Fun fact: Tom Kenny said at a convention that when he got a call to do Elf Bowling, he'd never heard of the recording location. He drove around LA and wound up in a sketchy neighborhood. The "recording studio" turned out to be some rundown apartment building.
@@ariannewingard1660 I feel bad for Kenny. Imagine never knowing where you are recording this movie you are starring in and then ending up in a creepy area in LA. Must have been a nightmare to even find the place.
That kinda reminds me how the late Anne Bancroft had to record in a rundown house to record her lines for Delgo. Her lines even had the sounds of toilets flushing in the background. Gun to my head, I am NOT making this up.
Elf Bowling: The Movie wanted to attend Elf Practice as (completely) little as possible! In fact, that is an understatement because it makes perhaps all other films Diva reviewed on Musical Hell look like musical heaven (no pun intended).
List of ten-sin musicals: 2012: From Justin to Kelly 2013: Love Never Dies 2014: Spice World 2016: Glitter 2017: Beauty and the Beast the Enchanted Christmas 2019: The Mighty Kong 2019: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2019: Elf Bowling: The Movie
This is the first of those ten-sin musicals where I feel like Diva was wasting her time on the movie. Christi Estele has a more thorough understanding of what makes musicals tick than anyone else I've seen reviewing bad musicals, and while her film studies can't compare to the likes of Lindsay Ellis or Dan Olsen, she's more than competent in that regard. This movie doesn't need that kind of skill to explain why it doesn't work, and it feels like the only thing Diva brought to the table that a more typical reviewer couldn't is examples of things that do X better and a calm demeanor. And hell jokes.
You know what’s funny Grizelda and Veronica Kim were voiced by “Jill Talley” who voiced Karen in Spongebob, and Dingle was voiced by “Tom Kenny” who is the voice of Spongebob. I’m guessing that this movie was so bad for Tom Kenny that he actually needed his wife to help him with this!!
That's an insult to racist uncles because at least they don't think up something into that. Whether they deserve to be associated to this movie is up to individuals
So here's a timeline of all of Diva's 9-10-sin reviews 2012: From Justin to Kelly 2013: Love Never Dies 2013: The King and I 2014: Spice World 2015: Tentacolino 2015: Walking on Sunshine 2015: Burlesque 2016: Glitter 2016: Christmas is Here Again 2017: Strange Magic 2017: Sci-fi High: The Movie Musical 2017: Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Chrismas 2018: Sextette 2019: The Mighty Kong 2019: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells 2019: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2019: Elf Bowling: The Movie In total, that's 17 reviews. That's 20% of films she has reviewed that she has qualified as "unusually awful" or anger-inducing terrible.
You know what’s funny? When the elves were demanding to have fun at work, they were behind by six billion units (or the entire human population at the time). But under hypnosis, they were on schedule.
If I was analyzing this movie as a serious work of art, I'd point out that the implication is that bowing to union demands for decent worker treatment makes productivity collapse to basically nothing. But for all the criticism this movie has earned, intentionally hypercapitalist theming is not among them.
@@DrGregoryHouseIT What do you mean? Gorgeous Diahann Carroll is the only redeeming part of the special, besides Bea Arthur and Jefferson Starship. Just imagine she is talking and singing to you, instead of Chewbacca's grandpa - or whoever he is. She just wants to spend _this minute now_ with YOU. Damn, she was so amazing.
You know what I've realized? They were trying to be Shrek with a holiday theme. The crass jokes, the modern ideas, the music, it all makes sense. This was a rip off of Shrek.
@@eoghanfeighery7383 it's funny because this came out the same year as Shrek the Third, which permanently dented Shrek's reputation despite the decent follow-up that was Shrek forever after.
@@tokubrony9447 It does have songs, but the movie's only, like, 47 minutes long. She might not be able to get a full episode out of it (not that I wouldn't like to see her try).
@@jeremyusreevu237 It's a hipster thing. I like Comic Sans in the right context. Apparently, it's a font that is easier to read and process for people with dyslexia, too. How can anybody hate on that?
I can only imagine that Tom Kenny (voice of Dingle) only did this movie because he made a bet with Bill Faderbakke over whether he can star in something worse than Atlantis Squarepantis
As for Dingle (*shudder* the name alone sickens me to my flu-ridden core), you know a villain played by Tom Kenny's bad when the Ice King, Mumbo and Common frigging COLD look more dignified!
This isn't a musical though. The songs don't help intensify the events of the story or grant insight into the internal lives of the characters. They just eat up time and attempt to provide "humour" and "comedy".
13:56 As someone who used to work as a cart handler for that store, I remember those videos they had me watch and they were cringy (say for the intense Avoid, Deny, Defend video).
