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The official trailer can be viewed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tIC8I9CuPY&feature=related here.]
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▲* [[Three D Movie]]
* [[Abstract Scale]]: The weight of the load in Santa's sleigh, as seen in the opening, is measured in [[Play Station|Playstations]], [[Sony|of course]].
* [[Adorkable]]: Arthur, the title character.
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* [[Ambiguously Human]]: The Clauses.
* [[Badass Santa]]: While Steve isn't actually Santa, he more or less fills this role. Doubles as [[Badass in A Nice Suit]], since his version of the costume is a {{spoiler|Versace}}.
* [[Bland
* [[Berserk Button]]: Never mess with the wrapping if Bryony is on duty!
* [[Brick Joke]]: Grandsanta impresses Arthur by making a cloud snowman. Quite a while later {{spoiler|as part of the news reports about the 'alien menace'}} we see it has morphed into a more terrifying shape on one of the North Pole news screens.
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* [[Determinator]]: Gwen ''will'' get that bike if Arthur has anything to say about it, dammit.
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Grandsanta.}} In an extremely touching moment, he sacrifices himself to protect Arthur - but it turns out he {{spoiler|outfell the explosion and shows up a couple minutes later in a wheely bin.}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The high-tech actions of the elves at each landing site are a bit like ''[[Prep and Landing]]'' turned [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Doing in The Wizard]]: There is very little actual magic in the movie, besides the pixie dust that enables flight. Even the original sleigh had mechanisms in it. (Elfin "magic" in general seems to be a case of [[Clarke's Third Law]] in this setting.)
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: The Clauses; they're even described that way in one of the official synopses of the film. Steve and Grandsanta are constantly battling over the way to handle the operation, Malcolm is relatively out of touch with everything, Margaret is the [[Only Sane Man]] who tries to maintain order, and Arthur...just wants everyone to be happy. {{spoiler|By the end of the film, they are.}}
* [[Everyone Is Christian At Christmas]]: According to the statistics, averted. They deliver two billion presents, but only to six hundred million children out of the world's 1.9 billion.
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* [[Genki Girl]]: Bryony.
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Grandsanta. He's 136 years old, and doesn't hesitate to act like it.
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* [[Happily Married]]: Malcolm and Margaret - Santa and Mrs. Claus, that is.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Arthur suffers an intense one {{spoiler|after he realizes his father, Malcolm, doesn't truly live up to the mythic image of Santa, being instead a doddering figurehead.}}
* [[How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and Played Straight: The answer {{spoiler|in the coda is to have several ''thousand'' reindeer pulling a gigantic sleigh in more the shape of a plane than anything else}}, as well as having an army of extremely well-organized and co-ordinated elves visit every single house, with Santa placing the last present of the operation himself.
* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Arthur wears one. ''Willingly.'' (Granted, tacky Christmas sweaters are part of the season's magic for some.)
** According to the production notes, he has a Christmas sweater [[Up to Eleven|for every day of the year.]]
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** Also, the movie shows the Centre in Toronto as being spelled as "Center," the American spelling of centre.
** Screenwriter/Co-Director Sarah Smith explains their awareness of differences in Christmas celebrations internationally, and why certain things were ignored [http://collider.com/sarah-smith-arthur-christmas-interview/119576/ in this interview].
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Arthur, at first.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Michael Giacchino]] wrote a score that ended up being rejected. Harry Gregson-Williams replaced him.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
* [[You Are Not Ready]]: {{spoiler|Steve himself admits he's not the one to be the next Santa at the end of the film and allows Arthur to succeed their father, having been impressed by his determination in getting Gwen's present delivered in a timely fashion and learned a lesson in humility in the process.}}
* [[You Are Number Six]]: To Steve, the little girl who was overlooked is a multiple-digit number, illustrating that he views children as statistics rather than people. To Arthur, however, she's Gwen. It's indicative of their jobs; Steve is the one who utilizes technology to make the entire operation run efficiently, while Arthur actually answers the letters children write to Santa and thus engages with them on a personal level.
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