What the HELL is Elf Bowling the Movie? - Christmas Crap
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2018
- This might be one of the most pointless Christmas movies ever made. How can you get a full-length film from a bowling video game from 1998?
Well...let's find out!
Christmas Crap is a new series that highlights the worst holiday films in the world of animation
Watch more of my reviews here:
• What the HELL is...
"What the HELL..." is a series where Saber talks about a cartoon or movie and what the HELL it's about
Saberspark is a TH-cam channel who researches, reviews, and analyzes various movies and cartoon shows from the world of animation
**Social Media Stuff**
Support the show on Patreon
/ saberspark
Follow me on Twitter
/ saberspark
**Video Credits**
Video Thumbnail by Flutter Spartan
/ flutterspartan
Thumbnail Edits by Salty
/ saltydkdan
Audio Edits by CookieSoup
/ dbponymusic
Avatar pics by Nathan Butler
/ nathanbutlerart
Intro and Outro Music by Hirosashii
/ hirosashii
Intro Visual by Acleps
/ theacleps
Outro Visual by Viktor Newman
viktornewman.deviantart.com/
Music by Home
/ home-2001
**Art of the Week**
Fan Art by Scolionophobic
/ talmuck - บันเทิง
This is possibly one of the most pointless Christmas movies ever made...
Support me on Patreon : www.patreon.com/saberspark
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/Saberspark
Saberspark I love Christmas but why is a lot of CRAP come from it?!
Saberspark yeah DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING THIS SHITTY MOVIE KIDS!
I meet Tom Kenny
Can you review Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas? It is so cringy that while we were watching this in class, I almost walked out of the room. It is based on Elf, but it has none of the magic from that movie.
We need a new Bubsy game with the same color style as the first games, more stages and of course, some more purrsonality.
Wait, this is a Saberspark video?
This movie looks like trash. I hope you didn't turn insane from this pile of outdated CGI garbage.
This movie suffers from what I like to call Shrek Syndrome. People think Shrek was solely popular because of adult humor and fail to realize that Shrek was a good movie due to the satire, good characters, a planned out plot and actual humor.
Arreee you being sarcastic or not
Don't want to end up on r/wooosh
Yeah, but the Lord Farquaad bone scene is pure GOLD
@@jacksonturner3623
No it's actually a good point.
Shrek is good satire.
Rootbeerfloat Productions
Chicken Little is a prime example of that!
Wow, didn't think other people thought that. I mean, I think Shrek used up it's potential come the third movie (by which I mean the first two where good. 3 and 4 are bad). But again, Shrek knew what it was doing when it started. Wish people could see that.
The main villain has manic depression, owns a sweatshop, and sings about how great slavery is.
_Is this the right movie?_
🙈
Really getting the Christmas spirit feel, ain't you?
Lmao
And he also is 1400 years old
Yep, pretty sure it is.
The elves count each individual Lego as a toy. Hence the 10 trillion.
A bit tedious I may say
German military levels of inventory tracking
Oh that makes sense
I mean I think each lego part has like, special serial numbers anyway.
If so that's awful
hol up.
If Santa's real name is Chris Kringle, then his brother is literally
*D I N G L E K R I N G L E*
*D I N G L E K R I N G L E*
D I N G L E K R I N G L E
*D I N G L E K R I N G L E*
D I N G L E K R I N G L E
D I N G L E K R I N G L E
"This is like a chick flick dude, except instead of a bunch of smoking babes it's a munchkin and a fat guy" *cries*
*I have crippling depression*
Honestly out of the whole movie that is the closet thing to a joke and I have to admit do to the rest of the movie I actually found it funny.
W H E E Z E
"I'm gonna take what he just said, and post it as a review on Amazon."
*Saberspark posts that as a review on Amazon*
Even in a movie this bad, Tom Kenny is *always* a welcome prescence.
He's also in one scene in Re-Animated: that shitty live action/animation hybrid movie from cartoon network and he's the only person who's still even giving half a damn for a single scene. (Where he was actually there and not just doing a character voice)
Tom Kenny is KING
Nicholas Salmons You want to hear him sing about exposed breasts? No? Well, here you go...