I also worked for them one summer lo these many years ago. A lot of the training material was creepy in retrospect--in addition to the anti-union propaganda, there was the whole "Why Sam Walton Was the Greatest Human Being Who Ever Lived" angle...
@Rebecca Woolf You're right, but still, so sad since there are so many other movies that he could get money from that aren't nearly as awful as this one
For those genuinely curious: low pay, short time period, apathy from the low and the high (as in, the producers cared less than usual.) A genuine bafflement how to adapt the games at all, and just a strong urge to get it done and move on. This movie actually seemed too pathetic to hurt to work on. If I was anyone involved, I would be planning my future actions while working on this obvious turd, and the lack of focus couldn't help things.
So the makers of this..."film", decided that it was appropriate to have (among other things) gratuitous amounts of fart jokes, poop jokes, an implied rape, a thinly veiled reference to STDs, a scene of a penguin posing for an adult magazine, the word "sucks", and abundant amounts of cringe-worthy stereotypes, but drew the line at a character mentioning a type of alcohol?
Just when I think you would cover Grandma got run over by a reindeer, or the live-action year without a Santa Claus adaptation, you always find a Christmas musical that’s way worse.
would love to see you review the Magic Riddle. it´s a strange animated movie with 16 tracks in it but it has alot of heart in it, even with all the flaws.
I remember playing the Flash game and liking it. There is one little secret in the game that is hard to do and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any TH-cam videos of people playing the game ever do and that is if you throw the ball a certain way so that it goes flying off the side and into the air while the deer is on screen, the ball will come crashing down on the deers’s head and kills it and it’s body just lies there until the game is over
You'd think they'd have bowling horseshoes or something. Yeah, it's probably painful and inconvenient to hammer them on and pry the off, but it's _Hell._
Hey musical fans, just an FYI that the Spongebob Bway musical is going to be broadcast on cable sometime this winter (I would love your honest opinion!)
Amberwing Tundrawing Do you mean the TV special? I don't remember that being a musical. About that TV special: I remember Cousin Mel calling Grandma "Grandma" and Grandma calling her "Cousin Mel". Que? In what world is your granddaughter also your cousin?
@@MelanieNLee it was a musical, the songs were based on the Christmas album with the same name. Also I'm not sure why everyone called her Cousin Mel, maybe that's her full name?
Amberwing Tundrawing Cousin Mel was mentioned in the original song, playing cards with Grandpa. (The cousin's gender hadn't been specified.). She was/became female in the TV special. I doubt that "Cousin" is part of her given name. She is probably Melanie, Melissa, Melinda, Melba, or a name like that.
Loved this, haha. What a bizarre mess that is as cringe-inducing as it is disturbing. You should do Rapsittie Street Kids next, haha. And yes, there is a sic in there.
I have a suggestion for an upcoming court case: an Australian animated movie from 1991 called "The Magic Riddle." It blends a bunch of fairy tales together and it goes horribly wrong. Nothing makes sense. Quest for Camelot makes more sense. I don't know if it could be considered the Aussie counterpart to Tentacolino though.
@Elsie Agreed. There was no cleanup and it was so dirty and rough. Cleanup is why Disney’s Snow White which predates the magic riddle by 54 years still looks pretty and polished. Also the terrible lip sync hung despite presumably having English as its original language. And some animation bloopers. Also the awful songs that are often pointless or confusing (like when Philip asks where Cindy came from when they were both just at her house)
*spits out eggnog* *IT'S A MUSICAL? THAT MAKES IT WORSE!* Also, might I add that the villain is a deadbeat guy named Dingle? Honestly, you could have just given me Elves Bowling and it'd be better than this.
Maybe I should also nominate 2017's A Christmas Story Live musical from Fox, because it's such a missed opportunity. The original cast album is one of my favorite Broadway scores of recent years, but they made too many songs overblown production numbers ("The Genius On Cleveland Street" works better as a solo number and character establishing song for the Old Man, not as some roided-up fantasy sequence), replaced a good song with a so-so one, and shortened other good ones. Then again, not having seen the stage production as yet, I'm not sure how many of its faults come from the TV version's writers and how many come from the revisions to the show. I understand they released the cast album too soon, and the show underwent some serious revisions after its release, changing several lyrics (including the entire opening number's) and adding at least one song which was spotlighted on the Tonys, but isn't on the album.
I've a proposal for you, Diva! The 1955 film adaptation of Guys and Dolls. Not a bad production by any means, but it's a case I think worthy of review. (Marlon Brando can't sing.)
I just got the notification for your roasting of "Elf Bowling: The Movie" a minute ago. EDIT- 2:44 P.M.: *finishes episode 20 minutes later* I haven't watched this movie in full and yet it made me regret some of my life choices!
