Arthur Christmas: The Last Great Holiday Movie (@RebelTaxi) 

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Even if in 3D if you look closely you can still notice Aardman’s stylized human designs they’re famous for.

Pan doesn’t make video essays but he is a video ése.

The biggest twist of this movie is that it did not have a twist villain. It would have been so easy to turn one of the protagonist's relative into a villain.

This movie is a true gem and more people need to know about it. I partly blame their first teaser ad where it was just Arthur being a goof around a polar bear. I love protaganists where every character around them has petty/pent up dramas and frustrations, while MCs main motivation is to just maximize happiness. They still have flaws and moments of humanity of course, but seeing a storys moral focus be everyone sorting through their baggage and finding their own happiness at the end because of having the protaganist in their life is special to me.

One thing I’ll definitely remember about this film is the fact that there was a cover of Santa Claus is coming to town done by Justin Bieber made for it, now if that’s not sign of this being product of 2011, then I don’t know what is .

I've personally classified RebelTaxi as some kind of unique video genre that captures the feeling of a magazine and a tv station broadcast. You can tell pan isnt just into cartoons but also entertainment in general and so he innovates. Its totally molded the way I learn about and appreciate stuff.

It sucks that we rarely getting Christmas movies that are as good as Arthur Christmas and Klaus

The art style was a little off-putting at first, but MAN, it had the perfect balance. The animation was fast-paced and had a lot going on, but it never felt overwhelming. I didn't know Aardman had anything to do with it.

Awkward out of context behind the scene footage doesn't exist, it merely retroactively manifests into existence when Pan makes a video of them

My favorite thing about this movie is the fact that everyone works together in the end instead of making the Brother in the wrong.

The reason I think Arthur Christmas is the best Christmas movie; in 9 out of 10 Christmas movies when Christmas is in danger it’s in danger for ALL kids. In Arthur, one girl’s Christmas is in jeopardy and it’s treated with the same gravity as if it were all of them. The takeaway becomes that it doesn’t matter how or who, if every single child doesn’t have the magic of Christmas then we have all failed. Arthur Christmas is a 10/10 movie

This film is ridiculously underappreciated, the music especially is wonderful, no other Christmas film in recent memory has made me truly feel in the Christmas spirit like Arthur Christmas does, and I’m more than happy my dad especially loves to put it on every holiday season since I saw it with him back in 2011.

"Sony used MASSIVE to fill Santa's Workshop with endangered elves. I have more rights than all of them put together." - Pan, 2023 on his stance on the Santa Elves.

I love Arthur Christmas. I didn't see it in theaters, but I've been watching it on TV for years. It's such a sweet and heartfelt movie. Arthur himself is so endearing and genuine with his desire to deliver the present. It would have been incredibly easy to make Steve, Santa or Grand Santa into more traditional villains wanting to take over Christmas. The fact that they don't really helps to make the premise stand out more. They all want to show that their methods of celebrating Christmas is the best one. It also makes the resolution at the end even better. It is such a great Christmas movie and learning more about the production history made it more interesting too.

Dude I love this editing, feels like I’m watching a nice show documentary for kids yet for adults as well. Oddly fun.

I didn’t know this film was under properly of Aardman. Huh, that’s kinda neat and niche to know when they were like, “Screw Dreamworks!” It’s funny because Dreamworks in 2001 was like “Screw Disney” and now we’ve come full circle or triangle lol But yeah I love this movie very much and saw it in theatres in 2011 with my parents. They loved it and so did I like genuine Christmas movie.

15:02 Might be one of your best jokes. Also recognized Peter Baynham for his work on Bob and Margaret. Pretty wild.

I was JUST talking to my friends about how underrated this film is!!

Nothing like a good Rebel Taxi's video while working

One thing i love about this movie is how unrecognizeable their VA to how we usually hear from them. Like they actually try voice acting then just put their normal voice in a cartoon character. I mean James McAvoy voice a character that clumsy,kind,and happy go lucky character which isn't type character we saw for McAvoy.

10:58 Your telling me the guy who wrote the Arthur remake also wrote Arthur Christmas the exact same year,”Coincidence… I think… Probably “.

