Watch Elf Bowling: The Movie – The Great North Pole Elf Strike For Free

Load of rubbish!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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! Hard to believe isn't! 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!

It might not be Christmas but...wait what am I saying? All the stores have their Christmas stuff up anyway! Anyway, I feel bad for not knowing anything about the Elf Bowling flash game that this was based on. I've written over 16,000 Newgrounds reviews. You'd think they would have it! 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. That's incredibly stupid. 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. He doesn't get punished for this, so this is all completely pointless. 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? There's a later part where they say they're off by six billion toys, but then they say they're off by eight billion toys. 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. He relocates to Fiji and finds this woman who wants him for his money. She serves no purpose in this whatsoever. Santa returns and challenges Dingle again. He cheats again and gets disqualified again. What'd they even do this? They should have known the exact thing would happen before. 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. Yes, seriously. 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. I haven't even mentioned how the CGI is horrendous. Every character looks like a melting marshmallow and the CGI looks like it was made in 1994. When you see the characters close up, they come off as even scarier. Okay, I guess this isn't as bad as "Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny", but it's close. I am so glad I'm here to warn people of the films of any kind you should avoid. Dang, I wrote a lot. So many online critics have reviewed it and it's easy to see why. Half a star

*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. Or just tell the true tale or something. 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? And if so, why this one? And if this one, for some reason... How did they even get to the conclusion? I do not understand some movies.. Really I don't. This is like Kis Vuk and Food Fight at once, for Christmas. And worse, a poorly primitive game's adaptation. Two hours too long without any worth watching it. 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. Illogical Story again. And the visuals could be way better too. When this thing came out? 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. And the magic orb... don't get me starting on it...In short: No!

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.