Santa gets an origin story in 'Klaus,' an animated tale about an everyman postal worker assigned to bring mail service to a remote northern village.
He’s costumed, he soars, he rescues kids from joylessness, and now like any other superhero he’s got an origin story, thanks to the animated film “Klaus,” a serviceably sprightly mix of attitude and altruism that purports to explain how children every Christmas came to eagerly await the wrapped bounty from a kind, portly figure in a red suit.
Our first stop in this centuries-ago tale is a mountainously picturesque postal academy where pampered cadet and indifferent scion Jesper purposefully underperforms until he’s punished by his Postmaster General dad by getting sent to the bleak Arctic island of Smeerensburg to ensure 6,000 letters are processed within the year or he’ll be cut off as an heir.
And with that, Pablos and screenwriters Jim Mahoney and Zach Lewis take delight in revealing the sometimes amusing back story to all the elements of the Santa myth, from the flying sled to his eventual helpers, while Pablos’ animators deploy plenty of stylish visuals — augmented here and there by 3-D CGI touches — to transform a gray village frozen by resentment into an old-world storybook wonderland awakened by goodness.
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