Lucian Arrow's Reviews
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
Questionable casting but decent story
Diversity casting and female empowerment aside, there is not much that would detract the story.
Created: 09-01-2025
An excuse for victim culture to be shoved forward
Normally, this is not my kind of movie, but I was prepping my meal and became a captive audience, so here is my dissertation.
This movie glorifies victimhood culture and the victim herself with no regard to morals based on intersectionality and heavy emphasis on emotional appeal.
Straw recycles the same liberal tropes as it had in countless other movies, and the ending does not make the protagonist more sympathetic and leaves things unresolved. Overall, it is a poorly made film with a goal set on pushing an ideology than making a movie that makes you feel better not worse.
Created: 08-31-2025
SEED finally receives a conclusion of sorts- but with an eye gouging.
Gundam SEED's Cosmic Era universe finally receives a worthy conclusion that can be worth seeing again. The main problem though is that it is too fanservice-y.
If Lacus' "normal suit" near the end and the female characters' jarring lip design isn't off-putting, the final shot certainly is. I won't spoil it, but it did make me think "seriously, put on some clothes at least!"
Created: 02-14-2025
LGBTQ instead of mobile suit warfare
Plenty of summaries, reveal of a female protagonist and deuteragonist for the first time in Gundam anime history, and some clip previews tell me much about this show already. LGBTQ is bleaching its way in.
It is even stated outright by Bandai itself, Gundam is on its way to self-destructing, like humanity nearly usually does in Gundam, into wokeness.
Created: 02-14-2025
Anti-Christian at its core
While initially intrigued when it first came out, a watch of this movie on Netflix reveals its woke ideology. It is flagrantly Anti-Christian, it condemns the good news and the word of God in how the religion treats the titular monster. It also stars a feminist protagonist and a slightly incompetent male deuteragonist. If you cherish Christianity, don't watch this movie.
Created: 02-14-2025
