Summary
When kids become so bratty and self-centered that Santa's elves go on strike, Santa, in desperation, must bring six unscrupulous youths to his boot camp to help save Christmas.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Kids
Skip it if
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 39GoodWatch 40
Letterboxd · 268 ratings2.6/5
Audience score33%
IMDb3.1
Running time
1 h 33 min
A typical length for adventure movies, −10 min on the typical 103
typical 10393Half of all adventure movies run 93–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 136 countries
+126Released
2016
November 15, 2016
10 years ago
Genres
AdventureFamilyComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 8 more14 people
- Kyla-DrewAccounting Elf
- Elijah MarcanoBad Boy Arlen
- Storm ReidSparkle
- Eric RobertsMall Santa
- JSJustin ScottMarketing Elf
- DKDoug KayeSanta Claus
- William J. HarrisonDrake
- Trey BestCedric
- Erika BiermanTwinkle
- Madison ThompsonTech Elf
Lily KeeneGirl on Stairs
Cody SulekBoyfriend- LGLucy GebhardtGirl on Santa's Lap
Sarah BorneGirl with Itching Powder
Directing · 1
- Ken Feinberg Director
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