An average movie

Since I kept hearing some good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. On top of that, I always had a weak spot for the features delivered  by Aardman. Well, eventually, to be honest, even though it was a decent watch, I thought the whole thing was rather disappointing. Basically, it was Aardman's 2nd CGI animated feature after 'Flushed Away' and, once again, I just had a really hard time to care about their tale. At least, this time,  I think they improved on the animation but they took some risks by going for yet another Christmas story and it didn’t really work out, I'm afraid. Obviously, they thought they would be clever by focusing on some parent of Santa Claus but it was actually a rather weak concept which, on top of that, had a already been used at least once before, in 'Fred Claus', arguably  one of the worst Christmas movies ever made. Furthermore, I didn’t care much about the whole modern operation behind Santa's work, it was neither cool, funny or entertaining in my opinion. Eventually, it is only when Grandsanta got involved that this story started to take off and I think the whole thing would have been more interesting if they would have focused on him going AWOL with his good old slay. To conclude, even though I didn't care much for the whole thing, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

6/10