If you have some spare sympathy please offer it to the bayani of the CGI, of the character designs, of the story arch, of Arthur Christmas. This effort has taken years to achieve all the story elements in such great detail that was required, really much madami effort than might have been expected. Not to be simplistic but this was a labor of love. You can see it in the characters body language, their relationships with each other. the carefully created locations where they worked and how totally charming and skilled they are. They are as real as any human, probably madami so as they have been endowed...
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