Klaus

2019 Directed by Sergio Pablos

A postman is posted to a frozen town in the North - where he discovers Santa Claus is hiding out.

Rashida Jones J.K. Simmons Joan Cusack Jason Schwartzman Tucker Meek Teddy Blum Sydney Brower Alexis Sky Mila Brener Kendall Joy Hall Pierce Pope Hailey Hermida Jaeden Bettencourt Lucian Perez

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Review by Sara ★★★★½

Review coming soon 🎅🏻🎄
Review by Nmanna27 ★★★★

A sweet and funny film animated in GORGEOUS 2-D Animation. Story can be alittle generic but how it’s told with its beautiful artistic style and charming characters makes it very worthwhile. Please check this out!
Review by liam lopinto

Even Klaus couldn’t avoid a pop song montage.
But hey we saw Lorenzo’s name in the storyboard credits! That’s cool! 👏

Edit: And Robert Domingo’s!
Review by JP Dalton ★★★★½

A delightfully funny and energetic Christmas film with tons of charm, brilliantly brought to life with exquisite 2D animation. It reminded me of the old Rankin/Bass film Santa Clause is Comin' to Town but with the humor of Chuck Jones' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! and the art style of Treasure Planet (the main character's design just really reminds me of David Hyde Pierce's character Dr. Doppler). The plot at times may bit a bit too formulaic, but I think it makes up for it with being pretty spectacular with everything else. The characters were great and all the actors performed them well. I think this may become one of my yearly Christmas watches, especially since it will be easily…
Review by Maxine the Movie Gal ★★★★

Sat all by myself for this film’s first screening in Victoria. I mean, this did mean nobody else could take me out of the magic and it gave me the freedom to sit literally anywhere but Netflix why don’t you promote movies like this more heavily you FOOLS
Anyway, I’m so glad this exists and was released in UK cinemas across the country, its script’s not a masterpiece and nor is its soundtrack but I don’t care, it’s a brave and warm-hearted reminder that we should be kind to one another and cherish the festive spirit whether or not we believe in Santa or generally share the same beliefs, make plans to see it in a cinema right now wherever possible and give hand-drawn animation the support it so desperately needs in 2019 gosh darn it.
Review by matiassaxbjoern ★★★★

You heard about The Acclaimed origin Story of “Joker”
Now get ready for “Klaus”

Recent reviews

Review by chelseamw13 ★★★★

3.75 a little cheesy but cute!
Review by Isaac Feldberg ★★★½

it looks so pretty 😭😭
Review by Jithin K Mohan ★★★★

A beautiful Christmas film that will make you smile throughout the film. Even though the story is nothing new, the updated 2d animation and the heart behind it makes you love the film.
Review by Zachary Marsh ★★★★★

Behold, my choice for the biggest surprise of 2019. Klaus had me laughing so hard throughout from its barrage of incredibly well-written and well-animated jokes, staring in awe at the gorgeous animation, and fighting back tears at the end of it. This is legitimately one of the best Christmas movies I've ever seen, and it actually gave me a reason to believe in Christmas magic, which is something I don't think any film has ever been able to do for me until now. Whether you can see this in a theater (like I was lucky enough to do) or you watch it on Netflix, please just give this movie a watch. It deserves your attention, and it's the best Christmas present this Jewish bloke has ever gotten. Yes, the story gets cliched and generic, but the movie manages to make up for that by doubling down on everything that had you falling in love with it in the first place.
Review by garynaylor999 ★★★★

If you cut the movie some slack on the sentimentality (it is Christmas after all), you're left with a beautiful origin myth (a kind of anti-Joker) that succeeds in conception and execution. Given its target family audience, employing a 2-D colour palette of washed out greys is a bold move, but works well, giving a European feel to the film light years from Disney's hyper-colourful worlds.
If it lacks a little of Studio Ghibli's ambiguous edge, its central theme is important and not overly sugar-coated. We should indeed be more kind.
Review by Sara ★★★★½

Review coming soon 🎅🏻🎄
Review by Darren ★★

“I don’t make toys,” remarks the grizzled craftsman played by J.K. Simmons around the midpoint it Klaus. He pauses, unable or unwilling to share more of his gritty back story. “Not anymore.”
Klaus looks gorgeous, a triumphant celebration of two-dimensional animation. There’s some nice computer-generated lighting and shading, and the backgrounds evoke the work of Eyvind Earle on Sleeping Beauty. It is legitimately great to see this sort of animation again.
However, the story is terrible. It arguably resembles the sort of Disney-tinged knock-offs that flooded the animation market in response to the Disney renaissance, right down to the corny sense of humour and cringe-worthy attempts at attitude. Klaus is a reminder that what elevated the best animated films was…
Review by liam lopinto

Even Klaus couldn’t avoid a pop song montage.
But hey we saw Lorenzo’s name in the storyboard credits! That’s cool! 👏

Edit: And Robert Domingo’s!
Review by matiassaxbjoern ★★★★

You heard about The Acclaimed origin Story of “Joker”
Now get ready for “Klaus”