This reminded me of the Barbie animated movies that came out in the early 2000's. I don't know if it was the poor animation or awkward musical numbers, but all I can think of is Barbie in the Nutcracker lol.
Here's A List Of My Favorite Tom Kenny Characters Going For A Lynch Mob On Killing Dingle: Valhallen (Dexter's Laboratory) Dog (Catdog) Ratbert (Dilbert) Spyro The Dragon (Spyro The Video Game) Spongebob Squarepants (Spongebob Squarepants) Scaramouche (Samurai Jack) Mumbo Jumbo (Teen Titans) Fixit (Teen Titains) Klofange (Xiaolin Showdown) Eduardo (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends) Commander Peepers (Wander Over Yander) Oswald Cobblepot "The Penguin" (The Batman) Clayface's Hand (Harley Quinn) Simon Petrikov "Ice King" (Adventure Time) Rabbit (Winnie The Pooh)
I agree with you Diva on just about everything on Elf Bowling:The Movie,IT'S SO COMPLETELY UNGODLY HORRIBLE!! Also while I'm commenting I wanna ask you Diva. Have you ever thought of bringing up a sub-series of this called Musical Heaven where you review all the good musical films and highlight the 'Wins' in those movies? Because I was thinking about that to myself for sometime,so what do you think about that idea of mine?
Honestly, I think saying that 8-year-olds wrote this movie is an insult! 8-year-olds could write MUCH better than this shit! All joking aside though, while this whole thing about crude and vulgar humor does tend to be a preliminary problem with kids' media, I find it's just as (if not more) abundant in adult-oriented media (particularly with a lot of Adult Swim "comedies")! 13:45 Also, did it not occur to Dingle that he might want to make sure that Lex was INSIDE the building, and not want to slam the door to let the curtain go down and reveal that the building is a sweat shop, that way no one would be onto his plans and...I've already put a lot more thought into this movie than any of the writers have just on that one detail alone! And not to go off on any tangents regarding this being another 10-sins case, but I certainly would have found that 10th sin justifiable, not only because it just draws out this painful movie by completely repeating a sequence that already happened, but also because these two idiots pretty much just wasted their last minutes of Christmas-delivery on this one game AFTER THE F*CKING ELVES HAVE ALREADY MASSIVELY PROCRASTINATED ON MAKING TOYS!!!
Aww man, they dragged Tom Kenny into this, didn't they? :( No really, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants (among other voices) that got stuck with the role of Dingle
I've watched many reviews for this movie, yet the only person whose mentioned the slavery villain song is Saberspark. Does anyone know if the song was cut out of the movie after some sort of controversy?
10:42 Geez, only a little more than halfway through the review and we've already got seven sins here. How bad do you have to be that all your problems are apparent this early on?
I saw that there was a trailer on TH-cam for that, but I think it was a parody. (That's what I THINK anyways, I didn't actually watch it for myself, but I'd honestly be very surprised if we get a live-action Swan Princess that ISN'T a low-budget fanmade project.)
Fun fact: Tom Kenny said at a convention that when he got a call to do Elf Bowling, he'd never heard of the recording location. He drove around LA and wound up in a sketchy neighborhood. The "recording studio" turned out to be some rundown apartment building.
I am not surprised by this considering the quality of the product
@@ariannewingard1660 I feel bad for Kenny. Imagine never knowing where you are recording this movie you are starring in and then ending up in a creepy area in LA. Must have been a nightmare to even find the place.
@@sketchflux To paraphrase John Mulaney: "that sounds like how a lot of kidnappings begin"
That kinda reminds me how the late Anne Bancroft had to record in a rundown house to record her lines for Delgo. Her lines even had the sounds of toilets flushing in the background.
Gun to my head, I am NOT making this up.
Where was this?
Looks like this movie didn’t go to Elf Practice
WHY WEREN'T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE?!
@@josephrowe849 Exactly!
@@josephrowe849 I was sleeping. Fuck work!
Andrew Kim Your comment is God
Elf Bowling: The Movie wanted to attend Elf Practice as (completely) little as possible! In fact, that is an understatement because it makes perhaps all other films Diva reviewed on Musical Hell look like musical heaven (no pun intended).
Isn’t this the one where Tom Kenny sings ‘Slavery makes the world go round’?
Juliet Walnoha that is correct 😅
Oh no, it’s even worse than I remembered! Yuck, just disgusting. 1/10 movie.
wHAT
Kind of disappointed that she just skipped over it completely.
Tom Kenny..please,just..why?