I was having a super stressful day. Glad to see this in my feed.

Whenever it’s on one topic like this your videos are just perfect. Best in this platform.

I was one of the few people saw it in theatres back in the day, I was 10 and my class went on a field trip to go and I remember enjoying it and I still have fondness for it despite the fact I only saw it that one time 12 years ago lol

Never stop making videos, Pan. been a fan since 2016, and the quality has never dropped.

I think Steve was just gonna use the fact that they missed the one kid on Christmas as an excuse to replace his dad as Santa

I dunno; Jingle Jangle, Robin Robin and the first Christmas Chronicles movie were pretty good. Heck, I'd even give props to Violent Night just for the fact that you can tell that they had fun making it. I wouldn't know about this being the last truly great Christmas flick. EDIT: Oh god, I just realized that 3/4 of the movies I mentioned were streaming exclusives. Holiday movies might actually be in the doldrums

I like how the film does its best to convince you how santa delivers all the gifts and that he's real, but then kinda implies santa can be anyone. it can be your dad. jt can be your brother, it can be you. it's that spirit of giving just to make someone happy. almost as if they're trying to say santa isn't a real person in the north pole. I believe this would be juxtaposition.

Your holiday videos always cheer me up when I'm blue. Thanks pan.

Christmas 2015, I was at a Mexican resort and there were only three channels on our bedroom television. One of them played this movie OVER and OVER for multiple days. It was a very festive memory LOL. I probably saw 5 runs worth of the movie over that one week, and we still quote Briony a lot.

I can understand why aardman went to Netflix, because the movies they were making with DreamWorks animation, Sony pictures, and studiocanal were bombing at the box office.

This film has my favourite version of the Santa mythos. What a wonderfully British film.

I always love Pan's editing. That brief Wererabbit joke with Sonic Unleashed song made me grin from ear to ear.

This is exactly y pan is my favorite youtuber. A 24 minute video about a movie I've never seen or cared about. And it somehow got me wanting to watch it really bad. While keeping me entertained for the entire 24 minutes. Also putting in gurren lagann music in a Christmas movie video is so next level.

I watched this movie in theaters with my mom when I was little and the only moment I could remember was when the elf girl wrapped her own head in a present. Thank you for giving me the urge to rewatch it after all these years :D

"Babe wake up rebel taxi uploaded a vid." "Snores" "On Tuesday " "I'm up"

I swear this movie always fills me with delight every time i watch it, it's got that Aardman "It's Christmas Eve and i'm watching Disney Channel" charm to it.

I rewatch your old Christmas videos every year and I'm SO GLAD you made a new one, especially on a movie I LOVE!

My first thought was literally "what about Klaus?" 😂

At first i was gonna say what about Klaus but was quickly relieved when you mentioned it.

Not even a minute in and that Mark Wahlberg joke already got me cackling💀

I remember I had a field trip to see this movie, i guess it was the only movie empty enough to book enough seats for an entire elementary class.

Yeah, absolutely loved this one when I put on out of random last year. The end is beautiful and legitimately heartwarming beyond belief, this has a better sense of empathy than a majority of Christmas classics imo.

I friggin love this dang movie

Genuinely my favorite Christmas movie from the 2010s (also the only good christmas movie from the 2010s)

Your christmas videos ball so hard that this will be another video i still watch consistently no matter the month. Especially in summer

Loved the video! Watching all the old Christmas videos so this was great to see in my feed

Been watching your channel for the past 5 years, I’ve always loved how you edit your videos to match the holiday spirit. Cozy always, hope you have a good new year.

Honestly even as a British person myself I have trouble understanding people voices at times and jokes too but thats likely just the autism probably. Jokes aside I love this movie because there are no villains in it. Everyone is trying to do good no matter what and I just don't think having a villain in a movie like this would work. The creative ideas of delivering presents to Santa is another favourite thing I love about this movie, its a unique concept that I don't think I ever seen elsewhere in a movie like this before. Its such a underrated gem that definitely needs more love.

Pan, I can't put into words how much your christmas videos mean to me. Sincerely thank you and happy new year!

