 12-25-2025
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.
Created: 12-25-2025
The Wish of Wokeness Permeated
Puss in Boots is made into more of an irresponsible hero for a few reasons that if removed, would not make the story possible.
By making him a fool, whose life is now in the balance thanks to using up his eight other lives, the writers can make Kitty Softpaws a typical aggressive feminist and “righteous” heroine. SPOILER ALERT- a main point of contention with this argument is the fact that Puss left Kitty on the marriage altar, leaving her angry and heartbroken, but then she reveals she never showed up either. So, what is the point of being angry upon reuniting if both of them neither showed up?
Second, the choice of adding an “emotional support dog” voiced by a queer man makes this a poor choice to cast and merely an excuse to add diversity. On top, adding a mentally messed up dog and presenting him as “emotionally pure” don’t mix.
Finally, while the Shrek franchise doesn’t shy from making artistic choices with fairy tale characters, presenting an impromptu crime family as sympathetic, given it is the feminist human leading them only adds a feminist rapport that is already propped up by Kitty Softpaws.
Created: 12-21-2025
A woke modern Christmas-less action flick
It has all the looks and set pieces of a Christmas movie, but it doesn’t feel like one. More like an action film clothed in Christmas clothes.
While it is dubious as to whether to cast the Rock as the main character is not based on DEI decisions, the choice to cast Lucy Liu as MORA Director Zoe Harlow can definitely be seen as a feminist appeal casting. The character Zoe acts as a domineering mean woman boss to even those who have the option to become nice such as Chris Evans’ Jack, no matter how little it was written.
Featuring Krampus does not bring a certain festive feel to a Christmas movie and even putting a light tone on Krampus’ characterization and relationship with Santa Claus is not in line because Krampus and his “holiday” is the opposite of Christmas. It is more likely that it is a “diversity holiday inclusion”.
Created: 12-21-2025
