Klaus.

 

                                                        Klaus.

There is a reason this movie got nominated for an Oscar for best 

animated film it is really an Oscar worthy movie. It is a story of how 

Santa Claus came to be and it follows him threw the years and shows 

how he became the legend he is today. You can find this on Netflix a 

wonderful platform for some really awesome movies, I really hope you 

get on there and see this movie you will love it and so will the whole 

family. I hope to have a movie or T.V. show of mine on there someday.  

So, with that, lets get to the story shall we:

Jesper Johansson, the lazy, spoiled son of the Royal Postmaster General, has been trying to flunk out of the postman academy, but his father sends him to the distant town of Smeerensburg. If Jesper fails to post 6,000 letters within a year, he will be cut off from his family’s fortune. Arriving in the bleak, snowy town of Smeerensburg, Jesper meets ferryman Mogens and teacher turned fishmonger Alva, who explain that Smeerensburg is home to the perpetually warring Ellingboe and Krum families.

Desperate for letters, Jesper attempts to mail a young Krum boy’s drawing. He later visits the reclusive woodsman Klaus and discovers his house is filled with handmade toys, but flees from the imposing woodsman, leaving behind the sad drawing. Klaus forces Jesper to take him to the boy's house and secretly deliver one of his toys. Word spreads to other children, who hope to receive toys by sending Klaus letters. Jesper, eager to collect letters, convinces Klaus to let him deliver more toys. The Krum boy’s toy leads him to play with an Ellingboe girl, much to their families’ outrage.

The myth of Klaus grows among the town’s children as Jesper delivers toys through their chimneys at night, prompting more and more children to write letters to Klaus. Jesper sends those who cannot write to be taught by Alva, who reopens her school with the money she was saving to leave Smeerensburg, and Klaus and Jesper tame a team of reindeer to pull their cart of toys. After Jesper leaves coal in the stocking of a young bully, the boy confronts Jesper, who declares Klaus only gives toys to good children and tracks all of their misbehaviors with a "Naughty List". This leads the children to perform acts of kindness throughout the town, inspiring the townsfolk to end their ancient disputes.

Unwilling to end the feud, family elders Tammy Krum and Aksel Ellingboe attempt to sabotage Jesper and Klaus, resulting in the postal cart losing its wheels and sailing over the town; this leads the children to believe that Klaus has “a flying sleigh pulled by magic reindeer”. With Jesper’s deadline approaching and Klaus beginning to run out of toys, Jesper tries persuading him to make more in time for Christmas, but after Jesper uncovers an alcove with a wooden display and figurines of a man and a woman, evidently a personal secret from Klaus' past that he'd kept hidden for years, Klaus pushes him away. They reconcile while building a sled for a Sámi girl named Márgu, and Klaus tells Jesper about his late wife Lydia, explaining he made the toys for the children they never had. He agrees to help Jesper with his Christmas plan, joined by Márgu and the people from her settlement, who give Klaus a traditional red suit. Alva shows Jesper how the town has flourished, making him consider staying in Smeerensburg.

The Krum and Ellingboe elders form a temporary truce and discover Jesper’s deadline, and post 14,000 letters to rid themselves of the postman. On Christmas Eve, the Postmaster General arrives to congratulate his son, inadvertently revealing Jesper's initially selfish intentions and turning his friends against him. Before they leave town, Mogens notices Jesper's dismay, prompting Jesper's father to inquire; Jesper reveals everything, and his father declares he is finally proud of him and allows him to stay in Smeerensburg.

The elders arrive to destroy the Christmas toys, and Jesper tries to stop them. In the ensuing chase, Mr. Ellingboe's daughter and Mrs. Krum's son fall in love, while all the gifts in Klaus’ bag are sent over a cliff. Alva and Klaus reveal the town’s children informed them of the elders' plot, and they replaced the bag of toys with decoys. A redeemed Jesper delivers the presents with Klaus, and the marriage of the Krum and Ellingboe children forces the family elders to grudgingly end their feud.

Jesper marries Alva and raises two children, and for the next eleven years he and Klaus deliver presents on Christmas in Smeerensburg and beyond. On the twelfth year, Klaus follows wisps of wind – which had guided him when he first met Jesper – and disappears, implicitly joining his departed wife. Jesper explains his Christmas tradition: waiting by the fireplace to see Klaus, whose spirit delivers toys to children around the world as the legend of "Santa Claus".