His voice is the one thing that sustains your sanity in this
But the stuff the script has him do is just... uncomfortable. The way he said "Detroit" was particularly weird.
This is ironic because Tom Kenny got he idea for the Spongebob voice from a disgruntled mall elf
yeah
I thought he based it off of Elroy.
No wonder SpongeBob is so obnoxious
That's not irony that's coincidence
@@brodiero-solar302 if it wasn't for the Christmas shit I wouldn't fucking work!
Eh, that rapping elf might not be racist.
*"DEE-TROIT"*
Never mind.
You also got Tom Kenny singing about... slavery... please tell me you felt uncomfortable with this, Tommy.
@@WillieManga I don't think the slavery song was racist though, since it was clearly depicted as still being a bad thing. It was just weirdly dark humor for a kids' movie.
I will DEE-TROIT smash the person who wrote that script
Tseye247, they truly will be DESTROID!!!
T Lebron
Destroid
_aw yeah, this is big brain time_
**gets hit by a bowling ball**
Me: _F I N L A N D ! ! !_
Oh hey its you again
Excellent reference!
Reference for what?
No, I said _ENGLAND_
Where's the leak ma'am?
14 hundred years? Not only is the inventory is unrealistic, but Santa's origins are unrealistic since the type of pirate he represents didn't exist until 1400-1500 A.D. He should of been a Viking.
Considering the fact that parts of Santa originated from Odin, that seems highly appropriate.
@@MrSpeedysam60 Okay then
@@MrSpeedysam60 Is that also where the elves came from?
@@MrSpeedysam60 So Santa Claus is Odin?
Odin was Santa the whole time, he didn't die in Ragnarok, instead he abandoned his freaking kingdom to become Santa Claus, who can be easily killed by falling off a roof
4:30 *"DoNt fOrGEt tO gRAb yOuR bAlLS"*
*MOAN*
Tom Lake Charles
Uhh............
“Anything you say! My sweet dear brother!”
Sir yes sir
I already did
Honestly, I just appreciate the originality for the ol' Saint Nick's origin story. It's not everyday you see Christmas started by an inappropriately-era'd pirate and his obviously Waluig- I mean treacherous brother.
On another personal level, about the only vague, vague memories I have of this game are of the elves belittling the player via poop jokes and mooning. So the movie actually seems to have been pretty faithful to the source material.
Yeah, but they got the origin of the Elf Bowling game wrong. In the game, Santa's getting revenge against striking elves. Here, Santa accidentally threw a ball at them, and they loved it for some weird reason.
The sequel had jokes about "I got lei'd!" and "Hey, I've got crabs-" if I remember right.
The idea for Santa the pirate is nonsensical
I also seem to recall that on rare occasions, one of the elves' heads gets torn off and sparks shoot out. Also, you can kill a reindeer
To be honest, the idea of Santa being a pirate or other bad person, but feeling guilty about it, thus leading to him trying to make up for it via Christmas, is actually an interesting idea. It's just mangled like the rest of this movie.
A similar idea is explored in William Joyce's Guardians of Childhood book series, which was adapted into the Rise of the Guardians movie from Dreamworks. They don't go into Santa's origins in the movie, but in the books he was originally a bandit.
@@AJPlayinGames Oh yeah? I only saw the movie but I suspected he had been something unsavoury.
@@AJPlayinGames I was about to bring that up! Russian sword fighter Santa is the best Santa.
Yeah the movie was a sequel to the books which I thought was pretty cool 😊
Violent night did this concept pretty well.
"Stonehenge guys"
Apparently Saberspark has never heard of Easter Island
🗿
XD
🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
Moai
The movie clearly doesn't give a shit. Why should he?
*_elves must be happy_*
Elf: _has clinical depression_
Santa: *gotta break your ankles now*
R/cursedcomments
17:21 WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE PETRIFIES MY PEG LEG JOKE. That one also seems incredibly innuendo.
The Ice King singing about Slavery
Never thought I’d hear it
B O I.
I wonder what Tom Kenny's face looked like when he read those lines
Spongebob singing about slavery
dear god
Oddly fitting
"Santa's immortal and the humanity just has to deal with him throughout the centuries".........................until Tim Allen makes him fall off a roof.
