BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Michael Ledo Santa and his brother Dingle are Irish pirates who steal toys. Through a series of events they get rescued by elves who also have penguins. (Penguins at the North Pole!) Santa gives up his evil ways while Dingle tries to hijack Christmas. The film is off beat. There are some themes for adults that kids might not understand such as "tequila body shots." There is also a scene where Dingle is playing cards with the penguins and he is in his undershirt (strip poker?).Elf Bowling is not as exciting as dwarf tossing. Never bet of elf bowling as it is a sport that can be easily rigged.

David Brailsford I remember being a teen and someone emailing my dad this game around the end of the 90's, it wasn't terrible, it was a tad addictive back when better games still required fairly good video cards... that said jump ahead 10 years almost, yeah there's a gba version I'm ashamed to admit occasionally I'll play but for the most part like the rest of the world I'd forgotten the game. Jump ahead about 7 years now I discover someone made it into a movie around the gba games time frame... I'm left wondering "Why?"uTo put whats wrong with this movie I ask you, Do you remember telephone? The game that was often played in kindergarten where a teacher whispers something in one ear for the message to be in turn whispered into another kids ear to the last kid finally reads out the message. This in turn almost always leads to something major lost in the transmission of the message.This seems to be the case of the Santa Clause Mythos in this movie. Santa Clause is inexplicably a pirate who steals toys, so that he can secretly throw them overboard hoping they will somehow end up in the hands of orphans. He has a brother who is also a pirate who seems to have an addiction to cheating worse then Dick Dastardly back in the wacky races.Santa bowls his crew over gold coins for some reason and wins but the parrot reveals that there's been cheating been going on so him and his brother get tossed into the water where they freeze, somehow the end up at the north pole where an elf uses his magic ball to revive them. They then reveal Santa is the chosen one, white beard. Eva then falls in love with an eva gabor look alike when she makes him strudel which he apparently really likes. Then him and his brother get in some real stupid argument drop the magic ball knocking over 12 elves revealing they enjoy being knocked over like pins. Santa starts delivering toys since they enjoy making toys and for 14 hundred years this goes on, finally santa marries ms. clause and asks his brother to move out who in turn goes to rule over the penguins and plot against his brother... I could go on but i think I made my point at how ridiculous this adaption is.My biggest gripe with this movie is at about 80 minutes, bowling only makes up possibly an 8th of the film if that much and the bowling scenes are all pretty much the same, Santa bowls, Dingle Bowls, Dingle is revealed to have cheated after he wins. The victory is awarded to santa. Thinking about the plot actually can hurt your head so I wouldn't recommend it.

T So you think you know the real story behind Santa Claus? So starts "Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike" and it takes you on a laugh filled journey from pirate filled oceans to the North Pole to Fiji. There are several toe tapping musical numbers along the way including Wrapplestiltskin rapping and Dingle, the evil brother, crooning. Oh and let's not forget the "Elf Bowling". I'm not familiar with the video game but it sure is funny seeing how the game is fit into the film. The elves signature reaction of joy cracked me up. First rate writing, brilliant voice work by Joe Alaskey and Tom Kenney (of Spongebob fame), and superb animation will make this a holiday treat that everyone will enjoy.

gschrive87 We rented this movie cheaply through Redbox and I'm glad it's only a dollar a day so I didn't waste my money. What more can I say except that I almost fell asleep several times while watching this movie? It had no plot and the musical numbers were terrible. It even stunk as a family movie with sexual innuendo and just overall crudeness. I didn't laugh even once throughout the whole movie. It wasn't very original and the same plot devices were used over and over ad nauseum.When we watch a movie as a family, we try to decide whether the rental would be a future "buyer" or not. This was voted hands down as NOT a "buyer".Maybe the video game this movie is based on is good -- I've never played it -- but this movie goes down as one of the top 10 worst family movies ever and definitely the worst Christmas movie I've ever seen!