List of ten-sin musicals:
2012: From Justin to Kelly
2013: Love Never Dies
2014: Spice World
2016: Glitter
2017: Beauty and the Beast the Enchanted Christmas
2019: The Mighty Kong
2019: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
2019: Elf Bowling: The Movie
yep
Geez, 2019 really is the worst year for her
@@g_hyperstar3609 is it
This is the first of those ten-sin musicals where I feel like Diva was wasting her time on the movie. Christi Estele has a more thorough understanding of what makes musicals tick than anyone else I've seen reviewing bad musicals, and while her film studies can't compare to the likes of Lindsay Ellis or Dan Olsen, she's more than competent in that regard. This movie doesn't need that kind of skill to explain why it doesn't work, and it feels like the only thing Diva brought to the table that a more typical reviewer couldn't is examples of things that do X better and a calm demeanor. And hell jokes.
2019 has been on FIRE! 🔥
You know what’s funny
Grizelda and Veronica Kim were voiced by “Jill Talley” who voiced Karen in Spongebob, and Dingle was voiced by “Tom Kenny” who is the voice of Spongebob.
I’m guessing that this movie was so bad for Tom Kenny that he actually needed his wife to help him with this!!
"WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL "
- Santa
The elf bowling movie only has time for high brow humor like this.
You realize the producers of this movie are likely someone's racist uncles, right?
That's an insult to racist uncles because at least they don't think up something into that. Whether they deserve to be associated to this movie is up to individuals
And then they let their 8-year-old kids write all the fart jokes.
@@cursedalien yep
Like my own maternal uncle Christopher Glen Alan Laaksoharju Stark!
@@kieranstark7213 ok
So here's a timeline of all of Diva's 9-10-sin reviews
2012: From Justin to Kelly
2013: Love Never Dies
2013: The King and I
2014: Spice World
2015: Tentacolino
2015: Walking on Sunshine
2015: Burlesque
2016: Glitter
2016: Christmas is Here Again
2017: Strange Magic
2017: Sci-fi High: The Movie Musical
2017: Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Chrismas
2018: Sextette
2019: The Mighty Kong
2019: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells
2019: Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
2019: Elf Bowling: The Movie
In total, that's 17 reviews. That's 20% of films she has reviewed that she has qualified as "unusually awful" or anger-inducing terrible.
Yay math
And four of these came from the same year!
@@NebLleb Who knew that 2019 would end up being such a sinful year for her? 😆
Awww man I actually enjoyed Burlesque and The King and I (I’m assuming she’s talking about the animated movie).
What about the The Nutcracker movie? That commited all of the sins.
Lucifer: Just to be clear I had nothing to do with this.
Carl Thomas Williams Jr. "Now that is one big pile of sh*t." - Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park.
Crowley: Takes credit for it
Even Tom (one of the VAs) noted how dodgy this was when he got called into voice act. He literally ended up in someone's basement.
You know what’s funny? When the elves were demanding to have fun at work, they were behind by six billion units (or the entire human population at the time). But under hypnosis, they were on schedule.
If I was analyzing this movie as a serious work of art, I'd point out that the implication is that bowing to union demands for decent worker treatment makes productivity collapse to basically nothing. But for all the criticism this movie has earned, intentionally hypercapitalist theming is not among them.
Of all the reviews of this movie I've seen, this is the only that made me realize this abomination is a musical
I like how there's many scenes in this where our characters look like rendered action figures, especially the girl and her hair.
The sad thing is, if they'd deliberately gone with that as an aesthetic, it might have worked.
If they were actions figures that could be sold in stores, that’s be the only good thing to come from this...movie...
I don't know if I should blame the shaders or the (lack of) hair rigs.
The characters in The Lego Movie look less plastic than this, and they are literally plastic.
Sorry. I'm going to watch something with dignity to calm my nerves.
"STIR WHIP! STIR WHIP! WHIP WHIP STIR! WHOAAA!"
I hate that I know what you're referencing
It’s because of TH-cam reviews.....
Even with the Wookie VR porn, It's still a more dignified watch.
Well of course THAT has dignity! At least that was smart enough to get Bea Arthur
@@DrGregoryHouseIT What do you mean? Gorgeous Diahann Carroll is the only redeeming part of the special, besides Bea Arthur and Jefferson Starship. Just imagine she is talking and singing to you, instead of Chewbacca's grandpa - or whoever he is. She just wants to spend _this minute now_ with YOU.
Damn, she was so amazing.
Should've had 11 sins. You forgot the infamous "Slavery" song.
Jacob Coburn if she had mentioned that, TH-cam would have a heart attack.
When there will ever be a day when Musical Hell gives 10+ sins to a film she reviews on her regular series???
Happens to be sometime after the 2010s.
With lyrics such as: “Slavery makes the world goes around, it’s easy enough to see”, how could you go wrong?
