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.

Eric Stevenson 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

bobbie-warren T from the US must be either employed by Rex Piano (awesome name, by the way) or on some heavy psychotics. 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. I believe that the author, Martin Olsen, was inspired by Shrek, but couldn't quite make it. The script combines fart jokes and sex jokes in a way that simultaneously makes it inappropriate for children and dull for adults. Never mind that the only two female characters are a heartless gold-digger and a schnitzel-obsessed housewife, since sexism is still alive and well. 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.

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!