There's nothing like getting hammered at Applebee's and fighting sasquatch over the last honey bbq chicken wing while Creed "Higher" plays on the radio

ARTHUR'S CHRISTMAS MENTIONED !!! Genuinely though I love this movie, this and Polar Express were my childhood Christmas movies

Wallace the Were-Bunny ripping off his shirt to the sonic unleashed music has me CRYING (>◡

I must applaud Pan’s ability to capture the mood of whatever holiday he’s talking about in these videos.

Another great video essay from RebelTaxi

0:38 that explains the Wallace & Gromit Easter egg in one of the concept art made for Chop Socky Chooks in your video on the series of the same name. Edit: man it’s great to hear the Cartoon intro again.

Adding it to my list of Christmas movies to watch this year. I only watched it once for like 30 minutes but I have been given an appreciation from you

Pan is forgetting that violent night exists

Thank you for this (and every other) video! It was very clever of those elves to wait for Castro to turn 90 before taking him down, so as not to raise suspicion.

Thank you for this wonderful Christmas gift! Another banger video my friend!

15:00 legendary transition

incredible video pan

This is probably my favorite video of yours in a long time, I absolutely loved the reference at 12:06!

Yay! You're doing Christmas videos again!😊 ❤🎄 I missed these!

This movie was one of my favorite holiday specials as a kid. Im so happy to be reminded of it by my favorite youtuber.

Cracking video, Pan

As a brit I believe the reindeer killing floor would have been a real plot point. I mean... Have you seen chicken run? British kids stuff until very recently has been brutal. I mean our game shows used to imply the kids who lost were imprisoned or murdered so.

Pan pizza making a video about a cartoon? It really is a christmas miracle!!

The transition of the S-1 into the sonic unleashed opening was so validating i had the exact same thought

Another great video essay pan You're my favorite Video Essayist by far

1:25 Thanks for clarifying, I was about to chew you out for not bringing up Klaus.

I covered my mouth in disbelief when I saw this

Your Christmas videos never get old, especially when you put the snow music of Diddy Kong Racing on them.

I literally popped this on for the first time as a random Christmas movie the same day you reviewed it. It was great.

Klaus did release in theaters. It was a limited screening and theaters few & far inbetween, but they did screen it.

STOP THE PRESSES!!! NEW REBELTAXI VID JUST DROPPED

Love this movie watch it every year, it's gotta be one of my favorite interpretations of Santa with it being more of a title passed down through generations.

Another reason why the fire might not have been why Flushed away was Cgi was that it wasn't their actual studio that burned down but a warehouse they were keeping old Props

I don't think the reason they couldn't deliver that one present was a problem with the technology, the dude was just making up excuses because he didn't want to go through the effort of delivering 1 present.

glad to see another vid (sux that we'll never know if the podcast will ever get a new episode or not)

Best monthly show of youtube

A new rebeltaxi vid. What a great birthday surprise 😊

Jesus, that poor woman really was hounded for this movie after just giving birth. Putting a bed in the studio room to keep her working feels dystopian.

I was pleasantly surprised at how good this movie was

Great video

Merry Christmas rebeltaxi ❤

Well, time for me to watch Arthur Christmas. Happy Holidays Pan and everyone.

Another banger fr

I can't wait to watch this movie on Sunday. It's been a yearly event for me for the last 9 years.

this video is like a Christmas present

💮Merry Christmas to you, Rebeltaxi!

Daddy Pan has saved Christmas once again! Thank you Nostalgia Daddy, intro makes me cry everytime smfh

Klaus is on the phone.While it was a limited release, it did show in theatres, hence why it was nominated for the oscars.

With Aardman and dreamworks I always kinda knew something was up. I bet there was alot of executive meddling like "wheres da pop culture references and the third act break up? Wheres toilet humor? Kids ain't gonna like this or understand

Hell yeaa! a new video!

I need to watch this again.

Very glad you made sure to give Klaus a mention. My favorite Christmas movie in some time

Truly the last theatrical Christmas movie they actually cared for. Will always go down as my favorite

Ironically I was watching aardmans work so good timing