No. It's better we never acknowledge its existence.
The fucking *what*
I was hoping you'd do "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" but this is just as irritating.
At least the animation in that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out. Usually.
@Rebecca Woolf YES.
But how many musical numbers does it have? I only recall two, including the title song.
@@QJ89 Close enough for government work.
Fingers crossed Diva does that for this year. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
You know what I've realized? They were trying to be Shrek with a holiday theme. The crass jokes, the modern ideas, the music, it all makes sense. This was a rip off of Shrek.
6 years too late.
@@eoghanfeighery7383 it's funny because this came out the same year as Shrek the Third, which permanently dented Shrek's reputation despite the decent follow-up that was Shrek forever after.
@@Treeeee2008 Seems Shrek's reputation is pretty salvaged thanks to Puss in Boots. I've seen a lot of people excited for Shrek 5
The penguins failing at dancing during the villain “song” hard me snickerimg
Now prepare for Elf Bowling: The Game: The Movie: The Game.
Elf Bowling: The Game: The Movie: the Official Comic Book Adaptation
With Knuckles
"Gutter ball!"
The Theme Park
You know what would be cool for next Christmas? Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa. Hope you give that a good burning. 😈
Uhm, not a musical.
@@MrKlausbaudelaire I thought it was. There are poorly done songs in it. Not counting every time Walter Jones raps.
@@tokubrony9447 well, there are... I think four songs, so yea, it fits for a Musical Hell, plus I would love to see Diva's reaction to the grandma xD
@@tokubrony9447 It does have songs, but the movie's only, like, 47 minutes long. She might not be able to get a full episode out of it (not that I wouldn't like to see her try).
@@brightwriter419 No no, please no! That's too cruel, even for her!
As someone who grew up as an avid Elf Bowler, I am both gleeful and horrified that this was turned into a bad animated movie musical. Thank you, Diva.
Why is Santa married to a disney-esque 16 looking girl?
Same reason Santa in the movie Fred Claus is married to a blonde supermodel!
Hmmph-She must be one of those "Aging gracefully/As she gets older,she gets/stays/still looks young"-Elfin types,perhaps?
Might be related to the fact that he's always spying on minors
The piece de resistance as it were: that elf picket sign is in comic sans
Why the hell do so many people hate Comic Sans?
@@jeremyusreevu237 It's a hipster thing. I like Comic Sans in the right context. Apparently, it's a font that is easier to read and process for people with dyslexia, too. How can anybody hate on that?
I can only imagine that Tom Kenny (voice of Dingle) only did this movie because he made a bet with Bill Faderbakke over whether he can star in something worse than Atlantis Squarepantis
He voiced Rapple too
I want to imagine he was forced to take the contract after losing a bet that involved bowling. And cheating in the process, of course.
Well, "this one involves pirates!" is now a phrase I'm gonna be saying all too often. Whoops!
As for Dingle (*shudder* the name alone sickens me to my flu-ridden core), you know a villain played by Tom Kenny's bad when the Ice King, Mumbo and Common frigging COLD look more dignified!
Likes bowling in his 'spare' time? I see what you did there.
No matter how many times I see someone on TH-cam review this movie, I keep finding something bad about this movie I hadn't noticed before.
You mean like the fact that pirates are inexplicably in the Arctic which at that point in global history would've been nearly impassable with ice?
11:51 Moses from "Joshua and the Promised Land" approves of your scenery chewing there, Santa.
A fellow Saber fan I see.
Diva: "This is the bottom of the barrel of Christmas movies." Rapsittie Street Kids: "Hold my beer."
Well, Rapsittie Street Kids had its flaws, but at least it wasn’t blatantly racist.
@@tsifirakiehl4250 I guess it depends on what people consider “bottom of the barrel.”
"Oh look! It's reviewing itself in song!" I goddamn lost it xD xD xD
9:01 "Get his hands on her strudel"
I have some... very uncomfortable images drifting through my mind right about now.
Never knew this was a musical. Can't wait for that Doctor Dolittle burning in 2020!!!
Me neither. I been waiting for that one!
This isn't a musical though. The songs don't help intensify the events of the story or grant insight into the internal lives of the characters. They just eat up time and attempt to provide "humour" and "comedy".
@@johnvinals7423 Essentially an animated Star Wars Holiday Special. With a shitload of unnecessary songs.
@@litlblkhouse That's why this next review is gonna be so beautiful!
"A white beard to deliver them to the promised land."
So The Land of Milk and Cookies? XD
I think The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is the definitive backstory to the jolly old elf.
13:56 As someone who used to work as a cart handler for that store, I remember those videos they had me watch and they were cringy (say for the intense Avoid, Deny, Defend video).