But you can't destroy Santa, if you kill him you become him
Bold of you to assume this isn't Tim Allen's Santa Claus
HEY, YOU!
Bold of you to assume all Santas are the same
falling off of roofs. Santa's one weakness. It makes me wonder why he spends so much time on them.
"It petrifies me peg leg"
You really let that one slip and we all suffered
19:44: “This movie has officially jumped the shark.”
No, Saber, this movie got eaten by the shark before it could even jump.
The similarities between the villain and Tom Kenny's other voice acting roles is kinda creepy.
•Tom played the ice king who had penguin slaves
•The villain Tom played had penguins to help him cheat
•Tom played patchy the pirate
•The villain Tom played was a pirate
That's wack
Psante
If we ever get a movie with Waluigi Tom had better voice him
@@emblemblade9245 indeed
I’d rather bowl with gnomes, because they’re not elves.
That's elfist.
Ha
You have mere seconds to live
Myes myes
I'm not a gnoblin. I'm not a gnelf!
*_Im a GnOMe, and you've been GNOOOMed!!_*
Legend says they forced Tom Kenny to voice record while being tied up in a basement
I err, uh, have to agree with you!
"We love having our ankles broken"
Hey some people are S's and some people are M's, who am I to judge being neither.
This movie is full to the brim of fart and poop and butt jokes ... very classy
o h -
Those penguins are furry bait
The girl penguin on the picture is one for sure.
THIS channel is Furry Bait…
Kermit the frog once again!
WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE XD?
fucking atrocious bait tou
So this what the pirate from spongebob does in his off time
Jack Sullivan The Secret Origin of Patchy the Pirate
His name is Patchy the pirate
I thought you were talking about The Flying Dutchman, I forgot about Patchy. :p
@@indigowendigo8165 Tom is patchy..... The ghost of the flying Dutchman is actually ...... Captain Knuckles....
I meant that painting pirate from the intro
0:16
Saber: Who thought this needed a movie?
Emoji Movie: Hello there
General Kamoji!
i thought the emoji movie was ok
Umm, what does The Emoji Movie had to do with this video?
@@mariajimenafigueroa8311 that it is P O I N T L E S S.
Angry Birds movie as well
The saddest part is that I can actually see potential for an Elf Bowling Movie. The general idea behind the series is that the elves have gone on strike, and so to dissuade them from doing so, Santa bowls them over with bowling balls.
So if they did a regular take on the Santa mythos, but had Dingle be some resentful elf trying to take over Christmas by hypnotizing elves, and the only way to save the day is by bowling them over, then I think they would've had a much better movie.
Bowling- Broke
Elf Bowling- *W O K E*
considering some of the stereotypes in this film.....
"Who Pooped in the peaNUT Barrel"
Nutboy did it
Aren't you all forgetting something!?
"Don't forget to grab your balls!"
pea into her NUT...
Wait
Nutboy busted the nut!
Wait a second
Hahahaha I'm laughing because I think it's ridiculous that they would say this not because I think it's funny
"We could really use that in De-Troit." What? Detroit didn't even exist a thousand years ago. How could you have come from Detroit??
"we could use some of that in Detroit." That ended me
Can’t have S H I T-
This has to be the most epic anime crossover of all time
•Spongebob
•Ice King
•Elves
•Santa
•Waluigi
•Jeopardy
•Kids Next Door
Remind me again why this is bad?
Because they aren't gnomes.
0:04 here's plenty of proof
What about the penguins of Madagascar?
I admit,I like this movie. It's funny and hilarious
I hear captain knuckles from flapjack as well
*WHY WERENT YOU AT ELF PRACTICE*
*I WAS PLAYING E L F B O W L I N G*
This movie feels like I'm watching a PS2 cutscene.
I noticed your Wheatley profile picture
@@-budgie-4923 Yeah, I really love Portal. And Wheatley was my first crush.
Yeah... a really really really BAD PS2 cutscene
Hello fellow Wheatley!
ANOTHER Wheatley fan?! YES! I LOVE HE!
In my humble opinion this movie represents the old game perfectly...
