AC15: Random Movie Review - Klaus

So around this time of the year, Netflix goes about bringing us a or a few Christmas films that are considered part of their original line of films (or not depending on where you live). This year, we got a film made by one of the legendary animators of the Disney Renaissance which as I have said many times before was a time where Disney had their biggest animated hits which were all traditionally hand drawn animation with the 3D elements (i.e. the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast) being done by Pixar's CAPS software. Going back to this film, I guess it was made in an attempt to see if traditionally hand drawn animation can still live up in a time where full CGI films are the big animation giants. Not just that, but its a film that gives us a version of Santa's possible origins. So let's see how it all goes together:

So the film focuses on this postman called Jesper (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) who has become too used to living in luxury that the head of the postal academy and his father, sends him to Smeerensburg in which he must set up a post office and get at least 6000 letters sent from there in order to get back to his luxurious life. Of course things don't go too well for him at first with the town being in the middle of a war between two families and being home to lots of uneducated children and people who want nothing to do with him. Before long, Jesper comes across a carpenter called Klaus (voiced by J.K. Simmons) who has made a lot of toys. Thinking of a way to help both of them out, Jesper and Klaus set about giving children toys while inadvertently change the town forever by introducing Christmas.

You know I have seen so many films that give out different takes on Santa and if I'm being honest, this is actually the most original Christmas film I have seen. It gives us all the stuff that make Christmas what it is and it ends on a pretty believeable note regarding how Santa gives the people of the world presents. As for the animation, its trully something as it proves once and for all that the old ways are still as good as ever and that animation companies should not rely heaviliy on CGI. You can still make great films this way. Anyway, a nice and sweet film with great animation, great characters and something for the family to enjoy all the way. 9/10