I also worked for them one summer lo these many years ago. A lot of the training material was creepy in retrospect--in addition to the anti-union propaganda, there was the whole "Why Sam Walton Was the Greatest Human Being Who Ever Lived" angle...
It’s Walmart. EVERYTHING is cringy
@@MusicalHell Anti Union Propaganda?
I'm shocked you didn't give this 11 sins.
Would Sin #11 be the misuse of Tom Kenny? (Dingle Kringle and Rappel)
@@SEGASister Of course! It wasting someone's talent, in this case the voice of Spongebob.
@@SEGASister he voiced that Dingle? How can such a talented actor voice in such an awful movie???
@Rebecca Woolf You're right, but still, so sad since there are so many other movies that he could get money from that aren't nearly as awful as this one
This film is such a waste of Tom Kenny, Jess Harnell and Martin Olson... the latter did writing for Rocko's Modern Life! How did he stoop this low?
Even Olivia Olson's father is involved in this unwatchable abomination shat by pirates with bad stomach ache
Wait did Jess Harbell actually voice a character in this shit?
@@cagefreeowl843 No, he wasn't in this.
For those genuinely curious: low pay, short time period, apathy from the low and the high (as in, the producers cared less than usual.) A genuine bafflement how to adapt the games at all, and just a strong urge to get it done and move on.
This movie actually seemed too pathetic to hurt to work on. If I was anyone involved, I would be planning my future actions while working on this obvious turd, and the lack of focus couldn't help things.
7:45 The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends in a nutshell.
The Swan Princess sequels in a nutshell.
15:17 It's likely the elf(not bothering to check his name) used the magic ball so much that some of its magic transferred into him
Elves need to be happy
Their hearts must fill with joy
For only a happy elf
Is contractually obligated to make toys
So the makers of this..."film", decided that it was appropriate to have (among other things) gratuitous amounts of fart jokes, poop jokes, an implied rape, a thinly veiled reference to STDs, a scene of a penguin posing for an adult magazine, the word "sucks", and abundant amounts of cringe-worthy stereotypes, but drew the line at a character mentioning a type of alcohol?
Absolutely the most how did this get made thing you've ever covered. I'm speechless
....they made a movie of that floppy disk game?
why? in CG no less. WHY? WHO ASKED FOR THIS? NOBODY WHO PLAYED IT WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR THIS!
Also, to quote the Isle of Rangoon: "For a movie called Elf Bowling, it has, and I apologize in advance, NO BALLS!"
That joke was better than anything in this “movie.”
6:41 Worst furry porn I've ever seen
Fuckin’ Norm of the North by the infamously broken-beyond-repair Sonic fanbase would have even less worse furry porn than this!
It sounds like something The Cinema Snob would say to me.
17:40 Wait, all the slavery jokes and toilet humor was ok but not a former pirate saying "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum"?
Just when I think you would cover Grandma got run over by a reindeer, or the live-action year without a Santa Claus adaptation, you always find a Christmas musical that’s way worse.
@brandon roberts Correction It is a nice special that is a better moral than say Noel. God that bulb was so fucking annoying.
I completely forgot about the live action YWASC! I remember quickly glancing at it in a movie rental store and thinking "what the..."
would love to see you review the Magic Riddle. it´s a strange animated movie with 16 tracks in it but it has alot of heart in it, even with all the flaws.
As someone who's a huge fan of One Piece, hearing the elves refer to this version of Santa as "Whitebeard" just feels really wrong on multiple levels.
To reference a quote from Diva’s “Happily Ever After” review, Whitebeard? Bitch, there’s only ONE Whitebeard.
That Whitebeard would make a neat Santa
Doctor Dolittle?! YES YES YES YES!!! I was wondering when you were gonna be doing that one!! Oh yes, best way to ring in the New Year!
I remember playing the Flash game and liking it. There is one little secret in the game that is hard to do and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any TH-cam videos of people playing the game ever do and that is if you throw the ball a certain way so that it goes flying off the side and into the air while the deer is on screen, the ball will come crashing down on the deers’s head and kills it and it’s body just lies there until the game is over
I didn’t know hell allowed their bowlers to not wear bowling shoes.
Granted, the shoes probably don’t fit hoofed feet.
You'd think they'd have bowling horseshoes or something. Yeah, it's probably painful and inconvenient to hammer them on and pry the off, but it's _Hell._
@@timothymclean Horseshoes would scuff up the bowling ally
5:47 words cannot accurately describe the pain I feel watching this
Hey musical fans, just an FYI that the Spongebob Bway musical is going to be broadcast on cable sometime this winter (I would love your honest opinion!)