I've never actually played the game though but that's beside the point
"BrOtHeR yOu KeEp yOuR HoT sTrOoDlE iN yOuR pAnTs"
Me:excuse me? There's children watching
( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ)
Yes
Dad where my stroodie
8:36
*strudel
“Oh white beard, you’re such a big one”
* chemistry-esque staring *
*”Brother, keep your hot strudel in your pants”*
Says the one who let’s their strudel hop to Fiji without him
*That's not very PG Family Friendly Clean*
I lost it. XD
O_O
I love the fact that you added "chemistry-esque"
I can never unhear Dingle as Waluigi.
Especially with what he says at 8:36
12:14 that looks like something you see in a sfm animation
Nitpick, but it isn't a "Stonehenge head". It was a Moai statue from Easter Island. Very different things.
Every time he calls them Stonehenge heads makes me want to scream.
"But Stonehenge is the only large stone formation I know"
🗿
Stonehenge is in the U.K. and Easter island is off the coast of Chile. They are thousands of miles apart!
Lol I just chuckled at that line. XD
I can already see this movie being a timeless Christmas classic, right next to Eight Crazy Nights starring Adam Sandler and that's a Hanukkah movie!
Eight Crazy Nights wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either. Still like the only Chanukah movie I'm aware of
Honestly i'm the few people who actually likes [8 Crazy Nights.]
Wait
Stick master not on a TF2 video????
@@voughklry8362 you're new to this...
Stick ok dude I see you in the comments of like every vid I watch
“Ten trillion in counting.”
*”LIAR!”*
*sees footage of Elf Bowling the game*
*flashbacks to age 4*
.....................I think I suppressed all memory of that game.
0:32
Waluigi continuing his vacation from working in video games
He’s not even at Smash
@@stasing_0718 *cough* assist trophy *cough*
He thought he needed a vacation after falling into a depression from getting snubbed for Smash
This explains why he isn't in smash
He's still an assist trophy.
Waluigi made it into Elf Bowling instead of Smash.
wah.
wah
wah
Wah
W A H
2:54 *THIS* IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T PUT HIM IN SMASH! he needs to make money SOMEHOW
I would have just taken some porn if I was him.
4:30 'dOnT fOrGeT tO gRaB yOuR bAlLs!'
💀
You missed quite possibly one of the most blatant innuendos in there at 17:21 : "Oh lassie, ya petrifies me peg leg and makes me heart pound!"
What's that adult joke for?
@@doubleaura9387 petrify my peg leg = erection
What the FUCK?!
*_h-he doesn't have a peg leg...._*
Sexual Scootman
Am I the only one who read it as elf blowing?
Lenny face
Well, we know where your mind is. 😂😂😂
*THAT'S WHAT I SAID*
What?
Kypros Christofi
"Do you remember pirates in it, and stonehenge heads, and magic?"
YeP tOtTaLy
Another lesson learned in "Always review the video before showing it to your kids."
Can't forget the guy who voiced Santa, who's no longer with us.
R.I.P. Joe Alaskey
He was one of the best versions of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
Cheer up, you got 69 likes now, but still, rip 😔
@@Craze_1209 WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT PROFILE PICTURE MY MAN?
@@youtubeuserdan4017 that's Spinel from Steven Universe.
@@agvulpine don't worry she just tried a chilly pepper
Waluigi is in this, but not Smash
He's technically in smash cuz he's an assist trophy and a spirit.
To be fair, he dodged a bullet since everyone but Kirby gets massacred by the big bad in 3 minutes.
He’s also been a virgin for 1400 years apparently....
@@Fred_Derp That doesn't fucking count
Waluigi knew he'd never be in smash so he turned to being an actor.
Not working so well...
Santa in this movie looks like the Ice Age baby all grown up
*I love how they made fun of our flagship city here in Michigan*
Me too. Especially since I live in Ann Arbor
I'm from Coldwater.
I don’t know why, but the slow motion “poop” from Santa kills me every time I hear it.
4:01
P O O P
The enunciation, maybe. You can practically hear him spitting as he says it.
Who would win?
