Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike

Plot synopsis:
Santa Claus and his brother, Dingle, are pirates roaming the open sea. After getting kicked off their ship by their own crew, they become trapped in ice and float until they wash ashore at the North Pole. There, they meet elves who recognize Santa as the prophesied "white beard" and they thaw him and Dingle out. Shortly afterwards, they ask Santa to lead their factory. The elves already had been making toys, but they didn't have anything to do with them, so they kept them in storage. Santa had the idea of giving the toys to the world's children, and thus, Christmas is born. After 1400 years, Santa becomes sick of his brother Dingle loafing around in his apartment and insists that he leave. This upsets Dingle, so he plots against Santa in order to take over Christmas from him. He challenges Santa to a game of Elf Bowling, but after the elves discover he cheated, his plan is foiled. He then tricks Santa into getting frozen, and writes a fake note about how Santa hates the elves and is leaving. This upsets the elves, and Dingle uses the opportunity to make them follow him on a trip to Fiji. After Santa's wife finds him, Santa must get back to the elves in order to save Christmas. While Dingle hypnotizes the elves, Santa figures out a way to reverse the process, thwarting Dingle's plan and saving Christmas.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Completely pointless, mindless, and boring.
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!.
"Elf Bowling" is probably one of the worst Christmas specials ever made.
It lacks the charm it is supposed to have, the animation is terrible, and it is not funny at all.
All this added to the fact that it was post-produced to tie in to a popular downloadable video game.In fact, all bowling elements of the film made no sense to me.
Sure, the video game is fun.
However, how can you have Santa use elves as bowling pins and make both the Christmas special endearing and Santa not look like a masochist?
This movie's answer to that question is apparently by making the elves actually LIKE being knocked down by a heavy bowling ball.
As long as Santa is rolling that ball, it's a compliment, I guess.The way you can tell that "Elf Bowling" and all bowling elements were added to the film at the last minute is just by looking at the title: "Elf Bowling: The Movie- The Great North Pole Elf Strike".
If you take anything related to bowling out of this movie, you still get a story that's predictable, and characters whose actions fly in the face of logic.
Adding bowling to the plot is just clearly contrived.Apparently, in one of the stupidest Santa origin stories ever, Santa Claus (voiced by Joe Alaskey, who also does the voice for Grandpa Lou in TV's "Rugrats") starts out as a pirate (yes, a pirate!) whose fellow shipmates make it their duty to steal toys from orphans.
When Santa has a falling out with his brother, Dingle Kringle (voiced by Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants), they end up both accidentally walking off the plank.
Because they happen to fall off the ship in the North Pole, they end up frozen and floating off to a land inhabited by toy-making elves.While the brothers initially plan to steal the toys the elves made, Santa warms up to the elves.
Santa goes on to take over the workshop, while Dingle, in plain sight of Santa, wants to take over the toy making operation.
First he wants to keep the toys for himself.
Later, he wants to deliver the toys to all the children in the world with invoices attached so he can profit.
As if kids would actually pay them.Do you see any room for bowling in this story?
Also, Dingle, being the bad guy, cheats in the first game, then is caught by the elves.
They have a rematch, and Dingle cheats again, unbeknownst to those same elves.
For plot convenience's sake, the elves never seem to comprehend Dingle's evil schemes, even when he flies them to Fiji.
The elves are not supposed to be stupid, but their lines like "What the cranberry sauce are you doing?" make you wonder.Despite the veteran, talented voice actors they recruited for this special, this is just a very cheap way to promote a video game that did not need this movie to promote it.
It had already been downloaded 100 million times (literally) before this movie came out.Everything about this movie felt cheap: the writing, the animation, and even the sole black elf who spoke intelligence-insulting jive talk.
However, it may be best used as an actual bowling pin so you can through a bowling ball at it..
If you want to get a little "wacky" this Christmas this film is over the limit of the daily required intake of wackiness .
The movie stars with Santa Claus in a commune in the late 60's .
Since Santa meets the physical requirements he is drafted in the Vietnam war.
Santa goes to war (Unlike a certain Gop candidate we know) and he records the horrifying atrocities of war in his journal.
He gets lost during a mission and goes insane in the jungles relying on rats for food, he starts to talk in a high pitched voice,develops a childlike personality, and forms his own way of pronunciation .
Greatest movie I've ever watched!.
Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike (2007) was a heartwarming and excellent adventure for the entire family!
We all enjoyed it very much and the kids were happy to see their favorite characters do the Elf Bowling!
I liked this movie very much.
I liked it because seeing all the elves and the Santa Claus made me very happy.
This was a very unique movie, it was not similar to other titles; I promise.
Santa's brother might be the greatest performance in the history of animated film.
Just another mindless cash grab meant to cash in on a game from 1998 with a dead fanbase.
The movie is not very good the character look-like their made of Playdough and the "jokes" in this movie range anywhere from cringeworthy (at worst) to might get a smerk out of you (at best).
The worst part this movie is just when you think they're about to wrap up they introduce an entire new part of the plot takes up the other 40 minutes..
Seriously how did this film get greenlit?
I can fathom films made based on Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong, or Star Fox but why this?
Seriously it was based off of Elf Bowling an online game in 1998 that was renowned for being among the worst.
Yet it worse because the story is barely based on what flimsy material it is and there's so many lame scenes and bland song and dance numbers that stretches the time making it not only longer but seem longer than it really is.
It all starts off with Santa as a pirate and his brother Dingle getting kicked off their ship, freezing, and thawed by elves.
Dingle wants to be in charge and challenges Santa to a game of bowling and Dingle wins by cheating (using penguins in place of elves).