Mrenter’s review of this was nothing but him screaming at it with forced anger ahoy
Did Tom Kenny really have to take this part? Was Spongebob really not enough money?
I wonder if she'll ever do Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer. That movie not only has bad songs but the story and animation are also horrible
Amberwing Tundrawing Do you mean the TV special? I don't remember that being a musical.
About that TV special: I remember Cousin Mel calling Grandma "Grandma" and Grandma calling her "Cousin Mel". Que? In what world is your granddaughter also your cousin?
@@MelanieNLee it was a musical, the songs were based on the Christmas album with the same name. Also I'm not sure why everyone called her Cousin Mel, maybe that's her full name?
Amberwing Tundrawing Cousin Mel was mentioned in the original song, playing cards with Grandpa. (The cousin's gender hadn't been specified.). She was/became female in the TV special. I doubt that "Cousin" is part of her given name. She is probably Melanie, Melissa, Melinda, Melba, or a name like that.
@@MelanieNLee I know I was joking. Its probably a nickname or something
Loved this, haha. What a bizarre mess that is as cringe-inducing as it is disturbing.
You should do Rapsittie Street Kids next, haha. And yes, there is a sic in there.
I have a suggestion for an upcoming court case: an Australian animated movie from 1991 called "The Magic Riddle." It blends a bunch of fairy tales together and it goes horribly wrong. Nothing makes sense. Quest for Camelot makes more sense. I don't know if it could be considered the Aussie counterpart to Tentacolino though.
Plus the animation is atrocious!
@Elsie Agreed. There was no cleanup and it was so dirty and rough. Cleanup is why Disney’s Snow White which predates the magic riddle by 54 years still looks pretty and polished. Also the terrible lip sync hung despite presumably having English as its original language. And some animation bloopers. Also the awful songs that are often pointless or confusing (like when Philip asks where Cindy came from when they were both just at her house)
*spits out eggnog* *IT'S A MUSICAL? THAT MAKES IT WORSE!* Also, might I add that the villain is a deadbeat guy named Dingle? Honestly, you could have just given me Elves Bowling and it'd be better than this.
Oh Tom Kenny what in the world are you doing in this
Also Dingle Kringle is like a really weak precursor to Doofenshmirtz
Doctor Doof if he had Patchy the Pirate's voice
Maybe I should also nominate 2017's A Christmas Story Live musical from Fox, because it's such a missed opportunity. The original cast album is one of my favorite Broadway scores of recent years, but they made too many songs overblown production numbers ("The Genius On Cleveland Street" works better as a solo number and character establishing song for the Old Man, not as some roided-up fantasy sequence), replaced a good song with a so-so one, and shortened other good ones. Then again, not having seen the stage production as yet, I'm not sure how many of its faults come from the TV version's writers and how many come from the revisions to the show. I understand they released the cast album too soon, and the show underwent some serious revisions after its release, changing several lyrics (including the entire opening number's) and adding at least one song which was spotlighted on the Tonys, but isn't on the album.
Oh my god... Of all the things to be turned into musicals... Never... Never would have guessed...
Diva... Are You Sure This Movie Wasn't MADE in Hell? Because it sure feels like it....
I knew this movie had a few songs, but I had no idea it'd make it on this show.
at 8:22, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I've a proposal for you, Diva! The 1955 film adaptation of Guys and Dolls. Not a bad production by any means, but it's a case I think worthy of review.
(Marlon Brando can't sing.)
8:23 huh, I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
"Klaus" did the origins of Santa thing way better.
I just got the notification for your roasting of "Elf Bowling: The Movie" a minute ago.
EDIT- 2:44 P.M.: *finishes episode 20 minutes later*
I haven't watched this movie in full and yet it made me regret some of my life choices!
The Santa statue at 4:18 reminded me of the Paul Bunyan statue from It: Chapter 2 at first glance...(aside from being all-white)
Honestly, IT would probably be an awesome musical.
If they can pull off a Beetlejuice musical, then IT could totally work.
Jason Edwards I’m actually working on an IT musical on Discord.
This reminded me of the Barbie animated movies that came out in the early 2000's. I don't know if it was the poor animation or awkward musical numbers, but all I can think of is Barbie in the Nutcracker lol.
Abigail except most of those Barbie movies were actually pretty good!
Here's A List Of My Favorite Tom Kenny Characters Going For A Lynch Mob On Killing Dingle:
Valhallen (Dexter's Laboratory)
Dog (Catdog)
Ratbert (Dilbert)
Spyro The Dragon (Spyro The Video Game)
Spongebob Squarepants (Spongebob Squarepants)
Scaramouche (Samurai Jack)
Mumbo Jumbo (Teen Titans)
Fixit (Teen Titains)
Klofange (Xiaolin Showdown)
Eduardo (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)
Commander Peepers (Wander Over Yander)
Oswald Cobblepot "The Penguin" (The Batman)
Clayface's Hand (Harley Quinn)
Simon Petrikov "Ice King" (Adventure Time)
Rabbit (Winnie The Pooh)
I agree with you Diva on just about everything on Elf Bowling:The Movie,IT'S SO COMPLETELY UNGODLY HORRIBLE!!
