But then, they made Santa Claus looked incompetent.
And that wasn't the only time, because Jim Broadbent's character as Santa was really just an incompetent old fool as the story progressed along.
And to me, I didn't want my Santa to be that guy. Not at all.
One thing I couldn't be sure though, was how the story made the Claus family looked human, relatable and just like any family everywhere else. So I once again was unsure if I wanted that family to be my Santa Claus.
Voice-acting wise, of course no complaints there. I'm looking at the name list on IMDb and am surprised that there's Joan Cusack and Eva Longoria in smaller roles but I didn't recognise them. Hugh Laurie was however far too easy to spot.
The story in the middle got a bit slow and tedious. I think I almost fell asleep once or twice. And if a movie cannot keep my tired eyes open, in some ways it has failed.
Plus, our hero voiced by James McAvoy motivated himself using "worrying". Now that is a very negative term so it's not easy to spin it into a positive tool to use.
But towards the end, it did redeem itself. I couldn't stop the tears forming in my eyes and was really into the last bits so the storytellers accomplished something great there. Because in the end it wasn't really about the Christmas magic anymore but about human compassion and authenticity.
To me, that's what saved the day. The plot, I wasn't too big a fan of.
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