Entire elf army
vs
*some bowling ball boii*
Thank God for Klause. Now my favorite Christmas movie. Gremlins, Scrooge McDuck a Christmas Carol, grandma got ran over by a reindeer, Home alone Idk what else I'm just too stoned to remember all of them.
14:26
The voice acting is so hideous that you have to laugh. The intentional jokes aren't funny; it's the unintentional humor that makes this movie a laugh a minute sometimes
NooooooooooOOOOOOOO… *OOOOOOOOOO-*
@@MONSTAboyGaming For real, I love that it went from a lifeless "no" to a big dramatic "NOOOOO"
*KEEP YA HOT STRUDEL IN YA PANTS*
That dirty joke was so on the nose, and anyone who has any access to the internet could get it.
Oh
Who *pooped* in the *PEANUT BARRELL*
Blueboy The Stupid Inkling *ohhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHJ*
Excuse me?!
Cause when I think Santa I think of him bowling with elves for pins
Also a former pirate
Yeah, and I also think of great movie material when I see a terrible flash game with no substance.
6:25 We’re just Packers fans
- Nostalgia Critic
*gets shot after*
*Even worse than pirates.*
"Rex Piano"...
*5 seconds later*
"....which is clearly his forte"
I see what you did there.
“Why does this movie exist?” Good question
Legend says that no one could figure it out
I think it only exists to make us suffer.
God made those humans greedy bastards who want to make money out of everything irrelevant
"WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL?!?!" needs to be a new channel meme.
*What a hangover!*
Ok, it just me or did santa cry "Vietnam" when he got pushed off at 4:49...
"He can' howd awn....He too fat!" I actually laughed out loud. This was INCREDIBLY entertaining to watch. I feel like this counts as a good bad movie. The kind you would show someone just to have fun seeing their reactions.
So apparently there was a planned sequel to be released fall of 2008, 'Elf Bowling 2 The Great Halloween Pumpkin Heist'. You can guess why it was cancelled.
RolyaRain and he mentions it at the end of the video. Guess you should have finished before commenting
@@PrincessAshley972 Guess you should have woken up with a better attitude.
The worst thing Tom Kenny was ever in. i think One Course Meal was a better role than this.
Positive?
Worse than Transformers 2?
@@kimifw58 way worse!
That’s gone with the wind compared with this
Wasn't he in Rapsittie Street Kids?
“Call my lawyers”, Oml thank god Walugi is the best person here 😂
8:26 Did she just say "You shat a big one"?!🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's probably a lot harder for voice actors, even hugely successful ones, to judge the quality of an animation project before it's released since it's just them in a sound booth... provided the studio ca actually afford to rent out a recording studio.
Child: Where did Santa come from?
Dad: uh...he was a pirate on a ship called the Filthy......toe?
Child: A pirate???
Dad: YES, and he loved....bowling.
Child: Santa sounds amazing, and daddy?
Dad: yes?
Child: When will you stop drinking?
Tom Kenny is not only in this movie, his wife, Jill Talley as well as Joe Alaskey (RIP to him, BTW) are in this movie as well.
Looking back on it, I *_will_* give them some credit that this is one of the more unique Santa Claus origin stories.
"We could really use THAT in Detroit!"
uh wut
You see.. He's black and Detroit is notirious for being... a crime ridden slum made up of the ruins of the American Auto Industry.... and has a high black population...
So just some casual racism
@@1Hol1Tiger extreeeeemely casual, at that
There's a reason these bad, obscure animated movies usually have that "clay" or "rubber" 3D look.
It comes down to high end vs. cheaper computer graphics. That look requires far less textures and other graphical effects per frame to render, such as elaborate shading & physics models, which means it can be done on way cheaper systems in a reasonably short time. Bad CGI often has a similar plastic effect, and for the same reasons.
Zack Yezek thanks for the info I didn't know that
In their favour, they probably only could borrow a little bit of money so they saved it by making the models look plastic.
Zack Yezek shouldn't those cheaper models slowly catch up to high end though? I mean look at how computer tech has progressed since TOY STORY 1, and yet graphics systems are being used that somehow still appears to be 25-30 yrs behind. I can imagine in 2050 movies will still look pre 2000.