Also while I'm commenting I wanna ask you Diva. Have you ever thought of bringing up a sub-series of this called Musical Heaven where you review all the good musical films and highlight the 'Wins' in those movies? Because I was thinking about that to myself for sometime,so what do you think about that idea of mine?
Joshua Sage I like the Musical Heaven idea!
I just happened to be bingewatching a load of episodes. What perfect timing!
Honestly, I think saying that 8-year-olds wrote this movie is an insult! 8-year-olds could write MUCH better than this shit!
All joking aside though, while this whole thing about crude and vulgar humor does tend to be a preliminary problem with kids' media, I find it's just as (if not more) abundant in adult-oriented media (particularly with a lot of Adult Swim "comedies")!
13:45 Also, did it not occur to Dingle that he might want to make sure that Lex was INSIDE the building, and not want to slam the door to let the curtain go down and reveal that the building is a sweat shop, that way no one would be onto his plans and...I've already put a lot more thought into this movie than any of the writers have just on that one detail alone!
And not to go off on any tangents regarding this being another 10-sins case, but I certainly would have found that 10th sin justifiable, not only because it just draws out this painful movie by completely repeating a sequence that already happened, but also because these two idiots pretty much just wasted their last minutes of Christmas-delivery on this one game AFTER THE F*CKING ELVES HAVE ALREADY MASSIVELY PROCRASTINATED ON MAKING TOYS!!!
@@MovieFan1912 ok
Sheesh...Diva...you really deserve the Medal of Honor
Has The Boss forced you to do any of the Care Bear movies yet? Because boy howdy are they a bastion of musical treasures
Aww man, they dragged Tom Kenny into this, didn't they? :(
No really, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants (among other voices) that got stuck with the role of Dingle
You should review Rapsittie Steet Kids: Believe in Santa next. That movie has worse animation somehow and is technically a musical.
I feel so bad for every animator forced to look at these hideous models for hours on end. And dear god, Tom Kenny didn't deserve this.
0:15 A demon reviews ELF BOWLING? Perfect!
Or Rankin-Bass' 1967 The Cricket On The Hearth, which is VERY loosely based on another Charles Dickens Christmas novel. It's just so incredibly weird.
I've watched many reviews for this movie, yet the only person whose mentioned the slavery villain song is Saberspark. Does anyone know if the song was cut out of the movie after some sort of controversy?
10:42 Geez, only a little more than halfway through the review and we've already got seven sins here. How bad do you have to be that all your problems are apparent this early on?
Apparently Santa likes them young. His wife looks 30 at the most.
Aiber Lane And how is she even an elf when she's taller than the others, has a different accent and we can barely see her ears?
AND HOW THE FUCK IS SHE NOT MRS. CLAUS?!?!?!?!
Speaking of The Swan Princess, I think they are doing a live action version of the film now.
I saw that there was a trailer on TH-cam for that, but I think it was a parody. (That's what I THINK anyways, I didn't actually watch it for myself, but I'd honestly be very surprised if we get a live-action Swan Princess that ISN'T a low-budget fanmade project.)
If they're supposed to be in Fiji, why are they still in long pants and coats?! They'll die of heat stroke!
This movie does get one thing right about pirates-some of them really did resell the more valuable things they stole.
6:21 Hey!!! It’s one of my favorite Thomas narrators!!!
this years christmas musical hell: Santa Claus Is Going To High School
A Diva upload takes all the suck out of a Monday.
Amen!!
Tell that to Garfield! Hopefully that will make his Monday!
This isn't the movie you'd find at the bottom of the barrel, this is the movie you'd find stained into the bottom of the barrel.
While Rapsittie Street Kids shouldn’t even be associated with the barrel.
2:50 Santa tries to "pin" the blame...ha ha, get it? Sorry just trying to make this less painful...
Now it's my turn for one of YOUR reviews to give ME PTSD...lol
Saint Nicholas wasn’t Turkish. He was Greek. The Turks weren’t in that area yet.
Oh boy, not you too! Well then here comes a Ultra Striker!!!
Me and some friends watched this as a drinking game, it was hilarious bc we drank everytime something could only be explained with magic.
Another Christmas musical film that could be interesting to see reviewed is Anna and the Apocalypse it has songs and zombies and Christmas