Then the plot turns south with the elves being moved to Fiji and involving talking statues.
The characters are ugly and one dimensional, the animation lacking, the story is abysmal beyond comprehension, nor is the dialogue or voice acting worthwhile.
If any good came out of it, it's that a Halloween sequel was cancelled due to this lame excuse of this movie's even lamer performance.
If anyone is going to make a movie based on any videogame, base it on something well known and good.
This should be a chapter in how to not make a movie..
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..
Great family time!.
This was the best Christmas movie I have ever seen!
Needless to say, they LOVED it, especially my 5 year old nephew (he loves pirates, so he really enjoyed this one).
The end is very heartwarming yet the entire movie as a whole is a very adventurous swashbuckling tale.
Why have the conventional boy meets girl Christmas movie when you can have one of brotherly love?
I also enjoyed hearing the voices of some of my favorite characters like Tom Kenny and the grandpa from Rugrats (which I just realized from this website, beforehand I had recognized the voice but couldn't put my tongue on it).
I recommend this movie, the only regret you will have is not watching it enough!.
pretty good movie.
This will be short to review this movie.
*spoiler alert* Because this whole movie simply fails at being a movie, a Christmas special, and has terrible ideas.
They could have made a bible based movie about how Jesus became Santa Claus in secret.
Also, it's elf bowling we are talking about...
Did a flash game from the mid-to-late nineties call for a movie?
How many flash games deserve a movie adaptation?
I do not understand some movies..
This is like Kis Vuk and Food Fight at once, for Christmas.
And worse, a poorly primitive game's adaptation.
And I just don't know how to say how bad this thing is.
Yes, Christmas is a celebration hard to make good movies for, and I swear I rarely see a Christmas special that does.
Making Santa Claus a pirate, giving him a brother who cheats and commits crimes for 400 year straight, and still nobody even considers it when letting him challenge S.C. twice.
2007 was the year when Ratatouille came out, and that was visually appealing, with a story that was actually made for human consumption.
I don't think the Easter Island idea was serious too.
This movie was terrible.
The first comment I have was that the plot was lagging, redundant, and portrayed every single character as severely delayed.
I respect that the game itself didn't give much to work from.
You hit elves with balls, big deal.
However, the fact is, bowling is a boring game.
And the fact that the elves were incapable of figuring out that Dingle was cheating raised red flags for me, since that was sort of his shtick.
It took far too many unnecessary divergences from the actual plot.
The script combines fart jokes and sex jokes in a way that simultaneously makes it inappropriate for children and dull for adults.
Then again, I should have known better, since the advertising on the back of the box hinges around "We have guys from Rugrats and Aladdin!"That movie sucked..
Have I already seen all the good animated movies?.
It might not be Christmas but...wait what am I saying?
Anyway, I feel bad for not knowing anything about the Elf Bowling flash game that this was based on.
Anyway again, this was based on a flash game which from what I heard was nothing about bowling with elves as the pins.
They decide to change this to make Santa a pirate for no reason.
What do pirates have anything to do with Santa Claus?
And what they do have anything to do with bowling?
They took an idea that was already a weird version of Santa and made it even weirder.
Oh, and the pirates only appear for the first four minutes in the entire film.Yes, there is absolutely no reason at all to make Santa a pirate.
It's even more pointless than you think.
Anyway, Santa has an evil brother named Dingle in this movie.
Somewhere around 600 AD, he started delivering toys to all the people in the world.
Well originally it was going to be he'd deliver them every day, according to this movie.
He convinces the elves to narrow it down to just one day a year.
Nothing important happens to Santa Claus for literally 1400 years.
It's only at this point that Santa decides to kick Dingle out because he's still been committing crimes for over a thousand years.
Took him long enough, I guess.Dingle tries to take over Christmas by challenging Santa to a bowling game where he cheats and gets disqualified.
In fact, you could have literally ended the movie right there are that point and nothing would have changed at that point.
This movie is so bad it even gets the dates wrong.
It keeps saying that Dingle has been around for 600 years even though he's been there for 1400 years.
Can the writers of this movie not even count?
Was no one paying attention to this movie in the slightest?
Dingle causes the toy factory to blow up which creates a wave freezing Santa who for some reason is making a "Home Alone" face.
Santa returns and challenges Dingle again.
He cheats again and gets disqualified again.
Oh, and there's this magic orb that this one elf named Lex uses.
It turns out he actually had the magic in him the whole time and didn't need the orb!
Then how is Dingle able to use the orb?
It was proved the magic came from Lex, not the orb.
Oh, and Dingle's girlfriend is defeated by feeding her strudel.
They were somehow able to make billions of toys in only a few minutes at the end.
Either that, or they did it with Dingle's help which is also dumb considering he's supposed to be the villain.This is one of the worst Christmas movies, worst animated movies, and worst video game movies of all time.
Every character looks like a melting marshmallow and the CGI looks like it was made in 1994.
Okay, I guess this isn't as bad as "Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny", but it's close.
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..
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..
Fourth greatest movie of all time!.
Elf bowling:the movie is so nostalgic for me it surpasses even the polar express!
But nostalgia is not the only reason I love this movie,It's because of a sudden twist that Santa clause,one of my idols,was a pirate!
Anyway,I'm sure your kids will love watching this on Christmas Eve!
The elf's were adorable,best version of them,and Sean hart did an underrated great job as lex,Santa's head elf!
Tom Kenny(spongebob)did a good voice for Santa's evil brother dingle!
I never played the games but this made me love the elf bowling franchise!
Great movie and my fourth favorite!