I thought they were trying for a Rankin Bass look, LOL
Huh.. I kind of assumed in this case that the Clay-Like Design were meant to be an homage to the Rankin-Bass Claymation movies, but I guess I was giving them more credit
21:25 ROCKET MAN, I’M BURNING OUT MY FUSE OUT HERE ALONE!!!! XD
It had to be done Merry Xmas 2019
Wait... did Star wars :the rise of skywalker steal this scene (20:15) ,it is exactly the same
"talking Stonehenge heads?"
Easter island Saber... Not even close.
@@AngelBunnyOrAtLeastOneOfEm Same thing
1:28 I believe you mean Easter Island heads? Stonehenge doesn’t have heads.
THANK YOU
Someone pointed it out
🗿
and they aren’t from fiji
I was about to say the same thing.
We came from the 🗿🥜
23:39 growing up playing the original game I remember seeing things that my 5 year old eyes should not have seen, such as the elves taunting you by pulling their pants down and smacking their butts. You could also set them on fire so they'd be mostly naked, so the humor is par for what the games had.
2:58
Nobody:
No one:
Not a single soul:
Not even the gods themselves:
Captions: why Luigi number two
The video: waluigi number one
"Ho, Ho, Ho, So you think you know how Santa Claus became Father Christmas?"
No shit Sherlock, I thought he became from CocaCola.
Technically yes.
They had a song... about slavery....
10/10
Voiced by Starscream!
SLAVES built the pyramids
SLAVES built the Parthenon
SLAVES built America
SLAVES this is your song
Thank you SLAVES
I swear I literally *DIED* at 16:19
The Detroit quote at 22:02 came out of nowhere.
It's so awful it makes the Angry Birds movie look good.
Lizafoot For5 I liked that movie but it is just my opinion
Woah, That Probably Took a lot to say dude.
at least it's better than the emoji movie
asseDing Q Not really if you mean elf bowling the movie at least the emoji movie has some OK animation
@@cradica it's a surprisingly competent movie with some less than competent subtext. juvenile but entertaining enough.
Hey, I know Tom Kenny is a living legend, but you failed to mention that Santa himself was voiced by the late Joe Alaskey, best known as the voice of several Looney Toons characters for MANY years.
I thought he sounded familiar. Which ones?
I remember he was one of Mel Blanc's replacements, specifically, so in addition to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, he voiced many of the other characters he had voiced in the past. I also know he was the voice of Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures, so there's that.
Lou Pickles from _Rugrats_
Papyrus?
4:41
20:20 Elf Wars
Episode: 1
The Phantom Dingle
Next you should review "I downloaded a ghost" by Disney. It's cringy and bad acting and bad effects and kinds ripping off home alone. It also includes my Drama teacher as the reporter guy near the end
Avocado
You’re making that up!
@@victorhernandez8723 I swear I'm not. Send me your discord and I can show you my drama teacher. Look for the movie and look for the reporter guy. I can send you a picture
@@AvocAdo5096 same here
th-cam.com/video/01Gc3h_WCqo/w-d-xo.html
Well, Disney Channel is often full of crap, I prefer Classic Disney
Dingle looks like Tingle mixed in with Waluigi.
wa
*wahaha*
Waluigi where were *YOU* in mariokart 7????!?!?!?!?!??!
Tinguluigi-
Hwee Hwee
7:24 - also acceptable would have been Princess Bride's Valerie: "LIAR!"
19:37 *You know what he said, Saber.*
Is there even any reason why Dingle had to be Santa's brother and not just his conniving first mate?
Dingle Kringle. Kris Kringle's brother.
Dingle is Santa's brother from the actual Elf Bowling game...well from the second game
@@filletofish2200 Thank you
Dingle is Santa's brother from the second game!
Okay, I get that they needed to take their mind off Mrs Obama’s death, but why did the Penguins of Madagascar choose to be in this film?
Daniel Thomas WAIT WHAT
Floornine don’t worry, she’s still kicked in her new golden knee-high boots
@@TheFlamingDoh2 yes, Trump said the N-word.
MRS. OBAMA! GET DOWN!
Daniel Thomas wait what?😅
Ah yes, I remember Squidward's house being playable in a Christmas bowling PC game from 1998.