Family

Arthur Christmas came out on DVD this past Tuesday, and my family and I were pretty excited about it since we hadn’t seen it in theaters. Though the movie pretty much bombed at the box office, it was given high flying marks with the critics and for good reason. The movie is absolutely adorable, even if it does have a few sexist jokes—aimed both at men and women.

The film is about the current Santa—descended from a long line of human Santas—and his two sons, Arthur and Steve. Steve is an efficient, no-nonsense militaristic man who keeps Christmas on schedule while Arthur is loveable but clumsy, and assigned to the mailroom due to his tendency to create messes. Steve is destined to be the next Santa, and Arthur is fine with this—but when a mistake happens on Christmas Eve, it is Arthur who comes through, not his brother, and shows his true colors as a man who loves Christmas as well as children.