festive cheer: sufficiently advanced Christmas magic
this is one of the cleverest and most original holiday fantasies of recent vintage
From the folks at Aardman (who gave us Wallace & Gromit) comes sci-fi-tinged action comedy Arthur Christmas. Arthur (the voice of James McAvoy), Santa’s second son, races to ensure that no child is left behind, giftwise, on Christmas Eve, with the help of elf Bryony, Wrapping Operative Grade Three (the voice of Ashley Jensen), one of the coolest cartoon…